British Psychoanalytic Council

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 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

The preparation and training for becoming a psychoanalytic psychotherapist involves undergoing analysis.^{[citation needed]}

Safeguarding the public

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

• United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

General:

• Mental health in the United Kingdom

List of BPC Member Institutions

• 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

External links

• The British Psychoanalytic Council
• European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector
• International Psychoanalytical Association