CONTENTS
GLOSSARY
FOREWORD
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: Protecting the Client Experience
PART I Waking up to the Shadow of Professionalisation
Stealing the Flame
Glacier Reaches Edge of Town
Resisting Psychotherapy Registration
How Does the Garden Grow?
Psychopractice for a Post-modern Era?
The Alchemists’ Nightmare: Gold into leadthe annexation of psychotherapy in the UK
The Rush to Professionalise: Hidden agendas
Review of Complaints and Grievances in Psychotherapy by Fiona Palmer Barnes
Regulation … By Order
Statutory Regulation: Shrink-wrapping psychotherapy
Protecting the Client’s Experience: A user guide to psychopractice
PART II Couch Wars: Defending the Walled Gardens of Professional Eden
Psychoanalysts Attempt a Regulatory Coup
Conversations About Power
Registering the Psychotherapy Bill
Registering Human Nature
Domineering, Sexist, Archaic: A Psychotherapy bill?
Psychotherapy Bill ‘Bombshell’
Fear as a Psychotherapeutic Organising Principle?
Old Drawings in New Colours: The Statutory Regulation of Psychotherapy (continued)
First Quarter 2005 Developments in UK Psychopractice
An Established Church of False Promises
Psychopractice Accountability: A practitioner ‘full-disclosure list’
PART III State Regulation of Counselling and Psychotherapy:
The End game? From Taxonomy to Taxidermy: mapped… measured… captured… and stuffed?
Rowing Away from the Statutory Regulation of Psychotherapy
UKCP/BACP Mapping Research on Psychotherapy and Counselling: Initial Mapping Project for the Department of Health
Roles, Competencies and Complacency: Mapping the Territory of Psychotherapy and Counselling with the Department of Health
What Counts as Evidence? From Survival and Recovery to Flourishinga Residential Cooperative Inquiry, May 1998
Accountability for ClientPractitioner Relationships in UK Psychopractice
Roles Analysis, Expropriation, Exclusion and Evidence
UKCP’s Love Affair with the State: The Second DecadeScience as Decoration
The UKCP is Our Shepherd, We Shall Not Want …
The Regulation Journey: From Taxonomy to Taxidermy
The Penny’s Dropped
An Historic Moment?
Guilt Hardens the Heart?
CONCLUSION: Chickens to Wed Fox and Live in Henhouse?
POSTSCRIPT: Diagnosing Rogue Status
INDEX