British Psychoanalytic Council

Organisation in Britain

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British Psychoanalytic CouncilPredecessor| British Confederation of Psychotherapists

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Formation| 1992
Location|

* Islington, London

Leader| Lee Smith
Website| https://www.bpc.org.uk
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Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud's couch

Concepts

* Psychosexual development
* Psychosocial development (Erikson)
* Unconscious
* Preconscious
* Consciousness
* Psychic apparatus
* Id, ego and superego
* Ego defenses
* Projection
* Introjection
* Libido
* Drive
* Transference
* Countertransference
* Resistance
* Denial
* Dreamwork
* Cathexis

Important figures

* Abraham
* Adler
* Balint
* Bion
* Breuer
* Chodorow
* Erikson
* Fairbairn
* Ferenczi
* Freud (Anna)
* Freud (Sigmund)
* Fromm
* Guattari
* Horney
* Irigaray
* Jacobson
* Jones
* Jung
* Kohut
* Klein
* Kristeva
* Lacan
* Laing
* Laplanche
* Mahler
* Rank
* Reich
* Spielrein
* Stekel
* Strachey
* Sullivan
* Winnicott
* Žižek

Important works

* The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)
* The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901)
* Three Essays on the Theory
of Sexuality (1905)

* Psychology of the Unconscious (1912)
* Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
* The Ego and the Id (1923)
* Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)
* The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
* The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (1964)
* Anti-Oedipus (1972)
* The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)

Schools of thought

* Adlerian
* Ego psychology
* Jungian
* Lacanian
* Interpersonal
* Intersubjective
* Marxist
* Object relations
* Reichian
* Relational
* Self psychology

Training

* Boston Graduate School of
Psychoanalysis

* British Psychoanalytic Council
* British Psychoanalytical Society
* Columbia University Center for
Psychoanalytic Training and Research

* International Psychoanalytical Association
* World Association of Psychoanalysis
* List of schools of psychoanalysis

See also

* Child psychoanalysis
* Depth psychology
* Psychodynamics
* Psychoanalytic theory

* Psychology portal

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The British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) is a UK-wide umbrella association of training institutions and professional bodies providing psychotherapy services to the public, mainly in the private sector. As implied in the title their therapeutic approaches are guided by analytical psychology and the psychoanalytic schools of psychology and treatment. It is a registered charity (number: 1185487).

## History

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The formation of the BPC dates back to 8 March 1992, when it broke away from the United Kingdom Standing Conference for Psychotherapy, currently the UKCP, as the then British Confederation of Psychotherapists with its firm allegiance to a psychoanalytically oriented understanding of the mind and of human behaviour. At that stage it represented up to one thousand clinical practitioners, members of organisations working independently or employed in NHS mental health services, in Child Guidance clinics, or special schools.[1] Since then, the member organisations of the BPC have expanded to comprise some 2,000 registered clinicians.[2][failed verification]

## Services

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The BPC accredits the trainings of its member institutions, ensuring that they meet published training standards.[citation needed] Some of these are also member organisations of the International Association for Analytical Psychology or the International Psychoanalytical Association, over which BPC has no authority.

### Annual Register

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Promoting professional standards and acting as a voluntary regulator of the profession is a main task of the BPC. It administers the assessments and audits of individual practitioners who seek to achieve registrant status of the BPC which enables their names to go onto the BPC register.

It publishes and maintains an annual register of clinical practitioners who meet its continuing professional and fitness-to-practise standards. Their specialisms, modalities and languages are also listed. The practitioners include child psychoanalysts, couple therapists, Jungian analysts, psychoanalysts and some group analysts.

### Practice requirements

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BPC registration is governed by the following fitness to practise requirements:

* The practitioner must be a member of good standing of a BPC member professional institution
* Must subscribe to and be governed by the BPC's published Code of Ethics
* Be regulated by the BPC's Complaints Procedure
* Must undergo a sustained annual programme of continuing professional development (CPD), monitored and approved by the BPC, with regular consultation on their clinical work, fitness to practice, professional indemnity insurance, attending clinic-related lectures and courses and a broad range of professional activity, including research, teaching and writing.

