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This workshop will equip the discerning practitioner who is uncomfortable with the extension of State control over psychological therapies (SR) with the critical tools for deconstructing this trend; and suggest options for action beyond the ostrich position. Humorous, informative and catalytic, a day of consciousness-raising aimed at helping practitioners: escape more than 15 years of the inevitability trance induction; work through the fear and despair, anger and shame, confusion and cynicism that SR evokes; acquire immunity from MABD (Medical Academic Bureaucratic Disorder); and cease cultivating professional false selves. The workshop will include some underutilised and barely known procedures:
*50% of the workshop proceeds will be divided between IPN
(The Independent Practitioner
Network) and Greenpeace.
BACKGROUND TO THE WORKSHOP
To discuss booking or if you have any queries please ring Guy Gladstone on 020 7272 6672 or email.
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For
over 15 years, not withstanding the publication of at least 4 full length
books* deconstructing the SR project, the therapy umbrella organisations (UKCP,
BACP, BCP) have been peddling a ‘client protection’ mantra. This mantra is
based on misinformation and wishful thinking and has served to deflect
attention from vested interests desiring a state sanctioned monopoly over
the training market. There is no published research base to support SR as
an appropriate mode of client protection and much to suggest that it will
harm the client's experience. By now the unethical therapist is mentally
merging with the terrorist, the cyber fraudster and the ASBOed hoodie, not
to mention the Evil Doctor archetype behind the Harold Shipman horror story.
It is time to disentangle projection and reality.
With
the prospect within a few years of SR by means of The Health Professions
Council (an organ of the State) the personal (i.e. your practice) becomes
political. Just as feminism produced a new awareness regarding the power
relations operating in everyday life so the psychotherapy and counselling
field needs a public critique of its veiled internal and external power
relations. Otherwise practitioners and clients face a slide towards
absorption or co-option into the state’s emerging agenda for its citizens, a
fetishised notion of ‘WellBeing’ that makes a commodity of (un)happiness and
installs counsellors and psychotherapists as the licensed traders. Those who fall in with
this agenda will be furthering the client’s impotence in the name of
‘empowerment’ and perverting the client’s autonomy in the name of ‘choice’.
Such a dispensation has significant civil liberties implications for both
clients and practitioners.
*Readings