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The British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) is an association of training institutions and professional associations which have their roots in established psychoanalysis and analytical psychology. They bring together approximately 2000 registrants[1] of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy (including psychoanalysts, Jungian analysts and child psychotherapists) who as individuals become registrants of the BPC.
The BPC (then the British Confederation of Psychotherapists) was formed on 8 March 1992,[2] emerging from the United Kingdom Standing Conference for Psychotherapy (now the UKCP) as a specifically psychoanalytically-oriented organisation.
Annual register
[edit]It has an annual register of those practitioners who meet its continuing professional and fitness-to-practise standards. Promoting professional standards and acting as a voluntary regulator of the profession is a key role of the BPC.[citation needed]
The BPC accredits the trainings of its member institutions, ensuring that they meet published training standards.[citation needed] Some of these are member organisations of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Practise requirements
[edit]An individual who qualifies from one of these trainings is then eligible for entry into the BPC's register. BPC registration then continues to be governed by a range of fitness to practise requirements:
- The therapist must be a member of good standing of their own professional institution (which is a member institution of the BPC)
- They subscribe to and are governed by the BPC's published Code of Ethics
- They are regulated by the BPC's Complaints Procedure
- They must maintain an annual programme of continuing professional development (CPD), monitored and approved by the BPC, which includes consultation on their clinical work, attending lectures and courses and a broad range of professional activity.
Training and qualifications
[edit]The preparation and training for becoming a psychoanalytic psychotherapist involves undergoing analysis.[citation needed]
Safeguarding the public
[edit]The individual organisations that train psychotherapists have always been self-regulating.[citation needed] Over the last twenty years, however, there has been an increase in the number of institutions and range of psychotherapies on offer to the public.[citation needed] The British Psychoanalytic Council is one of a number of bodies which exist to protect the interests of the public by promoting standards in the selection, training, professional association and ethical conduct of psychotherapists.[citation needed] It is the primary body for psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the UK.[citation needed]
The BPC, together with each of its member institutions, aims to protect the public by setting out the appropriate standards of professional conduct, and a Code of Ethics, which describes the responsibilities of psychoanalytic psychotherapists.[citation needed] There are also comprehensive complaints and disciplinary procedures, which include the sanction of striking a practitioner off both their organisation's membership list and the BPC's Register.[citation needed] The detailed fitness to practise policies are all published on its website or are available from the BPC office.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]General:
List of BPC Member Institutions
[edit]- Anna Freud
- Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector
- Association for Psychodynamic Practice and Counselling in Organisational Settings
- Association of Jungian Analysts
- Birkbeck Counselling Association
- British Psychoanalytic Association
- British Psychoanalytical Society and the Institute of Psychoanalysis Wiki:British Psychoanalytical Society
- British Psychotherapy Foundation Wiki:British Psychotherapy Foundation
- British Psychotherapy Foundation
- Enfield Counselling Service
- Forensic Psychotherapy Society
- Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling
- Gloucestershire Counselling Service
- Manor House Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling
- North of England Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
- Northern Ireland Association for the Study of Psychoanalysis
- Scottish Association of Psychoanalytical Psychotherapists and Human Development Scotland
- Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy
- Society of Analytical Psychology Wiki: Society of Analytical Psychology
- Tavistock Relationships
- Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists
- Wessex Counselling
- West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy[3]
References
[edit]- ^ https://www.bpc.org.uk/professionals/registrants/joining-our-register/ [bare URL]
- ^ Psychiatric Bulletin, Richards and Sandler 17 (7): 440. (1993), http://pb.rcpsych.org/cgi/reprint/17/7/440
- ^ "Our Member Institutions".