Recent and current eIpnosis preoccupations include:

• Consultation opens on the State Regulation of Psychologists 21 December - 22 March. EDITORIAL, REVIEW and CONSULTATION DOCUMENT DOWNLOADS
  
  
• Health Professions Council Special #3 eIpnosis reports on iatrogenic damage due to the HPC's impermeability and unfitness for purpose.
  
  
• The Health Professions Council voted 13th December to 'consider the regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists'. Minutes | Details
  
  
• UKCP, BACP, BABCP and BPS - announce 'MOCK' Application for New Professions Membership of the HPC
  
  
• REPORT 'Savoy Conference' the NHS and the Psychological Therapies
  Start the day with a smile! The Sav**oy Declaration VIDEO
  
  
• Open Letter to the UKCP rejecting the Independent Complaints Organisation by five UKCP Member Organisations
  
  
• Recent press criticism of the IAPT/CBT nexus by Professor Andrew Samuels and an extensive response from the BABCP. Ipnosis features the correspondence, an Editorial, a Guest Editorial from Janet Low and a link to Andrew Samuels collection of CBT Articles and Documents.
  
  The first formal meeting on 17th November between BACP and UKCP plus we guess BABCP, with the Health Professions Council. First steps on the slippery slope to creative and ethical malnutrition?
  
  

For newcomers, the evolution of the psychological therapies chronicled in these pages may seem a welcome endorsement of your career choice.

You are mistaken.

State regulation is a Huge Mistake. With a toxicity that is now beginning to unfold.

The precious delights and unfoldings of personal development, not as a pre-requisite for a job, or symptom management, but for its own sake, have been over-run by business plans that exploit the innovations and discoveries of the last 50 years.

This marketized, medicalized, academicized, bureaucratized, scientized, edifice continues to evoke in eIpnosis stirrings of the subjectivity that it is designed to domesticate. Today - feelings of sadness bordering on disgust.

These echo a long-standing, deep disappointment that the psychological therapies could be so unaware, so ignorant, of the political dimensions of psychopractice, as to fail to notice that the embrace of the state would be poisonous.

An historic, and tragic, moment.

The current and recent events we report in these pages reinforce our perspective (see the Ipnosis video Love Matters*) that the regulationist's technocratic blather about psychopractice 'standards' and 'fitness to practise' is deficient in a critical, over-arching way. It doesn't anywhere include love, love being defined as seeking the flourishing of the Other, coupled necessarily with the absence of coercion and manipulation.

As an antidote to the content of the Regulation News and Views pages, the Love Matters pages continue to build and attract pointers to how human condition work can be manifest in ways that honour what we know as therapists about the human condition, flourishing and jouissance.

As before the Archive pages will contain everything that has gone before on eIpnosis and there is a comprehensive Contents Page.
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