The British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) has issued a position statement on a number of important issues that all broadly have in common our relationship with Government and its various agencies:
• statutory regulation and the Health Professions Council
• Skills for Health’s National Occupational Standards
• evidence-based treatment and NICE guidelines
• Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
• New Ways of Working for Psychological Therapists
• the nations and regions
It has been occasioned, in part, by recent media coverage of the views of a number of psychotherapists, including some psychoanalytic psychotherapists. These views seem to share an underlying theme that an active engagement with Government and its agencies is somehow incompatible with the psychotherapeutic endeavour.
By contrast, the BPC is actively and constructively engaging with the Department of Health, the NHS and a range of government agencies around a cluster of policies and initiatives, including but not limited to statutory regulation. This statement explains our position on these interventions.
Read it on our website at http://www.psychoanalytic-council.org/main/index.php?page=14083
