| As eIPNOSIS has developed and the agendas of IPN and the site have changed, the front page has become over-loaded with good things. You can now find most if not all the previous contents of eIPNOSIS here. Following requests, I will try to keep them in chronogical order - latest first. As of July 2007 this page is not longer being updated. for a comprehensive and detailed listing of eIpnosis material see the CONTENTS page |
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Regulating the Psychological Therapies - From Taxonomy to Taxidermy (Mapped... measured.. captured... and stuffed?) Almost all of Ipnosis on paper—plus lots more |
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| STOP State Regulation of Counselling and Psychotherapy by Guy Gladstone 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... |
From 'Yes, But', to 'No, Unless'? Or Principled Non-Compliance? Plus marine and other metaphors for current approaches to regulatory folly. Ipnosis reflections on the Psychotherapy and Counselling Reference Group Meeting March 29 2007 For PNC and ATP! |
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Transcript of An Introduction to IPN given by Ipnosis at the March 31-April 1 2007 IPN Conference |
The Political Economy of Psychotherapy |
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The Skills for Health Competencies Consultation Letter to BACP by Arthur Musgrave |
A Belgian web-site, Plate-Forme Psysme details current continental concerns about state regulation and helpfully outlines the state of play of regulation in most of the rest of Europe. Use the Google translator for a good enough grasp of what Belgian practitioners are facing. |
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Review: Government White Paper TRUST, ASSURANCE AND SAFETY – THE REGULATION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN THE 21ST CENTURY February 21 2007 |
Dear Editor, Articles by colleagues: Andrew Cook, Julia Evans, Jill Hall, Sue Hart, Grace Lindsay, Darian Leader, Guy Gladstone, Paul Barber |
| Editorial December 20 2006 Guilt Hardens the Heart ...Continuing to be a regulationist enthusiast does appear to require a certain hardening of the heart so that the damage regulation will entail drops out of sight... |
Conference report February 19 2007 Regulation Rumourtoids 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 of the psychological Therapies... |
| Editorial November 14th 2006 An Historic Moment? Panic and despair in the mainstream psychopractice organisations at the prospect of getting their wish granted to be state regulated but not in the way (ie the HPC) that they had imagined. Alongside this, IPN participants launch research to identify practitioners who refuse to bystand state regulation of counselling and psychotherapy. |
One of the illusions that mainstream psychopractice organisations (and the DoH) diligently promote is that the field is united behind the need for state regulated accountability. Four of the many talks given at the College of Psychoanalysis Conference on Psychoanaysis and state regulation in Spring 2006 demonstrate otherwise. |
| Editorial October 28 2006: '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. As we discovered, for the organisations who have been pursuing state regulation of psychotherapy and counselling, the penny has at last dropped that it promises to be a disaster. |
Editorial August 13 2006: The Regulation Journey - From Taxonomy to Taxidermy Two strands of psychotherapy and counselling regulationism converged in July 2006. In mid-July the Foster report on non medical regulation 2006 was posted on the Internet. I’ll come to that in a moment, but first, let’s look at the letter that in common with a hundred-plus UK organizations, IPN received from Professor Louis Appleby, National Director for Mental Health.... |
| editorial April 19 2006: Speaking the Unspeakable #1 ...The political surface of psychopractice often seems too reasonable, like a client who tells of terrible exploitation and harm, without a trace of the appropriate feeling being connected. I want to try to break the surface of this reasonableness here, to speak the unspeakable. |
editorial April 19 2006 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... ...it will kill, ...is intended to kill, wildness, the esoteric, the exotic, and the unpredictable... |
| Report November 24 2006 Roles, Competencies and Complacency - mapping the territory of psychotherapy and counselling with the Department of Health At a presentation on Friday, 18th November 2005, James Pollard of UKCP and Sally Aldridge of BACP introduced the findings of the BACP/UKCP run, Department of Health [DoH] funded, research project to map UK counselling and psychotherapy. Further up the agenda was a presentation by Rosalind Mead of the DoH's take on all this. |
TAKE2 on the meeting introducing the findings of the BACP/UKCP/DofH mapping research and the DoH's plans for psychopractice regulation, Richard House, of IPN and the Research Centre for Therapeutic Education, Roehampton University, sent this report |
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UKCP/BACP Mapping research Psychotherapy and Counselling - Initial Mapping Project for the Department of Health Published in mid November, 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. |
GLACIATION - the Statutory Regulation future has arrived for any practitioner working with adoption. Will you be next? |
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Living from Love |
The state regulation of counselling and psychotherapy: sometime, never? |
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Even further... away from... the Statutory Regulation of Counselling Psychotherapy |
