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"The problem with #SCoPEd is that it reinforces a hierarchy that already exists in the therapy world, which puts the psychoanalysts at the top, psychotherapists in the middle, and the counsellors — many of them more likely to be working class & women — at the bottom. 1/
It reinforces this idea that there is pure gold at the top that dribbles down until it turns into copper or something even worse at the bottom.
WE NEED TO RECOGNISE THAT THIS PURE GOLD IS *EVERYWHERE*. 2/
WE NEED TO RECOGNISE THAT THIS PURE GOLD IS *EVERYWHERE*. 2/
Some psychoanalysts don't always do psychoanalysis (...). Some people who are trained as counsellors do psychoanalysis in their sessions.
SCoPEd categorises people depending on the length of their trainings & the amount of money they spend. It reinforces a class hierarchy. 3/
SCoPEd categorises people depending on the length of their trainings & the amount of money they spend. It reinforces a class hierarchy. 3/
It's absolutely dreadful (...) I think we should really be against it."
#IanParker (CPUK) today at @FreudMusLondon & Free Associations conference on 'Psychoanalysis & the Public Sphere: Social Fault Lines' (19-20 & 26-27 Sep 2020)
@UKCP @BritPsyCouncil @BACP
#IanParker (CPUK) today at @FreudMusLondon & Free Associations conference on 'Psychoanalysis & the Public Sphere: Social Fault Lines' (19-20 & 26-27 Sep 2020)
@UKCP @BritPsyCouncil @BACP
