IPNOSIS: a journal for the Independent Practitioners Network

The BPS sign up for state regulation

State Regulation of Psychotherapy and Counselling - Statement of Opposition List of practitioners who object to SR, the list is still open, sign up!

Arthur Musgrave, IPN, letter to BACP May 2006
Letter from Arthur Musgrave to The BACP journal Therapy Today

Arthur Musgrave, IPN, letter to BACP from February 2007
about the Skills For Health Competencies Consultation

Anne Rchardson DoH, Selected Quotations from a presentation on 'Statutory Regulation of Psychotherapy and Counselling: The Way Forward', given to IPN London Gathering 13th October 2001

Andy Rogers
Letter #1 to The BACP journal Therapy Today December 2005

Andy Rogers
Letter #2 to The BACP journal Therapy Today

Alec Clark on Adoption
Alec Clark, UKCP registered Family and Systemic Therapist, sent IPNOSIS a copy of this letter to the Psychotherapist

Andrew Cook
What kind of regulatory framework do we really want to work in? A personal response to compulsory state regulation.

Anne Richardson, Article 'Getting Fit For Regulation'
Anne Richardson, Deputy Head, Mental Health Services Branch, Department of Health

Anne Richardson Extracts
The quotes below are from a transcript of the address by Ms Anne Richardson entitled 'The Significance [of SR] for the United Kingdom - A View from the Department of Health'

BACP Press release
about the pnosis

Richard House - Meeting Report
Meeting to Present the Department of Health Report on the INITIAL MAPPING PROJECT FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING, Friday 18 November 2005, held at London Voluntary Sector Resources Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London N7

Denis Postle - Shrink-Wrapping Psychotherapy
this is the original, full length version of an article based on a talk given at the British Confederation of Psychotherapists Conference 'Statutory Regulation - for or against', June 1999.

Denis Postle - Shrinkwrapping Psychotherapy
a shortened, version of an article based on a talk given at the British Confederation of Psychotherapists Conference 'Statutory Regulation - for or against', June 1999. It appears in the British Journal of Psychotherapy, 16 (3) Spring 2000

Richard House Therapy Beyond Modernity: deconstructing and transcending profession-centred therapy
Contents
Excerpt
Introduction
Quotes

Psychotherapy Bill 'Bombshell'
In this extract from Hansard January 19th 2001, Lord Wedderburn of Charlton concludes his supporting remarks on the Psychotherapy Bill with news of the government's position on the regulation of psychotherapy and related trades.

Anne Casement
Straw Poll Talkback phone-in, Radio4 September 4, 1999

An Established Church of False Promises
Ipnosis Editorial:

From Survival and Recovery to Flourishing
Bringing Research to Life, a residential co-operative inquiry, France May 1998

Colleague Contributions Articles, 2007
In the last twelve months many more practitioners have begun to realize the extent to which state regulation of the psychological therapies will damage them and the client experience. Ipnosis, weary of regulation watching, is very pleased to be able to post articles by several other practitioners...

State Regulation and Psychoanalysis: the Position of the College of Psychoanalysts
September 4th 2005 This is a statement by The College of Psychoanalysts in relation to the issue of state-regulation and psychoanalysis that was recently forwarded to IPNOSIS. I have preserved the formatting and emphasis of the sender.

BACP and UKCP Mapping Questionnaire
Transcript of the joint BACP and UKCP website questionnaire that claims to be mapping the territory of UK psychopractice on behalf of the DoH.

Dr Darien Leader College of Psychoanalysts
Review of Skills for Health Psychological Therapies Consultation
Contains a valuable account of the essentials of psychoanalytic process.

