[Lutecium-group] TR: Urgent : appel de fonds en faveur de la lutte de nos collègues anglais

Tue Apr 6 17:42:22 UTC 2010

Chers collègues

Une loi empêchant toute pratique freudienne ou lacanienne de la psychanalyse
risque d'être votée de façon imminente en Angleterre. Elle comporte en effet
un nombre impressionnant de règles soi disant techniques ou déontologiques
absurdes et coercitives du style explication des interprétations, scanners
du cerveau et ainsi de suite... Vous trouverez les détails sur les liens
ci-dessous. Tout praticien pourra être attaqué en justice sur dénonciation
si cette loi passe. Notre collègue Darian Leader et d'autres psychanalystes
attaquent ce projet devant la cour. Ils doivent pour cela prendre conseil
auprès d'avocats spécialisés aux honoraires élevés et risquent de payer les
frais de justice. Une campagne de levée de fonds a donc été lancée, dont
vous trouverez le détail ci-dessous. Plusieurs associations
psychanalytiques, notamment allemandes, et françaises dont le Collège de
psychanalystes d'ALEPH et Savoirs et clinique ont décidé de les soutenir
moralement et financièrement. Cette lutte nous concerne en effet de très
près : l'Angleterre est proche, elle est en Europe, et nous devons être tous
solidaires face aux menaces réelles sur la psychanalyse.

Geneviève Morel, psychanalyste à Paris et à Lille.

Fighting Fund for the Talking Therapies

As you may know, the Government plans to introduce statutory regulation for
psychotherapists and counsellors via the Health Professions Council (HPC).
The initial consultation concluded that HPC was the wrong regulator, as it
applies medical-style models of healthcare management to a field which, for
a large part, does not subscribe to these models and values.

The talking therapies have always offered a system of values that is
independent of those of the State, and if the current proposals are pushed
through by government, it will no longer be possible to practice
psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in the way they have been practised for the
last 100 years. HPC regulations would effectively destroy analytic practice
and deprive each individual of their free choice as to which therapist they
could consult.

If you’d like to know more about what’s going on, please look at The
Maresfield Report which is available at www.psyreg.co.uk and also have a
look at the websites www.coregp.org or www.allianceforcandp.org.

We are fighting here for the heart and soul of our profession and for the
ability to offer a wide variety of approaches tailored to the individual,
rather than imposing mechanistic ‘treatments’ applied to passive recipients,
with false promises of public protection. Psychotherapy and counselling
involve relationships between people and cannot be reduced to the model of a
business transaction or a medical intervention like the prescription of a
drug.

We have been lobbying now against HPC for more than a year and several
groups have decided to take this further via legal action. We’re organising
a fighting fund to instruct a top constitutional law firm with a leading QC
to fight these plans. HPC were required to assess the 'regulatory needs' of
the field and its own suitability as a regulator, yet they have neglected
both of these tasks. Legal challenge will hopefully make a proper
consultation on these issues necessary, which would include all
stakeholders. While nothing is guaranteed, at the very least we would hope
to achieve delay, rethinking and proposals more suited to our profession.
The best case scenario is that we can make the Government – especially the
NEXT Government – think again about taking forward proposals which have
unprecedented levels of objection and opposition from our field.

We are seeking to raise money for this fund from individuals and
organisations in our field. If you care about the talking therapies and want
to help, please ACT NOW.  Any donation, however small, will help.  We
already have many pledges towards the £200,000 we may need to raise.  You
can pay by instalments or give us a single sum. Details of the legal
challenge and of how the money is being spent will be posted at
www.psyreg.co.uk.

Here are the details:

Transfer is the best method of payment: please send to:

JR Fighting Fund, Lloyds Bank

Sort Code 30-00-04, Account 02101964

 IBAN is GB87 LOYD 3000 0402 1019 64

 BIC is LOYDGB21019

or send cheques made out to:

‘JR Fighting Fund’

to Pine Cottage, Thornden Wood Road,

Herne Bay, Kent CT6 7NZ. 

Hoping that you’ll be able to support our campaign.

With thanks and best wishes

Christopher Bollas, Julia Carne, Anouchka Grose, Dorothy Hamilton, David
Henderson, Darian Leader, Haya Oakley, Susie Orbach, Adam Phillips, Werner
Prall, Simona Revelli, Andrew Samuels (personal capacity), Joe Suart, Jason
Wright, Slavoj Zizek .

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