### Conferences and events

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As part of its services to member organisations, BPC has an on-going programme of topical conferences. It publishes an online newsletter and a printed quarterly, New Associations with articles, despatched to registrants. It conducts occasional membership surveys on attitudes to a range of social matters.

## Safeguarding the public

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The individual organisations which 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 principal body for regulating 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 through 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 from their parent organisation's membership list as well as from the BPC Register.[citation needed] The detailed fitness to practise policies are all published on its website or are available from the BPC office.[citation needed]

During October 2024 the British press signalled that self-regulation of therapists was not working according to investigations. They showed that some therapists and counsellors, including at least one GP, were able to set up in practice after having been struck off for misconduct by their member organisations, such as the BACP and UKCP. Misconduct was reported to include drug and sexual abuse. The majority of perpetrators were male practitioners exploiting female clients. In some cases, perpetrators had changed their names and joined other organisations where checks were inadequate, and continued to practice. Campaigners and MPs have called for stronger measures to protect the public.[3] [4] An undated and unsigned response by the BPC was released online to the investigative journalist, Patrick Strudwick,[5] in the matter of the inadequate regulation of psychotherapists. Andrew Samuels, a long time psychotherapist and academic believes statutory regulation will neither help the public nor the profession in the current situation.[6]

### List of BPC Member Institutions

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* Anna Freud Centre
* 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
* 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
* Tavistock Relationships
* Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
* Wessex Counselling
* West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy

## See also

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* British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
* Mental health in the United Kingdom
* Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care
* United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

## References

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1. ^ Psychiatric Bulletin, Richards and Sandler 17 (7): 440.(1993), http://pb.rcpsych.org/cgi/reprint/17/7/440
2. ^ "Joining Our Register". British Psychoanalytic Council. Archived from the original on 23 May 2022.
3. ^ Hall, Rachel (19 October 2024). "Psychotherapists in England must be regulated experts say after abuse claims rise". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
4. ^ Strudwick, Patrick (23 October 2024). "Sex, drugs, drunk: unregulated therapy". inews. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
5. ^ "Reply to Patrick Strudwick article on unregulated therapists". psychoanalytic-council.org. Archived from the original on 12 August 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
6. ^ Samuels, Andrew (30 October 2024). "Why I would counsel against statutory regulation of psychotherapists". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 October 2024.

## External links

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* The British Psychoanalytic Council
* European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector
* International Association for Analytical Psychology
* International Psychoanalytical Association

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Analytical psychology

People|

* Marie-Louise von Franz
* Sigmund Freud
* Carl Jung
* David Keirsey
* Isabel Myers
* Katharine Cook Briggs

Concepts|

* Archetype
* Collective unconscious
* Personal unconscious

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Attachment theory

Theory|

* Affectional bond
* Attachment in adults
* Attachment in children
* Attachment disorder
* Attachment and health
* Attachment measures
* Attachment theory
* Dynamic-maturational model of attachment and adaptation
* Fathers as attachment figures
* Human bonding
* Maternal deprivation
* Object relations theory
* Reactive attachment disorder

Notable theorists|

* Mary Ainsworth
* William E. Blatz
* John Bowlby
* Patricia McKinsey Crittenden
* Erik Erikson
* Sigmund Freud
* Harry Harlow
* Jerome Kagan
* Melanie Klein
* Konrad Lorenz
* Mary Main
* René Spitz
* Nikolaas Tinbergen

Clinical applications|

* Attachment-based therapy (children)
* Attachment-based psychotherapy
* Dyadic developmental psychotherapy

Others|

* History of attachment theory

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Sigmund Freud

Books|

* On Aphasia (1891)
* Studies on Hysteria (1895)
* The Interpretation of Dreams (including On Dreams) (1899)
* The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901)
* Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905)
* Totem and Taboo (1913)
* Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1916–17)
* The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement (1917)
* Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921)
* The Ego and the Id (1923)
* The Question of Lay Analysis (1926)
* The Future of an Illusion (1927)
* Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)
* Moses and Monotheism (1939)

