| Available now £12.99 from Lulu.com Therapy Futures - Obstacles and opportunities - introducing the psyCommons by Denis Postle Therapy Futures explores the heart and soul of therapy – how might therapy reach out and be refreshed, Denis Postle asks? Therapy Futures introduces two essential elements for therapy renewal, one is valuing love as the active ingredient of therapy and second, recognizing that we all inhabit a psyCommons, a thriving fountain of streetwise, savvy ‘know-how’, ‘know-when’ and ‘know-if’, through which millions of people get through life. Therapists distil expertise about the human condition from the psyCommons and sequester it in professions. Therapy Futures tells how the militantly professionalizing tendency within the psychological therapies relentlessly sought state backing for these professional enclosures, and how this ambition failed. The case study that narrates this history is a story of mutual disrespect, ‘couch wars’ between rival psychological fiefdoms, tribes and trade associations – with practitioners, who in their work espouse care and trust, at the same time fighting each other for self-interested professional advantage. At the same time there was a notable failure to see that the government agency they were courting was a toxic institution – and we have all had a narrow escape from capture by it. These power-driven contests for terrain look set to run and run, but do they have to? Therapy Futures outlines an alternative, a transition that waves goodbye to professionalization and moves towards forms of psycho-practice based on inquiry, equipotency and love. |
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| eIpnosis - a change of direction |
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eIpnosis has shifted emphasis from resisting state regulation of the psychological therapies to championing new and existing ways of approaching 'human condition work' and 'civic accountability' post state regulation. This is a new beginning. While there are several established projects and initiatives, we are in discovery and exploratory mode. If you would like to contribute, get in touch. |
| Are you feeling lonely, isolated or unsettled in your life as a practitioner? Have you recently finished, or will soon complete, a training in working with the human condition?* Or have you been working long enough to appreciate why it is important to have a form of practitioner civic accountability that matches your values?
Perhaps it is time to check out the Independent Practitioners Network [IPN] a national gateway to practitioner communities based on peer review. IPN consists of self-directing groups of five-eight practitioners plus external validation, organised via low/no hierarchy network structures. To get to know the IPN culture, and to find out how to sign up as a participant, join an existing IPN group, start a new IPN group, or convert an existing group, see the IPN website or email e伋理ip破解版无限试用 *aka psychotherapy, counselling, facilitation, coaching, bodywork, meditation, massage, etc |
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| Honouring the Psychological Commons: Peer to Peer Networks and Post-Professional Psychopractice An eIpnosis Review March 8, 2010 |
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| As the Regulation of the psychological therapies in the UK moves towards an endgame, eIpnosis attention has turned from resisting the Health Professions Council's [HPC] codification of the ineffable strands of working with the human condition, to re-stating, exploring and developing what we value and trust.
Foremost among this for eIpnosis has long been the notion of a 'Psychological Commons', an abundance of psychological knowledge and practice that has been more or less freely available for decades. more | .doc | .mp3 | podcast |