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Other recent and current eIpnosis preoccupations include:

• The Health Professions Council launch a 'call for ideas on the statutory(?) regulation of psychotherapists and counsellors Closing date 24 October 2008 Press Release
  
  
• The State Regulation Train is Leaving the station... or is the Station Leaving the Train? report on the June 10 Psychological Therapies Reference Group meeting
  
  
• State Regulation: Illusory, Unethical and Hazardous - Eleven Good reasons to To Oppose SR Guy Gladstone
  
  
• Response to Skills for Health Draft Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic National Occupational Standards, Roger Litten, Association for Lacanian Psychoanalysis in the United Kingdom June 2008
  
  
• 'We have had enough...' RESIGNATION FROM THE UKCP Join the list of practitioners across all modalities who have decided to resign, or intend to resign from their UKCP registration.
  
  
• WHY ANALYTIC PRACTITIONERS SHOULD SAY NO TO THE HPC by Ian Parker, CFAR
  
  
• Skills for Health Draft Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic National Occupational Standards - A Response from The Psychoanalytic Consortium
  
  
• It’s not too late to halt state regulation - new petition - sign up
  
  
• Soul Women Natalie Brooks on how 'for the passionate woman politics is dull, dry and devoid of soul'.
  
  
• Troubled Times In A Paperweight Palatinate
  Wesley Tantrum reports from the UKCP Court, Buxton, March 2008
  
  
• UKCP March AGM report by Ian Parker, CFAR
  
  
• Submission to the recent BPS consultation Guy Gladstone
  
  
• Attempts to freeze-dry love continue eIpnosis EDITORIAL February 26 more
  
  
• Reference Group Membership list,and 'Project Infrastructure' for the Skills for Health (a subsection of Skills for Business) task of writing National Occupational Standards [NOS] for the Psychological Therapies.
  Guess who heads the list... Lord John Alderdice... representing, apparently, the House of Lords.
  
  
• Consultation (now closed) on the State Regulation of Psychologists 21 December - 22 March. EDITORIAL, REVIEW and CONSULTATION DOCUMENT DOWNLOADS
  
  
• Health Professions Council Special #3 eIpnosis reports on iatrogenic damage due to the HPC's impermeability and unfitness for purpose.
  
  
• The Health Professions Council voted 13th December to 'consider the regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists'. Minutes | Details
  
  
• An Alarming Development The Health Professionals Council Road Map for the Statutory Regulation of Counsellors and Psychotherapists in the United Kingdom
  Roger Litten - Association for Lacanian Psychoanalysis in the UK
  
  
• UKCP, BACP, BABCP and BPS - announce 'MOCK' Application for New Professions Membership of the HPC
  
  
• REPORT: The Savoy Conference: The NHS and the Psychological Therapies
  REVIEW: Engineering Happiness - Internet online recordings of The Savoy Conference, includes links and excerpted transcripts
  COMMENT: Ideology and the NHS: the perversion of Science, Practice, and Policy
  The Old Savoy Declaration
  The New Savoy Declaration Revision 1.01
  Start the day with a smile! The Sav**oy Declaration VIDEO
  
  
• Recent press criticism of the IAPT/CBT nexus by Professor Andrew Samuels and an extensive response from the BABCP. Ipnosis features the correspondence, an Editorial, a Guest Editorial from Janet Low and a link to Andrew Samuels collection of CBT Articles and Documents.
  
  
• The first formal meeting, on 17th November 2007, between BACP and UKCP plus we guess BABCP, with the Health Professions Council. First steps on the slippery slope to creative and ethical malnutrition?
  
  

For newcomers, the evolution of the psychological therapies chronicled in these pages may seem a welcome endorsement of your career choice.

You are mistaken.

State regulation is on the way to being a Huge Mistake. With a toxicity that is now beginning to unfold.

The precious delights and unfoldings of personal development, not as a pre-requisite for a job, or symptom management, but for its own sake, are being over-run by business plans for an industrialization that exploits the innovations and discoveries of the last 80 years.

This marketized, medicalized, academicized, bureaucratized, scientized, edifice continues to evoke in eIpnosis stirrings of the subjectivity that it is designed to domesticate. Today - feelings of sadness bordering on disgust.

These echo a long-standing, deep disappointment that the psychological therapies could be so unaware, so ignorant, of the political dimensions of psychopractice, as to fail to notice that the embrace of the state would be poisonous.

An historic, and tragic, moment.

The current and recent events we report in these pages reinforce our perspective (see the Ipnosis videos Love Matters* and Love Works) that the regulationist's technocratic blather about psychopractice 'standards' and 'fitness to practise' is deficient in a critical, over-arching way. It doesn't anywhere include love, love being defined as seeking the flourishing of the Other, coupled necessarily with the absence of coercion and manipulation.

As an antidote to the content of the Regulation News and Views pages, the Love Matters pages continue to build and attract pointers to how human condition work can be manifest in ways that honour what we know as therapists about the human condition, flourishing and jouissance.

As before the Archive pages will contain everything that has gone before on eIpnosis and there is a comprehensive Contents Page.
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*400+ viewings so far