Essays|

* "The Aetiology of Hysteria" (1896)
* Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)
* Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva (1907)
* Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming (1908)
* Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood (1910)
* On Narcissism (1914)
* The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement (1914)
* Some Character-Types Met with in Psycho-Analytic Work (1915)
* Thoughts for the Times on War and Death (1916)
* Mourning and Melancholia (1918)
* Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
* Medusa's Head (1922)
* Dostoevsky and Parricide (1928)

Case studies|

* "Dora" (Ida Bauer)
* Emma Eckstein
* Herbert Graf ("Little Hans")
* Irma's injection
* "Anna O." (Bertha Pappenheim)
* "Rat Man"
* Sergei Pankejeff ("Wolfman")
* Daniel Paul Schreber

Original
concepts|

* Psychoanalysis
* Id, ego and superego
* Libido
* Preconscious
* Ego ideal
* censorship
* Free association
* Transference
* Psychosexual development
* Oral stage
* Anal stage
* Phallic stage
* Latency stage
* Genital stage
* Oedipus complex
* Father complex
* Deferred obedience
* Reality principle
* Seduction theory

Related|

* Bibliography
* complete works
* Archives
* Vienna home and museum
* London home and museum
* 1971 statue
* Interment
* Freudian slip
* Humor
* Inner circle
* Neo-Freudianism
* Views on homosexuality
* Religious views

Cultural
depictions|

* Freud: The Secret Passion (1962 film)
* The Visitor (1993 play)
* Mahler on the Couch (2010 film)
* A Dangerous Method (2011 film)
* Freud (2020 TV series)
* Freud's Last Session (2023 film)

Family|

* Martha Bernays (wife)
* Anna Freud (daughter)
* Ernst L. Freud (son)
* Clement Freud (grandson)
* Lucian Freud (grandson)
* Walter Freud (grandson)
* Amalia Freud (mother)
* Jacob Freud (father)
* Edward Bernay (nephew)
* Jofi (dog)

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Carl Jung

Theories|

* Analytical psychology
* Cognitive functions
* Interpretation of religion
* Personality type
* Synchronicity
* Theory of neurosis

Concepts|

| The psyche|

* Collective unconscious
* Complex
* Electra complex
* Inner child
* Personal unconscious

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Jungian archetypes|

* Anima and animus
* Apollo
* Persona
* Self
* Shadow
* Trickster
* Wise Old Man and Wise Old Woman
* Wounded healer

Other|

* Active imagination
* Enantiodromia
* Extraversion and introversion
* Individuation
* Participation mystique

Publications|

| Early|

* Psychology of the Unconscious (1912)
* Psychological Types (1921)
* Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)

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Later|

* Psychology and Alchemy (1944)
* Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self (1951)
* Answer to Job (1954)
* Mysterium Coniunctionis (1956)

Posthumous|

* Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1961)
* Man and His Symbols (1964)
* The Red Book: Liber Novus (2009)
* Seven Sermons to the Dead (1916)
* Black Books (2020)

The Collected Works
of C. G. Jung|

* Psychiatric Studies (1970)
* Experimental Researches (1973)
* Psychogenesis of Mental Disease (1960)
* Freud & Psychoanalysis (1961)
* Symbols of Transformation (1967, a revision of Psychology of the Unconscious, 1912)
* Psychological Types (1971)
* Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1967)
* Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche (1969)
* Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1969)
* Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self (1969)
* Civilization in Transition (1970)
* Psychology and Religion (1970)
* Psychology and Alchemy (1944)
* Alchemical Studies (1968)
* Mysterium Coniunctionis (1970)
* Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature (1966)
* Practice of Psychotherapy (1966)
* Development of Personality (1954)
* The Symbolic Life (1977)
* General Bibliography (Revised Edition) (1990)
* General Index (1979)

People|

| Jungfrauen|

* Marie-Louise von Franz
* Barbara Hannah
* Jolande Jacobi
* Aniela Jaffé
* Emma Jung
* Toni Wolff

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Colleagues|

* Sigmund Freud
* Maria Moltzer
* Wolfgang Pauli
* Sabina Spielrein
* Victor White
* Richard Wilhelm

