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Minding the NHS Wellbeing Gap APP Survey of members 2011

 

The APP is conducting a major survey of its members in order to try to establish an estimate of how much psychoanalytic psychotherapy (broadly defined) the NHS is currently providing. The information gained from this survey will be crucially important to the ability of the APP to effectively represent what we believe to be a vital need for access to psychoanalytically informed care for all patients who can benefit from such care. As things stand we have no real data to rely on. Unless we undertake this work now our concern is that our part of the profession is likely to shrink, possibly rapidly over the coming years, having been in long-term decline (we think), probably for many years. At the same time there are clear opportunities for expanding access in line with stated government commitments to offer comprehensive access across the age and disorder range to evidence-based psychological therapies. Answering these questions will enable us to help the NHS plan for a skilled workforce that is fit for the future; it will enable us to demonstrate there is an existing highly skilled workforce of psychoanalytically trained practitioners who are capable of delivering the outcomes in ‘No health without mental health’ for improving mental and emotional wellbeing; it will help us understand where there are gaps in provision and how to address these; it will enable us to inform commissioners of the value of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and develop guidance that supports them to increase that value year on year.

The survey is designed to provide us with a map of the current nature of the psychoanalytically trained profession: who we are, who our patients are, what we do specifically, in what settings we work, and how we can best be deployed.

Please take the time to complete and return this form. Your participation in this exercise will be critical to its success. The effort will be a real investment in the future of the psychoanalytic sector of the profession, and improved patient care.

This data will be held securely by APP and used only for the purposes given which are central to the aims of the association. Where you have supplied your name, your data will not be disclosed to any third party without your prior permission.

 

Click here to open and fill out the survey, you can print it or fill it in and email the information

APP Survey[1].pdf

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THE INSTITUTE OF
PSYCHOANALYSIS

Comparing the Incomparable and Formalising the Unformulated: The Problem of Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis

David Tuckett

Date: Wednesday 21 September 2011
Venue: Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112a Shirland Road,
London W9 2EQ
Time: 8.00 pm

 

Science tries to build consensus about truth by making formal statements about “reality”. These claims are shared by supporting them with the most transparent possible foundations. Defined in that way and following Bion, we can say scientific knowledge is the product of “work group” rather than “basic assumption” group functioning. By extension, insofar as we aim to function as a “work group” and base our ideas on reality, then knowledge about psychoanalysis needs to be developed as a scientific undertaking and to be very firmly geared to the task of relating what we do to what we can sense about it and share with each other.

Making consensually agreed statements about the inner and outer realities that psychoanalysts study is frustratingly difficult. But difficulty is not a reason to abandon the exercise and so, inevitably, resort to truth claims based on omnipotent thinking and basic assumption group functioning.

My preoccupation in this lecture will be to ask how we can know and share what we as psychoanalysts do when we do psychoanalysis and how we define and communicate our differences to each other in a rigorous way - so that we can understand what they “really” are and reflect on them respectfully.

I will set out a number of brief clinical examples of what appear to be both different and similar styles of work and then consider what are the problems we encounter - if we try to be rigorous in our comparisons as well as about how they might be overcome.

 

TICKETS: £ 5.00 (free to Members and Candidates)
Please note that Members and Candidates must still apply for tickets although no payment is required.

Tel: 020 7563 5016 E-mail: Marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk
www.beyondthecouch.org.uk or www.psychoanalysis.org.uk
 

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The 5th Annual New Savoy Partnership Conference

Psychological Therapies 2011

Thursday 24and Friday 25 November 2011

Savoy Place, London

The 5th annual New Savoy conference arrives at a time of significant change in the NHS commissioning landscape. Psychological therapy services will need to understand this landscape if they are to navigate the NHS efficiency drive intact, and expanded, in line with the government's promise to invest a further £400M. Who and what should guide the clinical commissioning decisions in the new GP-led NHS?

