Welcome to Bulletin 6
Self, other and society - UKCP's annual conference in York , 3-5 September 2010
*please note this event is now cancelled, click here for further information*
This short bulletin is about our spectacular and timely annual conference in York, from Friday 3 September to Sunday 5 September. The conference starts at 1pm on the Friday and ends with lunch on the Sunday, which will help make travel plans easier. We'd like to suggest that friends and colleagues think about travelling together. At the conference, we're going to do our best to make sure that no-one, particularly first timers, gets lost in conference space.
The all-in residential price for UKCP members is £360 (trainee/student £290). The non-residential price is £240 (trainee/student £160). To reserve a place, contact Lydia Dumont on 020 7014 9966 or . Alternatively, you can download a conference programme and booking form from www.psychotherapy.org.uk/selfotherandsociety.
David Pink, UKCP Chief Executive, and Andrew Samuels, UKCP Chair
A conference to consider the bigger question
UKCP is making huge strides with its diversity, equalities and social responsibility agenda and this conference exemplifies the trend. We think that the contribution of psychotherapy to debates and issues in the public sphere is arguably a far bigger question with more at stake than even the matter of regulation which exercises us all so passionately.
The 21st century has brought with it new challenges for society and for our profession. In a world of increasing stress and crisis, psychotherapeutic work with the marginalised and the unwanted can take us beyond the traditional scope of our clinical practice. Collectively and individually, we need to respond to current societal issues and social phenomena, develop psychotherapeutic perspectives to global change, and improve access to psychological support for all sections of society.
Providing psychotherapy in transient spaces, with psychosocial tensions, or with marginalization and disability inevitably touches on deeper issues of power, authority, identity, individuality and conformity.
Psychotherapy, policy making and research
The conference also offers you an opportunity to think about and debate the compatibilities and tensions between the psychotherapy field and policy makers' current thinking about wellbeing in public services. On the final day, a panel of researchers will explore how research can improve the lives and the effectiveness of practitioners and develop ideas of what practitioners should be demanding from research.
An interactive event
At the conference, you will meet speakers, panellists and facilitators from all modalities who contribute clinical skills and resources to meet these challenges and share their theoretical, ethical or philosophical considerations. But this is an interactive event and you will have many opportunities to explore and discuss such clinical challenges with presenters and facilitators, from working with the social unconscious to military service trauma, internet phenomena and climate change. There will also be two assemblies scheduled during the conference where the state of UKCP and the full range professional political issues can be discussed.
Keynote speakers
The list of keynote speakers and the topics that we've mentioned show both the range and the quality of what is on offer:
Valerie Sinason, Camila Batmanghelidjh, Dieter Nitzgen, Sue Gerhardt, Mary-Jayne Rust, George Marshall, Aaron Balick, Renos Papadopoulos, Richard Evans, Carmen Joanne Ablack, Merete Holm Brantbjerg.
We look forward to seeing you there.
David and Andrew
CORRECTION TO BULLETIN 5
Support groups for black and Asian psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors
In Bulletin 5 there was an error in one of the email addresses. For those interested in the support group for black and Asian psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors, the email address for Eugene Ellis is .
Please accept our apologies for the error. If you have already sent a response and have not heard anything, please re-send your message to the correct address above.
As a reminder, if you are interested in joining this support group, please let us know:
- your views about the idea in general
- what sort of support you would prefer: face-to-face, SKYPE, online chat?
- whether the group should be: UK wide, national, regional, local
- anything else you consider significant.
To tell us what you think or to find out more, contact: Eugene Ellis ()
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