The British Psychotherapy Foundation, Bpf, is the successor organisation to three former long-established British

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providers and clinical training institutions which merged in April 2013. The original constituents are the British Association of Psychotherapists, BAP (1951), The Lincoln Clinic and Centre for Psychotherapy (1968) and the London Centre for Psychotherapy, LCP, (1976). It is unique in the

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for providing treatment services for children and adults in all the psychoanalytic modalities, that is of

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ian and

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ian inspiration. It is also unique in providing professional training in those modalities within one institution and is regulated by the British Psychoanalytic Council. It has charitable status. Its current associations are: * British Jungian Analytic Association (BJAA), a member society of the International Association for Analytical Psychology * Independent Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Association (IPCAPA) * Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association (PPA)

History

Until it de-merged in 2019, the recently formed, British Psychoanalytic Association has been a fourth constituent of Bpf, (it was integral to the BAP). Bpf runs MSc and Phd programmes in ''Psychodynamics of Human Development'' with

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in Jungian and Psychoanalytic modalities. Bpf and the

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offer a four-year professional doctorate and clinical training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy or Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in

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. The Bpf is the owner, (acquired by BAP in 2006) and publisher with

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of the foremost British academic journal in the field since 1984,
The British Journal of Psychotherapy
'.

Notable members

* Rosemary Gordon * Carol Topolski * Clare Winnicott * Hester McFarland Solomon

References

External links

Bpf website

IPCAPA/UCL Doctorate in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Bpf/University of Exeter Clinical Psychotherapy training

website of the British Journal of Psychotherapy

Birkbeck MSc in the Psychodynamics of Human Development
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History

Notable members

See also

References

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