Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) is a

psychoanalysis PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: + . is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge. In what might b ...

research, training and low-cost treatment centre located in

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. CFAR is a member organisation of the

United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a professional association of psychotherapy organisations and practitioners in the United Kingdom. It is restricted to registered clinical psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsell ...

. CFAR operates within the psychoanalytic tradition of

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies explained as originatin ...

and

Jacques Lacan Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, , ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, and pu ...

History

The centre was founded in 1985 by Bice Benvenuto, Professor Bernard Burgoyne, Richard Klein and

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. It was established as a charity with the purpose of advancing education for the benefit of the public in particular by the provision of training and seminars in psychoanalysis.

Courses

CFAR offers introductory and advanced courses in psychoanalysis, and trains psychoanalysts within the context of its clinical training programme. Seminars are given by visiting Lacanian analysts from France, Belgium, Spain and Australia.

Publications

The Centre publishes a Journal JCFAR which contains articles on psychoanalytic themes from a Freudian and Lacanian perspective. In association with Karnac Books CFAR has published The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library which aims to make classic

Lacanian Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, , ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, and pu ...

texts available in English for the first time, as well as publishing original research in the

field: * Sexual Ambiguities by Geneviève Morel * The Trainings of the Psychoanalyst by Annie Tardits * Freud and the Desire of the Psychoanalyst by Serge Cottet * Lacan and Levi-Strauss or The Return to Freud (1951–1957) by Markos Zafiropoulos

Challenge to Health Professions Council

In February 2007 the UK Government published a

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(‘Trust, Assurance and Safety – The Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century’ ) which stated that ''"The government is planning to introduce statutory regulation for…psychotherapists and counsellors…"'' and that ''"…psychotherapists and counsellors will be regulated by the

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, following that Council’s rigorous process of assessing their regulatory needs and ensuring that its system is capable of accommodating them"''. As a response to this proposed regulation by the Health Professions Council (HPC), CFAR was one of the organisations that contributed to the Maresfield report which opposed the suitability of the HPC as a regulating body for the professions of

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and

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 ...

in the UK. Following on from this report, CFAR was one of six organisations that called for a

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of whether or not the HPC had, in fact, fully assessed the regulatory needs of the professions or properly determined if it was the most appropriate body to provide such regulation. On Friday 10 December 2010, a Judicial Review Permission Hearing under The Hon. Mr Justice Burton at the

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found against the Health Professions Council and granted permission to proceed towards a Judicial Review of the proposals for regulation under the HPC. On 16 February 2011 the UK government — in its

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‘Enabling Excellence’ — halted the project to regulate counselling, psychotherapy and other talking treatments via the HPC.

References

{{Authority control Research institutes in London Freudian psychology Jacques Lacan Psychology organisations based in the United Kingdom Research institutes established in 1985 1985 establishments in the United Kingdom

History

Courses

Publications

Challenge to Health Professions Council

See also

References