College of Psychoanalysts News March 28 2005
A UKCP registrant with concerns about current proposals for statutory regulation of psychopractice forwarded to ipnosis the following letter, dated 10th March 2005, from Jacques China, President of the College of Psychoanalysts - UK

Denis Postle Accountability for client/practitioner relationships in UK psychopractice
Document submitted to Department of Health Foster Review of non-medical regulation, 2005

Denis Postle Introduction to The Independent PractitionersNetwork [IPN] from the IPN Conference, 'Democracy and Therapeutic Practice' March 31st-April1st 2007

Denis Postle, IPN A response to The Skills for Health consultation on the development of National Occupational Standards for Psychological Therapies

Denis Postle Psychopractice Services
an example of Full Disclosure List style client information

Ethically Challenged Professions
Ethically Challenged Professions: Enabling Innovation and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Counselling Eds., Richard House & Yvonne Bates PCCS Books

'Et tu Brute': Impossible Democracy at IPN's 2007 Conference
Article by Previn Karian

Denis Postle Practitioner Full Disclosure List Proposal
January 2003

First Quarter 2005 Developments in UK Psychopractice,
from IPNOSIS March 28th 2005

Foster Report Quotes
- these selected quotes from The Foster Report are intended to convey the report's flavour, orientation and some of the policy decisions that it outlines.

From ‘Yes, But’, to ‘No, Unless’? Or PNC? – Plus marine and other metaphors for current approaches to regulatory folly.
Ipnosis reflections on the Psychotherapy and Counselling Reference Group* Meeting March 29 2007

Guy Gladstone - STOP State Regulation of Counselling and Psychotherapy
'The push towards state regulation emanates from an alliance of training and accreditation organisations (BACP and UKCP) concerned with extending control over entry into therapeutic practice.'

Guilt Hardens the Heart
Ipnosis EDITORIAL December 2006
Responses to the consultation phase of the Foster review of non medical health care professions have been with the DoH for a few weeks now. Those that Ipnosis has seen express very significant doubt about the Foster review which, as ipnosis readers will recall, doesn't mention the psychological therapies at all

Guy Gladstone UKCPLetter
Letter by Guy Gladstone, published in The Psychotherapist UKCP Summer 2006. Ipnosis readers may be interested/amused to note the excerpts from UKCP Chair Lisa Wakes' response following the letter.

HPC OpenLettert
Open Letter to professional organisations within psychotherapy and counselling about progress towards statutory regulation of psychotherapists and counsellors

HPC Special #1
Ipnosis Special - The Health Professions Council #1
Account of Ipnosis meeting with Marc Seale and Rachel Tripp of the HPC

HPC Special #2
CRITICAL REVIEW of selected HPC documents
The Health Professions Council: Creeds and Commandments of a technocratic religion

HPC Special #3
watch this space

Health Professions Council
Department of Health proposals 13th March 2001

Hansard quotes
Government Kills the Psychotherapy Bill

Heward Wilkinson/Nick TottonTotton email Chat
IPN, UKCP & Statutory Regulation
an e-mail dialogue between Nick Totton, IPN and Heward Wilkinson, Board member, UKCP XXX date

An Historic Moment?
Ipnosis EDITORIAL -
In his July 2006 letter to over a hundred stakeholder organizations, Professor Louis Appleby, Director of Mental Health UK, asked The Independent Practitioners Network [IPN] for support for the Department of Health proposals for the regulation of counselling, psychotherapy (is psychoanalysis too hot a potato to handle?).

Richard House: Critical review of British Medical Journal article - NHS psychotherapy and its discontents: finding creativity amidst the conflict
'...It would be wrong to assume that those who are sceptical about the institutional professionalisation of psychotherapy are ‘against’ any kind of accountability whatsoever; rather, we are in favour of accountability with heart, accountability that works, and accountability that is consistent with the core philosophy of the therapeutic work we do.'

Purple Santa 2006 gifts

Ipnosis Quits June12th 2005
These last few months Ipnosis has been minded to quit taking an active interest in the politics of UK psychopractice. Why? A sense of disgust that bullying and institutional turf wars continue to be features of the psychopractice landscape. As though domination games are a clinical problem when clients suffer from them but tolerable when your professional institution engages in them.