Followers|

* Joseph Campbell
* James Hillman
* Erich Neumann
* Maud Oakes
* Jordan Peterson
* Joseph L. Henderson
* Laurens van der Post
* Sonu Shamdasani
* June Singer
* Anthony Stevens
* Marion Woodman

Houses|

* Bollingen Tower
* C. G. Jung House Museum

Organizations|

* Bollingen Foundation
* C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich
* Eranos
* Int'l Assoc. for Analytical Psychology
* Int'l Assoc. for Jungian Studies
* Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies
* Philemon Foundation
* Psychology Club Zürich

Popular culture|

* A Dangerous Method
* Persona
* "Shadow Man"
* Soul
* Synchronicity (I · II)
* The Soul Keeper

Other|

* Archetypal literary criticism
* Archetypal pedagogy
* Bollingen Prize
* Burghölzli
* I Ching
* The Secret of the Golden Flower

* Commons
* Wikiquote
* Wikisource texts
* All articles

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Psychotherapy

Schools|

| Psychodynamic|

* Adlerian therapy
* Analytical therapy
* Mentalization-based treatment
* Psychoanalysis
* Transference focused psychotherapy

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Cognitive and
behavioral|

* Clinical behavior analysis
* Acceptance and commitment therapy
* Functional analytic psychotherapy
* Cognitive behavioral therapy
* Cognitive therapy
* Dialectical behavior therapy
* Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
* Rational emotive behavior therapy

Humanistic|

* Emotionally focused therapy
* Existential therapy
* Focusing
* Gestalt therapy
* Logotherapy
* Person-centered therapy

Other|

* Art therapy
* Dance therapy
* Feminist therapy
* Music therapy
* Narrative therapy
* Play therapy
* Reality therapy
* Systemic therapy
* Transactional analysis
* List

Integrative|

* Eclectic psychotherapy
* Multimodal therapy
* Transtheoretical model

Approaches|

* Brief psychotherapy
* Counseling
* Online therapy
* Telephone therapy
* Residential treatment
* Self-help
* Support group

Research|

* Clinical formulation
* Clinical pluralism
* Common factors theory
* Discontinuation
* History
* Practitioner–scholar model

Techniques|

| Behaviour therapy|

* Aversion therapy
* Chaining
* Contingency management
* Shaping
* Stimulus control
* Token economy
* Counterconditioning
* Desensitization/Exposure therapy
* Systematic desensitization

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Other individual therapy|

* Autogenic training
* Biofeedback
* Clean language
* Cognitive restructuring
* Emotion regulation
* Affect labeling
* Free association
* Homework
* Hypnotherapy
* Modeling

Group psychotherapy|

* Co-therapy
* Couples therapy
* Family therapy
* Psychodrama
* Sensitivity training

People|

* Philippe Pinel
* Josef Breuer
* Sigmund Freud
* Pierre Janet
* Alfred Adler
* Sándor Ferenczi
* Carl Jung
* Ludwig Binswanger
* Melanie Klein
* Otto Rank
* Karen Horney
* Harry Stack Sullivan
* Fritz Perls
* Anna Freud
* Donald Winnicott
* Wilhelm Reich
* Milton H. Erickson
* Jacques Lacan
* Erik Erikson
* Carl Rogers
* Viktor Frankl
* George Kelly
* Rollo May
* Virginia Axline
* Carl Whitaker
* Albert Ellis
* Silvano Arieti
* James Bugental
* Joseph Wolpe
* Virginia Satir
* Aaron Beck
* Salvador Minuchin
* Paul Watzlawick
* Haim Ginott
* Ogden Lindsley
* Paul Watzlawick
* Arthur Janov
* Eugene Gendlin
* R. D. Laing
* Jean Baker Miller
* Otto F. Kernberg
* Nathan Azrin
* Irvin D. Yalom
* Arnold Lazarus
* Lorna Smith Benjamin
* Marsha M. Linehan
* Vittorio Guidano
* Les Greenberg
* William R. Miller
* Steven C. Hayes
* Michael White
* Jeffrey Young
* Peter Fonagy

Associations|

* Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
* Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
* Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
* Association for Behavior Analysis International
* European Association for Psychotherapy
* Society for Psychotherapy Research
* World Council for Psychotherapy

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