Archive for the “D. Tactics” category
The Royal College of Psychiatrists & Lacanian in the UK : Comments following Éric Laurent’s ‘The Culture of Abusive Treatments’ (LQ 930/LRO 308) (8th January 2021) : Julia Evans : 3rd July 2021
by Julia Evans on July 3, 2021
Background Éric Laurent’s text, dated 8th January 2021, was written in response to a text by Dorothy Bishop and Joel Swendsen published in the BJPsych Bulletin, which slanders Jacques Lacan and his students. This journal is an organ of the Royal (…)
Alliance for Counselling & Psychotherapy Newsletter : SCoPEd & a new APPG?
by Julia Evans on October 31, 2019
Update December 2019 Introducing ‘Partners for Counselling and Psychotherapy’ (PCP) : see https://youtu.be/4VG1ukvvfuI We are a partnership of eleven counselling and psychotherapy organisations holding open a space to support the diverse range of good practice in the field. This video (…)
Against UK political moves towards Statutory Legislation & locking out the clinics of all practitioners who do not comply
by Julia Evans on March 17, 2019
Previous texts : Newsletter against the BACP, BPC & UKCP SCoPEd project : Alliance for Counselling & Psychotherapy on 8th February 2019 or here Three leading professional regulatory bodies create a new competence framework. by Julia Evans on 15th January 2019 or here Background The Big (…)
Newsletter against the BACP, BPC & UKCP SCoPEd project : Alliance for Counselling & Psychotherapy
by Julia Evans on February 8, 2019
Newsletter against the BACP, BPC & UKCP SCoPEd project 12th February 2019 from Alliance for Counselling & Psychotherapy (Blog : https://allianceblogs.wordpress.com/about/, Contact : info@allianceforcandp.org) __________________________________________________________ ACTION 1 You are asked to forward this to everyone interested in the future of Counselling & Psychotherapy (…)
Three leading professional regulatory bodies create a new competence framework.
by Julia Evans on January 15, 2019
Further texts : Letter signed by Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, the Psychotherapy and Counselling Union and the College of Psychoanalysts : Against UK political moves towards Statutory Legislation & locking out the clinics of all (…)
The Context for the APPG’s survey on prescribed drug dependence
by Julia Evans on November 30, 2018
A related text: I suggest you also read The Psychopharmacology of Everyday Life | by Jamieson Webster | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books : Available here ________________________________ Content Introduction About the APPG The Survey Areas of criticism (…)
The progress of a bill against Conversion Therapy : a reply from the Minister for Women & Equalities : 12th November 2018
by Julia Evans on November 12, 2018
__________________________________________________________ Update, 22nd February 2019 : The following from the Church Times, may indicate that the difficulties of legislating a ban on Conversion Therapy (see below) alone, may be acknowledged. Quote: The survey ran online from 12 to 31 December. It (…)
Further on the progress of the Counsellors and Psychotherapy (Regulation) & Conversion Therapy Bill
by Julia Evans on October 30, 2018
Content News of progress The background to the Bill – update added December 2018 __________________________________________ News of Progress The following protest letter was sent by email to the Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP’s office on the 25th October 2018 at 16:44. (…)
Opposing the Counsellors and Psychotherapists (Regulation) and Conversion Therapy Bill
by Julia Evans on August 23, 2018
The letter,, which is reproduced below protests at the introduction of this unnecessary & unwanted bill, has been sent to Dr Wollaston MP who chairs the Parliamentary Health Committee. It will not protect anyone from ‘conversion therapy’ and will almost (…)
Mental health industry collaborates with damaging state welfare reforms (video) : 11th April 2018 : Denis Postle
by Julia Evans on April 11, 2018
Introduction by Julia Evans I first met Denis in 1979 – we think – though neither of us have a clear recollection of this momentous occasion, at a day on catastrophe theory. We reconnected when we found ourselves both on (…)