From June12th 2005 edition: |
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Editorial: June 12th 2005 |
First Quarter 2005 Developments in UK Psychopractice from IPNOSIS March 28th 2005 A listing, with links to relevant documents of a series of significant events in UK psychopolitics in the first quarter of 2005. |
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A DECADE OF ACCOUNTABILITY WITH HEART & ENGAGEMENT |
DSM: Diagnosing for Money and Power This well-informed critique of the Diagnostic Service Manual [DSM] by Ofer Zur, a Californian Therapist and Educator, and Nola Nordmarken, shows how the DSM has distorted and damaged psychopractice. |
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Herding Cats ... the BMJ editorial is a reminder that the pasteurised forms of counselling or psychotherapy that would result from their widespread acceptance in the NHS seem likely to take clients in the direction of a UK version of the institutionalisation that has wrecked US therapy. If you want to out what this means on the ground, take a look at Maureen O'Hara's article about it. |
Unlicencing |
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Insight into the kind of accountability that is being introduced in the medical profession. British Medical Journal article by Wendy Riley |
UKCP discussion document This document was given to ipnosis by an anonymous well-wisher. |
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Ethically Challenged Professions: Enabling Innovation and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Counselling |
Therapy Beyond Modernity: deconstructing and transcending profession-centred therapy Therapy beyond modernity sets out an 'articulated argument which questions at root the status of some of professional therapy's most hallowed and taken for granted asumptions'. It teases out the regimes of truth - the hidden assumptions of profession-centred healing practice and points to how those assumptions become self-serving and more concerned with preservation than with honest authenticity of procedure and practice. |
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'The statutory regulation of psychotherapy: still time to think again' Article by Richard House in UKCP's housemag, 'The Psychotherapist', IPNOSIS contributed to a 'follow-up debate'.after the article.. here is my paragraph, and an expanded version |
Getting Fit for Regulation |
| Statutory regulation of psychotherapy psychology and counselling: The Way Forward talk given by Anne Richardson to IPN London Gathering October 13th 2001 Selected quotes from the presentation CD of the presentation Download transcript of the presentation [67k] |
The baby and the bathwater: 'professionalisation' in psychotherapy and counselling Article by Nick Totton |
| STILL WHINGEING: The Professionalisation of Counselling by Yvonne Bates |
CONFERENCE REPORT Therapy on the Couch... a well put together and timely contribution to the debate about the regulation of psychotherapy in the UK. |
| DECONSTRUCTION, POST-(?)-MODERNISM AND THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY Richard House review article of Ian Parker (ed.), Deconstructing Psychotherapy, |
REGISTERING HUMAN NATURE Denis Postle |
| The statutory regulation of psychotherapy: still time to think again by Richard House |
Registering Psychotherapy as an institutional neurosis: or, compounding the estrangement between soul and world. By Michael Whan |
| The place of psychotherapy and counselling in a healthy European social order by Alex Howard. |
False facts(?) Article by Petruska Clarkson ....No wonder Freud wrote that he didn’t know what women wanted. He insisted: "the elimination of clitoridal sexuality is a necessary precondition for the development of femininity....." |
| Statutory Regulation by David Kalisch... |
Shrinkwrapping Psychotherapy by Denis Postle a highly sceptical look at developments in the field of psychopractice... |
| Protection not Control ...an enhanced version of Dan Hogan's articles...ee the recently added 'US case studies' and his excellent 'recommendations'... |
De-constructing Psychotherapy ...Richard House's review of the recent Ian Parker book |
| Editorial One October 1999 |
Avoid Being Shrunk in the Managed Care Era: By: Ofer Zur, Ph.D Guidelines For Non-Sexual Dual Relationships and Boundaries in Psychotherapy see also article by Ofer Zur in paperIPNOSIS |
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Alderdice) PSYCHOTHERAPY Bill: Review Denis Postle |
The Psychotherapy Bill First reading etc... |
| 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 Nick Owen |
Health Professions Council Department of Health proposals 13th March 2001 IPN,UKCP & Statutory Regulation |
| an e-mail dialogue between Nick Totton, IPN and Heward Wilkinson, Board member, UKCP |
Original theory of co-counselling & the paradigm shift A talk given at Co-counselling International Teachers meeting at Harlech, Wales, on 28 July 1995. by John Heron |
| Government Kills the Psychotherapy Bill In this extract from Hansard January 19th 2001 Lord Burlison outlines the government's position on the regulation of psychotherapy and related trades |
EDITORIAL This first edition of IPNOSIS... |
| COOPERATIVE INQUIRY Bringing Research to Life From survival and recovery to flourishing, a residential co-operative inquiry The Ardèche, France May 1998 Denis Postle |
Straw Poll Talkback phone-in Radio4 4th September 1999 |
| The Psychotherapy Bill - a BAC Statement |
Psychotherapy Bill 'Bombshell' |
| 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. |
IS THERAPY HARMFUL? "THERAPY HURTS" CONFERENCE 30.10.99 Professor Petruska Clarkson |
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