I am pleased to update you with details of the 5th annual conference programme and delighted that Dr Helen Lester, a GP who has been involved with the Quality Outcomes Framework that forms part of the GP contract, and Sir Mike Rawlins, the Chair of NICE, will be giving keynote presentations to start day 1. At the heart of the New Savoy Declaration, and at each conference, a more radical set of questions has always been addressed: can the ambition of universal emotional care be achieved without sacrificing the therapeutic frame to an overly medicalised model? 50 Years On from Enoch Powell's famous 'water towers' speech Paul Burstow, Minister of Care Services, Dame Sheila Shribman and Peter Fonagy, National IAPT Adviser, and Peter Kinderman from the British Psychological Society will each offer keynote sessions that focus on the challenge ahead if we are to reach older people, children and young people, and people with serious mental illness, respectively.

Day 1: Distress, Disorder & NHS Commissioning

GPs, Commissioning and Talking Therapies: how will we get it right?
Helen Lester Co-Chair, Joint Commissioning Panel Royal College of General Practitioners and Royal College of Psychiatrists
Talking Therapies: what should GPs count as credible evidence?
Sir Michael Rawlins Chair NICE
50 Years On: From Asylums to Care Homes - how can we extend the reach of psychological therapies in 2012?
Paul Bursow Minister of Care Services
Talking therapies for children and young people - how do we transform the system?
Dame Sheila Shribman National Clinical Director for Children, Young People and Maternity Services and Peter Fonagy National Adviser IAPT
Models of psychological care based on robust science, practice and policy: what role for IAPT?
Peter Kinderman Chair Division of Clinical Psychology BPS

Day 2 approaches the subject of mental wellbeing from another direction. What is the relationship between economic growth, subjective wellbeing and reducing national levels of depression - so that people are less dependent on welfare benefits? 'Talking', the thing we have in common across our disciplines, exists in a marketplace, as well as a healthcare context. Sir Gus O'Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, launched the first national survey of wellbeing earlier this year. Lord Freud , the Minister for Welfare reform, has the task of getting the long-term unemployed back to work. Their keynotes on day 2 will address how the Coalition expects us to help towards improved 'public mental health'. Bruce Calderwood, Director of Mental Health, will close the conference setting out next steps for implementing the government's mental health strategy, and its comprehensive talking therapies plan.

Day 2: Wellbeing, 'Talking' & the Marketplace

What do we know about national wellbeing, economic growth and whether reducing levels of depression is key?
Sir Gus O'Donnell Cabinet Secretary (invited)
From welfare to work via talking therapies: the contribution of welfare reform towards delivering better mental health
Lord David Freud Minister for Welfare Reform
Respondent: Rachel Perkins Author: The Perkins Review
Looking to the next phase for IAPT and the mental health strategy
Bruce Calderwood Director of Mental Health and Learning Disabilities

PLUS: Symposia, focus consultation groups, debates and reports including:

* IAPT & Payment by Outcomes: a new currency model
* Serious mental illness: does IAPT fit the need? Long-term conditions and medically unexplained symptoms: will GPs invest in IAPT to save? Public mental health: what is the interface with IAPT?: FOCUS CONSULTATIONS on the future IAPT programme
* National audit of psychological therapies for depression: report on the findings (& launch at the evening seminar)
* What do patients and clinicians say makes a difference to outcomes? Evaluation of IAPT in the South West
* E-mental health - innovation in delivering talking therapies (& launch of a new Directory and Guidelines at the evening seminar)
* Mental health clustering & Payment by Results
* Government Regulation of Pscyhological Therapies
* Opening up talking therapies to competition: DEBATE
* IAPT failed older people in its 1st phase: will it fail them in the next?: DEBATE

The conference is now open to bookings; please click here http://mxm.mxmfb.com/rsps/ct/c/812/r/42593/l/72998 , or email kerry@healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk.

We have made the conference more affordable to attend this year by offering 1-day attendance, and reduced booking rates via your professional bodies.

We look forward to seeing you at the conference.

Best Regards

Jeremy Clarke

Chair, New Savoy Partnership and Conference Chair

 

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Troubling patients troubled times

 

A one day workshop for GPs, counsellors and psychological therapists in Primary care.

Hosted jointly by the APP Primary care section, Balint society and the R.C.G.P. London.

4th November 2011

Click here for the conference leaflet

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The Nursing Section (APP)

 

Nursing Section of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (APP)in the NHS
Autumn term 2011 seminar programme

The theme for this term will be Information Technology (IT) and it's relationship with nursing.

