The Psychotherapist and the Professional Complaint (eBook, ePUB)

The Shadow Side of Therapy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This outstanding book is an update on where the mental health profession's complaints system is now. Its timely analysis follows in the wake of prior work on reform, which include the attempt in 2001 at the House of Lords to statutorily regulate psychotherapists in the UK. (Alderdice/Casement et al.) -- Professor Ann Casement, LP, Past-Chair UKCP The patient's word was once easily dismissed against the word of the psychiatrist, doctor or therapist, leaving the patient vulnerable. Recognising this inherent risk in the relationship between clinicians and patients, professional regulations have gradually been established to facilitate patients' access to information, support and recourse. However, while most professions also explicitly protect their own members, there are, notably, no systems in place to protect psychotherapists. The current complaint procedure presumes the therapist's guilt until proven innocent, rather than the reverse. The Psychotherapist and the Professional Complaint explores this problem with sensitivity and rigour. In these chapters, the contributors examine ways to address serious conflicts in the psychotherapy relationship and the role of professional bodies in protecting their members while regulating their performance. Acknowledging both strengths and flaws, they outline the historical context and future prospects of the current complaint procedures. This book invites us to think and speak on the controversial subject of complaints, supporting patients, therapists and policymakers alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Karnac Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781913494629
• Artikelnr.: 65977767

Autorenporträt

Adah Sachs is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, previously NHS consultant and psychotherapy lead for the London Borough of Redbridge. She lectures, trains and supervises worldwide on complex trauma, attachment and dissociation, and has authored over 100 conference papers, book chapters and journal articles including two books. She is a fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). Valerie Sinason is an internationally published poet, writer, child psychotherapist, adult psychoanalyst, and lecturer. A former consultant psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, President of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability (IPD), Founder and Patron of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies (CDS), and currently serves on the board of the ISSTD.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS INTRODUCTION by Adah Sachs and Valerie Sinason PART 1: CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE 1. The psychotherapist, the profession and the professional complaint Adah Sachs 2. When healing is halted by fear Fiona Farley 3. Love and hate in the time of Covid: who will watch the watchmen? Anne Kearns 4. A constructive way of dealing with conflict Kay Beaumont 5. Complaints in the field of dissociative disorders: six key categories Valerie Sinason PART II: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 6. Filing psychoanalytical complaints: from verbal assaults to the crushing of the larynx Brett Kahr 7. Reflections on a 25-year-old professional complaint Leslie Ironside 8. Then and now – a historical perspective 113 Emerald Davis in an interview with Valerie Sinason PART III: TOWARDS THE FUTURE 9. The unique nature of boundaries in psychoanalytic therapy and the implication for ethics and complaints procedures Philip Stokoe 10. Complaints and incident procedures in the NHS Romanie Nedergaard-Couchman and Rajnish Attavar 11. Uses, misuses and abuses of fitness to practise processes Philip Cox 12. The Psychotherapy and Counselling Union: therapists supporting therapists through complaints processes – emergent learning and new possibilities for regulatory change Philip Cox, Richard Bagnall-Oakeley and Sasha Kaplin 13. Reform Julie Norris and Andrew Campbell-Tiech REFERENCES INDEX