The British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) is an association of training institutions and

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s which have their roots in established

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and analytical psychology. They bring together approximately 1500 practitioners 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,''Psychiatric Bulletin'', Richards and Sandler 17 (7): 440. (1993), http://pb.rcpsych.org/cgi/reprint/17/7/440 emerging from the United Kingdom Standing Conference for Psychotherapy (now the UKCP) as a specifically psychoanalytically-oriented organisation.

Annual register

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. The BPC accredits the trainings of its member institutions, ensuring that they meet published training standards. Some of these are member organisations of the

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Practise requirements

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

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* They are regulated by the BPC's Complaints Procedure * They must maintain an annual programme of

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(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

The preparation and training for becoming a psychoanalytic psychotherapist involves undergoing analysis.

Safeguarding the public

The individual organisations that train psychotherapists have always been self-regulating. 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. 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

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conduct of psychotherapists. It is the primary body for psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the UK. 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. 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. The detailed fitness to practise policies are all published on its website or are available from the BPC office.

List of BPC Member Institutions

Association for Psychodynamic Practice and Counselling in Organisational Settings

Association of Jungian Analysts

Association of Medical Psychodynamic Psychotherapists

Association of Psychodynamic Counsellors

Birkbeck Counselling Association

British Psychoanalytical Society and the Institute of Psychoanalysis
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British Psychoanalytical Society The British Psychoanalytical Society was founded by the British neurologist Ernest Jones as the London Psychoanalytical Society on 30 October 1913. It is one of two organizations in Britain training psychoanalysts, the other being the British ...

British Psychotherapy Foundation
Wiki: British Psychotherapy Foundation
Forensic Psychotherapy Society

Foundation 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

Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling

Wessex Counselling

West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy
Registrants of the BPC include:

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References

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External links

The British Psychoanalytic Council

European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector

International Psychoanalytical Association
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