Mon 12th Sept 20.00- 21.15 Portman Clinic

Computers & Information Technology in Psychiatric Nursing, Renee John R. Repique, Perspectives in Psychiatric Care Vol.43,No 2, April 2007
-Discussion

The following seminars are
Mon 10th Oct

Discussion of-
Heather Wood’s article ‘The Internet and its role in the escalation of sexually compulsive behaviour’.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy p127-142, vol 25, No. 2 , June 2011

Mon 14th Nov
Mon 12th Dec


All meetings 20.00 - 21.15 & held at the Portman Clinic (next to theTavistock Clinic, Belsize Lane, London NW3)
 or contact Chair of Section, Stephen Mackie,

Tel: 020-7794 8262,

email: smackie@tavi-port.nhs.uk

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E.F.P.P. Adult Section & E.F.P.P. Child and Adolescent Section Conference

SIBLINGS
RIVALRY AND ENVY –COEXISTENCE AND CONCERN
14-16 October 2011
Krakow,Poland

Click here for conference flyer

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Inner City Centre
www.icclondon.org.uk
Vacancies for psychoanalytic psychotherapists
 

We invite enquiries from professional colleagues who would like to join a small dynamic psychoanalytic psychotherapy organisation.  The Inner City Centre, founded in 1981, is an organisation of around 50 qualified
psychoanalytic psychotherapists, i.e. members of the BPC or the UKCP Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis (CPJA). The organisation was originallyset up to provide accessible psychoanalytic psychotherapy to people in the City of London and the East End. This ethos remains a guiding principle for its current membership.


Inner city flyer.pdf

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Important recent article

Scientific American article here

 

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TEL 020 7272 8681

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Couples Psychotherapy Section

Information  about the Couples Psychotherapy Section can now be found on the Special sections page, click and follow the link.                     

 

                                              

 The Mental Health Network  

The Mental Health Network was launched in spring 2007 to provide a distinct voice for providers of NHS mental health services. It is part of the NHS Confederation, an independent membership body for the full range of organisations that make up the modern NHS. The aim is to raise the profile of issues facing mental health and supports, represents and lobbies on behalf of mental health providers.

Further details are available from the Network's development consultant John Way at: j.way@virgin.net

To visit The Mental Health Network click here

 

 APP Newsletter Online

The current Newsletter and back issues can be viewed on the APP Website by clicking on the 'Publications' Button and then clicking on the image of the Newsletter. Please note: once you have selected the Newsletter you wish to view, it will take a few minutes for the pages to load. Once the Newsletter is displayed, you can save or print it by clicking the buttons at the top of the new window.

 

 BPAS: Centre for the Advancement of Psychoanalytic Studies  

The Centre for the Advancement of Psychoanalytic Studies was established in 2000 by the Institute of Psychoanalysis, in order to provide a place for psychoanalysts to work together with psychoanalytical therapists, academics and others to advance our understanding of theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis. The Centre offers small postgraduate clinical workshops as well as some theoretical seminars. Those wishing to participate in clinical workshops will be asked to show evidence of relevant clinical experience and training. These courses will help participants to meet their obligations to engage in continuing professional development. The larger theoretical workshops offer an opportunity to advance the learning in areas of present day theoretical and professional interest.

To download a registration form click here  To download the full programme click here

Further enquiries to Winnie Dehaney at The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112A Shirland Road, London, W9 2EQ   Tel: 020 75635000   Fax: 020 75635001   Email: winnie.dehaney@iopa.org.uk

 

Noteworthy Articles and Papers Online

a) A Beautiful Mind web site that includes an interview with John Nash and also a number of other features about schizophrenia and the film.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/

b) O’Connor, L. E. (2002). Review of Creating Mental Illness by Allan V. Horwitz. Human Nature Review. 2: 4-6
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/cmi.html 

c) Brainwashed; Mental illnesses are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, right? Wrong, says Craig Newnes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4332552,00.html 

d) Jeremy Holmes: All you need is cognitive behaviour therapy?
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7332/288

 

Note for those considering Psychoanalysis as a treatment

The only UK organisation currently meeting the requirements of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) for the training of psychoanalysts is the British Psychoanalytical Society (BPAS). A full list of UK psychoanalysts who are members of the BPAS can be found at:  http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/