Mauro Santacatterina 1989-2005: Psychoanalysis against itself
Paper given by Mauro Santacatterina at the College of Psychoanalysts-UK International Conference PSYCHOANALYSIS AND STATE REGULATION, 31 March–1 April 2006

How to Resist State Regulation of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Some suggestions from: Jill Hall, Sue Hatfield and Grace Lindsay, IPN, Norwich

Julia Evans
Some comments on the Health Professions’ Council’s ‘In Focus’ circulation (issue 8 – December 2006)

Association for Lacanian Psychoanalysis in the UKcanCP2Foster
The Association for Lacanian Psychoanalysis in the United Kingdom
Response to Department of Health Consultation Foster Review of the Regulation of the Non-Medical Healthcare Professions

Jill Hall, Sue Hatfield and Grace Lindsay Pages

Love Matters. It does indeed. Love enables the intregration of psychology, politics, spirituality in our approach to life and work. And not least, I want to argue, therapy work

Love Matters Video
Ipnosis video Holding the Big Picture - Love Matters
- further reflections on the State regulation of the psychological therapies

MP Letter Text
Write to your MP about plans for statutory regulation of Psychotherapy and Counselling. Here are some paragraphs that might form the basis for such a letter.

UKCP/BACP Mapping Research - Brief Review and selected quotes
Published in mid November 2005, but note the date on the file '30-06-5', five months after it was delivered to the Department of Health, the interim mapping project weighs in at an onerous 82 pages.

Therapy as an institutional neurosis: or, compounding the estrangement between soul and world
Michael Whan, The Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists

Richard Mowbray
- Submission to Foster review of regulation of non-medical health-care professions 10th November 2007

NICE ReviewText
From the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Newsletter, February 2006. National Clinical Practice Guideline (NICE Guidelines on Depression)- Core Interventions in the Management of Depression in Primary and Secondary Care.

Professor Paul Barber
Keeping Psychotherapy Trainees in “Their Place” — How Training Institutions can Stifle Love and Breed Compliance

PCUK Mission Accomplished
If UKCP succeeded in 'putting the pieces together...'

Petruska Clarkson False Facts
Extract from 'War, bystanding and hate Why Category Errors are dangerous'.

Richard House/Denis Postle Presentation 'Deconstructing and Humanising the Regulatory Impulse: Directions for Mobilisation' given at the College of Psychoanalysts-UK International Conference PSYCHOANALYSIS AND STATE REGULATION, 31 March-1 April 2006

The Pennys Dropped
Ipnosis EDITORIAL
'The Penny's Dropped', so read a large sign for Maestro plastic money in Liverpool Street station as Ipnosis travelled to the October 10th meeting of the psychotherapy and counselling Reference Group, an ad hoc collection of mainstream psychopractice organisations.

Richard House - 'The Inadvisability of Statutorily Regulating Psychotherapy and Counselling: Some Cautionary Notes'
Document submitted to Department of Health Foster Review of non-medical regulation, 2005

Richard House For PNC and ATP!
Comments on the Psychotherapy and Counselling Reference Group Meeting, 29th March 2007, held at the BPS offices, 30 Tabernacle Street, London EC2

Richard House The state regulation of counselling and psychotherapy: sometime, never…?
'The institution… exercises a form of seduction by comforting [us] with its common aims, absorbing [us] with the mechanisms of its orientation towards official roles, and tempting us to relinquish [our] own free, unique individuality…

Richard House DECONSTRUCTION, POST- (?) -MODERNISM AND THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
Review of Ian Parker's Deconstructing Psychotherapy, Sage, London, 1999, 'Ian Parker has the enviable knack of producing leading-edge books which are significantly ahead of the therapy field in terms of their theoretical and practical prescience'.

Regulation Pages
Ipnosis Regulation news and views

Regulation Rumourtoids
Ipnosis EDITORIAL February 2007
Ipnosis showed up at the February 17 Guild of Psychotherapists event, 'Facing up to State Regulation'. An intriguing title for a very informative event. The three main speakers, James Antrican, chair-elect of the UKCP, Sean Ellis of the Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy [AGIP], Chair of the AP-PP Section of the UKCP, and Diana Waller of the HPC, vividly personified the respective approaches of their organizations and the meeting/Guild chair, Paul Atkinson opened by stating the Guild's opposition to State Regulation.

Roger Litten Outline for a talk at the College of Psychoanalysts-UK International Conference PSYCHOANALYSIS AND STATE REGULATION, 31 March-1 April 2006
We are faced with a move towards the state regulation
Of what are called talking therapies in this country
The question is how to oppose it

Roles Competencies and Complacency
- mapping the territory of psychotherapy and counselling with the Department of Health

Ros Mead, Department of Health, letter to the UKCP
This letter rebukes UKCP for attempting to pre-emptively define psychotherapy competencies ahead of the DoH/Skills for Health consultation process. Ros Mead asked that it be displayed on the UKCP web-site.

