British Psychoanalytical Society (BPAS)

Overview:

Profession(s): Psychoanalysis
Scope: National - United Kingdom
Formed: 1919
Members: 490
Registration No.: 212330
Address: 112a Shirland Road, Maida Vale, London, W9 2EQ, UK
Phone: +44 (0)2075635000
Fax: +44 (0)2075635001
Email: editor@psychoanalysis.org.uk
Website: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

Description:

The London Psychoanalytical Society was founded by Ernest Jones on 30th October 1913. With the expansion of psychoanalysis in the United Kingdom the Society was renamed the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1919. Soon after, the Institute of Psychoanalysis was established to administer the Society's activities. These include: the training of psychoanalysts, the development of the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, the provision of treatment through the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, the publication of books and journals, maintaining a library, furthering research, and holding public lectures. The Society has a Code of Ethics and an Ethical Committee. The Society, the Institute and the Clinic are all located at Byron House.

The Society is a component of the International Psychoanalytical Association, a body with members on all five continents that safeguards professional and ethical practice. The Society is a member of the British Confederation of Psychotherapists; the BCP publishes a register of British psychoanalysts and psychoanalytical psychotherapists. All members of the British Psychoanalytical Society are required to undertake continuing professional development.

Through its work - and the work of its individual members - the British Psychoanalytical Society has made an unrivalled contribution the understanding and treatment of mental illness. Members of the Society have included Michael Balint, Wilfred Bion, John Bowlby, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Joseph Sandler, and Donald Winnicott.

Mission/Aims:

We aim to develop our position as the leading centre of excellence in the UK in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice and to develop a professional organisation for the furthering of psychoanalysis through diversity and debate.

Aims:

1. To support the development of psychoanalytical knowledge as a general theory of mind.

2. To maintain and further the clinical and scientific standards of psychoanalysis.

3. To promote an internal culture where a diversity of psychoanalytic theories and techniques are valued and can be debated with intellectual openness.

4. To train high quality psychoanalytic professionals in sufficient numbers to maintain and develop the profession of psychoanalysis.

5. To provide and/or support high quality psychoanalytic treatment.

6. To disseminate knowledge about psychoanalysis, to health and allied professionals.

7. To promote the contribution of the discipline of psychoanalysis to public and intellectual life .

8. To form mutually collaborative clinical and academic links with other organisations (public sector, academic and charitable) which support the furtherance of the above aims.

9. To work as appropriate with and/or within national and international organisations in the interests of psychoanalysis and the psychoanalytic profession.

10. To maintain the physical and administrative facilities necessary for the above activities to take place in an appropriate and professional environment.

Member Benefits:

To gain training, continued professional development in the field of psychoanalysis, and an internationally recognised sound basis for offering clinical services in the public and private sphere. To be an active participant in the professional activities of a learned body and to make a serious and valuable contribution to the mental health needs of Society.

Training/Licensing/Certification:

IPA recognised training in Psychoanalysis. Introductory lectures in Psychoanalysis. Other academic contributions, some open to the public.

Affiliations:

Associations to which we are a member:
International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)
British Confederation of Psychotherapists (BCP)

Verification Criteria:

That they have been trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London and their name appears on the Register of Practising Analysts; or they have an equivalent IPA recognised training.