The British Psychotherapy Foundation, Bpf, is the successor organisation to three former long-established British

psychotherapy Psychotherapy (also psychological therapy, talk therapy, or talking therapy) is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior, increase happiness, and overcome pro ...

providers and clinical training institutions which merged in April 2013. The original constituents are the British Association of Psychotherapists, BAP (1951), The Lincoln Clinic and Centre for Psychotherapy (1968) and the London Centre for Psychotherapy, LCP, (1976). It is unique in the

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for providing treatment services for children and adults in all the psychoanalytic modalities, that is of

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ian and

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ian inspiration. It is also unique in providing professional training in those modalities within one institution and is regulated by the

British Psychoanalytic Council The British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) is an association of training institutions and professional associations which have their roots in established psychoanalysis and analytical psychology. They bring together approximately 1500 practitioners ...

. It has charitable status. Its current associations are: * British Jungian Analytic Association (BJAA), a member society of the

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* Independent Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Association (IPCAPA) * Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association (PPA)

History

Until it de-merged in 2019, the recently formed, British Psychoanalytic Association has been a fourth constituent of Bpf, (it was integral to the BAP). Bpf runs MSc and Phd programmes in ''Psychodynamics of Human Development'' with

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in Jungian and Psychoanalytic modalities. Bpf and the

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offer a two-year Clinical Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy or Psychodynamic Psychotherapy training in

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. The Bpf is the owner, (acquired by BAP in 2006) and publisher with

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of the foremost British academic journal in the field since 1984, '' The British Journal of Psychotherapy''.

Notable members

Rosemary Gordon Rosemary Gordon (1918 Germany – 17 January 2012, Menerbes, France) was a naturalised British academic, clinical psychologist and leading analytical psychologist and writer. She was a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Brit ...

Carol Topolski Carol Topolski (born 1949) is a British novelist. Before becoming a full-time writer she was a practising psychoanalytic psychologist and she drew on her experiences in writing her first novel, '' Monster Love'' which was published in 2008. Acco ...

Clare Winnicott Clare Winnicott ('' née'' Clare Nimmo Britton, known as "Elsie"; 30 September 1906 – 17 April 1984) OBE was an English social worker, civil servant, psychoanalyst and teacher. She played a pivotal role in the passing of The Children's Act ...

References

External links

Bpf website

IPCAPA/UCL Doctorate in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

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website of the British Journal of Psychotherapy

Birkbeck MSc in the Psychodynamics of Human Development
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History

Notable members

See also

References

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