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Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Therapy, 1) in the future of NHS Talking Therapies 2) in state therapy with the hollowing out of intersubjectivity : 14th January 2025 : Paul Atkinson

The links for these texts were received on 14th January 2025. Both texts on AI therapy are on the Mental Health Action website: Part 1 Machina Ex Deo: AI and the future of NHS Talking Therapies https://mentalhealthaction.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ai-part-1-p-atkinson.pdf Part 2 Machina Ex Deo: State therapy and the hollowing out of intersubjectivity https://mentalhealthaction.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ai-part-2-p-atkinson-2.pdf Both texts focus on what is happening in the UK and have ramifications for other countries who may follow suit. Both come from [...]

2025-01-21T10:08:55+00:0014/01/2025|

Don’t just do something – The vanishing art of sitting there in counselling & psychotherapy : 9th December 2024 : Andy Rogers

This link is published here as Andy Rogers’ position is alongside a Lacanian position in the transference & he makes many interesting observations. The Link : https://www.andyrogerscounselling.com/therapy-blog/2024/12/09/dont-just-do-something-vanishing-art-sitting-there-counselling-psychotherapy Andy and I (Julia Evans) have been alongside since 2008 as members of the Alliance for Psychotherapy and Counselling. There follows a related list of texts from the Alliance or other members of the Alliance. 2024 The Alliance for Counselling & Psychotherapy : Statement on Statutory Regulation [...]

2024-12-19T16:33:04+00:0009/12/2024|

Voices from the INSIDE (Prisons) : 24th November 2024 : Rona Epstein (Centre for Crime & Justice Studies)

A report from the Centre for Crime & Justice Studies (https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/voices-inside ) on condition in prisons Reasons for linking to this report - it relies on testimonies from individuals – one by one - it is a case study in what systematic inhumanity produces, both in prisoners and prison officers I, Julia Evans, have categorised it under its author’s name, Rona Epstein, & Case Studies, see d) from Other Fields (1 A Lacanian Clinic/A Case [...]

2025-09-29T15:08:50+01:0024/11/2024|

Statement on Statutory Regulation of Counselling and Psychotherapy : 2nd November 2024 : The Alliance for Counselling & Psychotherapy

The Statement that has been sent into the Parliamentary Health & Social Care Committee is available from Statement on Statutory Regulation in Counselling & Psychotherapies : 20th January 2025 : Julia Evans at this site / b) Ethics & Treatments (2 Engagement with beyond/ Government Action)**************************************************************Additional Guardian articles & text were added to this text on 9th November 2024. JE Declaration of interest : I, Julia Evans, have been involved in inputting into the Government [...]

2025-02-06T12:49:13+00:0002/11/2024|

Take it from a psychologist – Rishi Sunak’s callous crusade on welfare will have disastrous consequences : 1st May 2024 : Jay Watts

Targeting people who need support for depression and anxiety will only make these growing problems worse : Opinion Disability - The Guardian : Wed 1 May 2024 13.00 BST Available at https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/may/01/rishi-sunak-welfare-support-depression-anxiety Reasons for posting this text It draws attention to the Government’s throwing away those with ‘mental health’ conditions, that is all of us, its subjects. It is clear that the practitioner’s position is against the Government and aligns their position with the [...]

2024-08-16T13:00:15+01:0001/05/2024|

A Guided Extravagance : 6th February 2024 : Éric Laurent

Towards the XIV Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysts, 22-25 February 2024 (Zoom), “All the world is mad”, see https://congresamp2024.world/tout-le-monde-est-fou/ Circulated From: Secrétaire AMP - Uqbar Wapol Subject: Eric Laurent vers le XIVe congrès de l’AMP Tout le monde est fou - Español, Português, English, Italiano Date: 8 February 2024 at 09:35:24 GMT Translated by Amal Wahbi Available at https://uqbarwapol.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Eric-Laurent-Traductions.pdf&www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Laurent (February 2024) References -Laurent: In his aphorism, Lacan first evokes the dream, then [...]

2025-05-01T17:12:40+01:0006/02/2024|

Psychopractice Regulation, SCoPEd – Generating Psychotherapathy? : 3rd July 2023 : Denis Postle

Published by The Alliance for Counselling & Psychotherapy [Follow us on Twitter, Tweets from @Alliance4CP] & circulated at https://allianceblogs.wordpress.com/2023/07/03/scoped-generating-psychotherapathy-denis-postle/ Also available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /texts by request – ask for password Further on SCoPEd An Examination of ‘Learned Helplessness’ : 11th December 2014 : Julia Evans. See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Evans Julia or Index of Julia Evans’ texts) Three leading professional regulatory bodies create a new competence framework : 15th January 2019 [...]

2023-09-12T11:27:11+01:0003/07/2023|

The Mad Love of a Mother : July 2023 : Éric Laurent

Éric Laurent is a psychoanalyst and member of the Ecole de la cause freudienne Published PN 40 The Love Event Spring 2023 p71-80 Available www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Laurent Footnote 1 does not exist P71, This subject, produced by a horrific story, has many doctors, judges, educators in her life. [1] She made many appeals for help, and it can be said, grosso modo, that she is basically doing her own thing. She has ideas about everything. [...]

2025-08-21T15:24:26+01:0001/07/2023|

It is time we stopped colluding : 10th March 2023 : Paul Atkinson

This is recommended for its detailed research into UK Government current provisions. JE Introduction by Paul Atkinson I argue here that we psychotherapists in the private sector bear our own share of responsibility for the institutionalization of a two-tier system of psychological care and therapy. We are on aggregate a profession of the self-employed, focused on the self-development of the individual who can afford to pay our fees. As a profession we appear to be [...]

2023-10-04T08:50:23+01:0010/03/2023|

From Patient to Practitioner : 1st February 2023 : Ganesh Anantharaman

Published in ‘Seminar web-edition’, New Delhi, India, #762 MENTAL HEALTH LANDSCAPE a symposium on psychosocial disability at https://www.india-seminar.com/semframe.html (3rd down left-hand column) Other texts by Ganesh Anantharaman www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /authors a-z (Anantharaman) The intention is to transfer all posts from www.LacanianWorks.net to this website, www.LacanianWorks.org. Should any still be in the queue, then go to https://web.archive.org and type in lacanianworks.net - go to the calendar and pick a date -or go to https://web.archive.org/LacanianWorks.net or go [...]

2023-12-28T12:00:42+00:0001/02/2023|