A response to ‘To resist is to exist’ by Martin Kemp and Eliana Pinto

"The recent spate of correspondence over the publication in Therapy Today of ‘To resist is to exist’ by Martin Kemp and Eliana Pinto (March 2009) has raised the ire of many readers, despite the BACP statement that BACP ‘has no position or policy with regard to Middle East politics’"

Trauma: the unreported casualty of war

"In the March issue of this journal, two psychotherapists wrote about the psychological impact of military occupation on the Palestinian people. In response, David Bedein reports from Sderot on the effects of Palestinian rocket fire on the city's residents"

Palestine: to resist is to exist

"We have received an unprecedented amount of correspondence, both negative and positive, in reponse to last month's article 'To resist is to exist'. More of this can be read here (see 'related articles, right)"

To resist is to exist

"Notes on the psychological impact of military occupation in Palestine"

Learning zone

Dilemmas

This month's dilemma: Would you break confidentiality if a reluctant client fails to attend, or respond to letters while owing money?

Student column

The student column will resume again shortly, with a new columnist

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research (CPR)

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Failure of judgement
by

Dorothy Brown

Lin Coleman

Elizabeth Saiman

We are writing to register our concern and dismay at the article 'To resist is to exist' in the March issue of Therapy Today. The official BACP journal is no place for a political article.

We object that our membership fees go towards supporting a partisan political stance and we ask for some acknowledgement of this failure of ethical judgment in the next issue of Therapy Today.
Dorothy Brown, Lin Coleman, Elizabeth Saiman