A Submission into Parliament – Statement on Statutory Regulation in Counselling & