Contents:

• Features
  • Travels through therapy

    • The author and journalist Sally Brampton went through four psychoanalysts and was about to abandon therapy altogether when she found the therapist who helped her believe in the possibility of life after depression

  • The therapy maze

    • Research finds that there are a host of obstacles to overcome for people considering seeing a therapist. Isn’t it time then for the therapist community to respond to prospective clients in more customer-friendly ways?

  • Both sides now (1)

    • In April’s issue Simon Proudlock argued the need for therapists to come together to present a united front. His appeal met with mixed reactions, as these responses show

  • Both sides now (2)

    • In April's issue Simon Proudlock argued the need for therapists to come together to present an united front. His apeal met with mixed reactions, as these responses show

  • Finding my voice

    • With a glittering career as an opera singer ahead of her, Linda Esther Gray’s ambitions came to a halt after illness forced her into early retirement. She explains how therapy helped her come to terms with her loss

  • My body, my rights

    • As troubled teenager in the 1970s, Laura Deacon stopped eating as a way to numb her feelings. Degraded by the treatment she received from the medical establishment, she passionately believes in the individual’s right to determine the fate of his or her own body – even to the point of death by starvation

  • Sounds and echoes

    • Are terms like projection, introjection and projective identification adequate when it comes to analysing the complex nature of interpersonal relationships, or might we be able to find more meaningful metaphors?

  • Teaching support

    • A pioneering support service is applying established models of counselling supervision to provide valuable time for independent consultation and reflection for teachers

  • No quick fix

    • With a background in teaching and educational psychology, BACP’s new vice-president Robert Burden is passionate about the role therapy can play in boosting young people’s self-esteem

• Regulars
  • News
    • Better access to emotional support for pupils

      • The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) says schools need ambitious reform to improve learning and enhance young people’s wellbeing

    • High cost of debt on mental health

      • Being in debt can make mental health problems worse, according to a new survey of 1,800 people in debt published by Mind

    • Mind award winners 2008

      • Dr Liz Miller, a practising GP who has written and spoken openly about her experience of living with bipolar disorder, has been announced as Mind Champion of the Year 2008

    • High risk of PTSD for Burmese relief workers

      • Burmese relief workers struggling to get supplies to the victims of Cyclone Nargis are at high risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, experts warn. The problem is exacerbated by Burma’s initial decision not to allow foreign relief workers in, putting excessive additional stress on local staff

    • Growing self-harm epidemic

      • New research commissioned by Affinity Healthcare, a mental healthcare provider for the NHS, has found that a third of UK girls aged 11 to 19 have tried to harm themselves

    • Children ‘too embarrassed’ to talk about problems

      • When asked who they would talk to about a big personal problem, an online poll of 1,024 young people aged under 16 has found that only 8 per cent would talk to a social or healthcare worker

    • Sight loss support pilot project

      • The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) with support from GlaxoSmithKline has launched a pilot project to offer emotional support and counselling to people recently diagnosed with or experiencing deteriorating sight loss

    • Need for wider recognition of antenatal depression

      • Recent research by the NHS has found that more women suffer from depression during pregnancy than after the birth, yet antenatal depression is relatively unrecognised

    • Mental health anti-stigma coalition

      • Leading mental health charities Rethink and Mind have joined forces with the Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health Media to form a new coalition

    • Awards success

      • Mothertongue multi-ethnic counselling, a BACP accredited service, won first place

    • Fear of terrorism negatively affects health

      • Research by a team at Tel-Aviv University published in the current issue of the British Journal of Health Psychology, has found that living under the continuous fear of terror can harm your health

    • Depressed dads may cut interaction with their children

      • Children whose fathers are depressed have smaller vocabularies than those who do not, a US study suggests

    • Slimmers skip meals for alcohol

      • 'Drunkorexia’ has been coined as a term to describe the growing phenomenon of young women who skip meals to restrict their daily calorie intake

  • Editorial

    • In this issue we think about the client as consumer. For those of you who cringe at all things to do with ‘customer relations’, please bear with me

  • Letters
    • Yalom and death

      • Yalom has always been interested in death. I remember reading his book on existential analysis years ago and remarking on his five chapters on death anxiety

    • Questioning the work of a true master

      • There are a couple of points I’d like to raise in response to Yalom’s poignant and beautifully written piece, published in the May issue of therapy today.

    • Another example of bad faith?
    • What’s happened to not knowing?

      • I applaud Simon Proudlock (‘Presenting a united front’, therapy today, April 2008) when he celebrates the diversity of modalities and styles in which counsellors work

    • Embedded counselling and pastoral care

      • We welcome John McLeod’s article on embedded counselling (‘Outside the therapy room’, therapy today, May 2008). The Association for Pastoral Care and Counselling (APCC), since the foundation of the British Association for Counselling (BAC)

    • A client’s right to help

      • Taking the window of opportunity offered by a bank holiday, I have been catching up on my backlog of neglected tasks and doing a bit of processing. And there, as part of that backlog, were the April and May copies of therapy today still un-opened.

  • Reviews
    • Couple attachments

      • Couple attachments: theoretical and clinical studies, Molly Ludlam and Viveka Nyberg (eds) Karnac 2007 ISBN 978-1855754522 £19.99

    • The myth of the chemical cure

      • The myth of the chemical cure: a critique of psychiatric drug treatment, Joanna Moncrieff Palgrave Macmillan 2008 ISBN 978-0-230-57431-1 £50 hb

    • CBT workbook for dummies

      • Cognitive behavioural therapy workbook for dummies, Rhena Branch and Rob Willson John Wiley 2007 ISBN 978-0-470-51701-7 £15.99

    • The transpersonal in psychology, psychotherapy and counselling

      • The transpersonal in psychology, psychotherapy and counselling, Andrew Shorrock Palgrave Macmillan 2008 ISBN 978-0-230-51776-9 £45 hb

    • When good enough therapy goes wrong

      • The mirror crack’d: when good enough therapy goes wrong and other cautionary tales for humanistic practitioners,  Anne Kearns (ed) Karnac 2007 ISBN 978-1-85575-423-2 £19.99

    • The resilient clinician

      • The resilient clinician, Robert J Wicks Oxford University Press 2008 ISBN 978-0-195-31697-1 £17.99

    • Passionate supervision

      • Passionate supervision, Robin Shohet (ed) Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2008 ISBN 978-1-843-10556-5 £14.99

    • Journey through psychotherapy and self-harm

      • Cutting it out: a journey through psychotherapy and self-harm, Carolyn Smith Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2006 ISBN 978-1-843-10266-3 £12.99

    • Narrative inquiry & psychotherapy

      • Narrative inquiry & psychotherapy, Jane Speedy, Palgrave Macmillan 2007 ISBN 978-0-333-99026-1 £20.99

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• BACP
  • BACP News
    • BACP News

      • News from your Association

  • BACP Professional Conduct
    • Withdrawal of membership
    • Withdrawal of membership
    • Withdrawal of membership
    • BACP Professional Conduct Hearing Findings, decision and sanction
    • Withdrawal of membership
  • BACP Professional Standards
    • BACP Professional Standards

      • Newly accredited counsellors/psychotherapists

  • BACP Research
    • What research tells us
      • Over 250 delegates and presenters attended the 14th Annual Research Conference in Cardiff in May to find out what research has to tell us about the efficacy of therapy
    • Invitation to tender
      • for research into sexual boundary violations in counselling & psychotherapy
    • Finding funding
      • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
    • Living with ME

      • A new report published in the current issue of Counselling and Psychotherapy Research (CPR) provides important information into what is and isn’t helpful for counsellors working with clients who live with ME