Rowing Away From State Regulation
A clutch of texts suggest that some psychopractice organisations might be distancing themselves from present regulation plans and the HPC in particular.

Chris Oakley - PSYCHOANALYSIS and ITS SELF MUTILATION
Paper given by Chris Oakley at the College of Psychoanalysts International Conference PSYCHOANALYSIS AND STATE REGULATION, 31 March–1 April 2006

Speaking the Unspeakable #1
The recent College of Psychoanalysts Conference on State Regulation generated an after-reaction in ipnosis that lasted several days.

Speaking the Unspeakable #2
'...Now and again I try to remind myself why I am convinced that state regulation of psychopractice is problematic and harmful to both client and practitioner interests.

Hidden behind the benign protective promises of psychopractice regulation and the reasonable voices patiently lining you up for it, is a death threat. In a vain attempt to guarantee client safety, it will kill, in the sense of 'uprooting those plants considered to be weeds', as a onetime Chair of UKCP described it, is intended to kill, wildness, the esoteric, the exotic, and the unpredictable, that are involved in the unavoidably haphazard tasks of helping people find their way out of corners into which they may have become painted.'

The Regulation Journey - From Taxonomy to Taxidermy
AUGUST 13 2006 EDITORIAL:

UKCP Discussion Document
"Organisational Development issues for the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy following the AGM 2003."
This 16pp draft document, sent anonymously to Ipnosis, had apparently been submitted to the UKCP Governing Board and amended after discussions there.

UKCP's Love Affair with the State - The Second Decade - Science as Decoration
CRITICAL REVIEW of 'DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK FOR THE IMPROVED REGULATION OF THE PROFESSION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY' UKCP submission to the Department of Health OCTOBER 2005

Ipnosis contribution to Debate on statutory regulation of psychotherapy in 'The Psychotherapist', UKCP house magazine

The UKCP is my Shepherd, We Shall Not Want...
CRITICAL REVIEW of The UKCP presentation by Heward Wilkinson at the 'Therapeutic Training after Freud' Conference, May 20 2006, at Roehampton University

Heward Wilkinson response to 'The UKCP is our Shepherd..'

The way I see it - Consultant appraisal is trying to achieve too much
Wendy Riley, Development officer, Department of Education and Professional Development, University College London, London WC1E 6BT

Alex Howard - The place of psychotherapy and counselling in a healthy European social order: further commentary on Tantam and Van Deurzen

archive02
Archive of all Ipnosis material

Nick Totton The Baby and the Bathwater
'professionalisation' in psychotherapy and counselling

BAC texts
The following statements appeared in the British Association of Counselling [BAC] May and June 2000 issues of their journal Counselling.
The Psychotherapy Bill - a BAC Statement

Ipnosis EDITORIAL #1
This first edition of IPNOSIS arises at an interesting time for IPN. Five years on, we are growing steadily. Many of us have just about have recovered from the fear that kept us locked into the agendas of professionalisation.

Original theory of co-counselling & the paradigm shift
A talk given at Co-counselling International Teachers meeting at Harlech, Wales, on 28 July 1995.

Accreditation Deja Vu - Quacks and Charlatans
Axel Munthe, A Swedish physician living in Paris in the 1880s records in his memoirs some of the scenes and events of medical practice at that time.

Daniel B. Hogan author of the 4 vol. 'Regulation of Psychotherapists'
Article extracted from MINDFIELD: Therapy on the Couch Camden Press 1999 by permission of the author.
'The US has had statutory registration for years, so there has been plenty of time to see which model works best. The answer: to both protect and serve the public, you need to control the profession's output, not input'.

Ipnosis Sound Bites
State Regulation - Keeping our eye on the ball

David Kalisch The Statutory Regulation of Psychotherapy

Ipnosis LEGAL notes

Nick Owen MORE GOLD INTO LEAD FURTHER OBSERVATIONS FROM THE ALCHEMISTS LAB. U.K. PSYCHOTHERAPY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE 1990'S.
A response to Denis Postle May 1999

Psychotherapy Bill
The Psychotherapy Bill was 'given its first reading', i.e. introduced, in the House of Lords on May 18th.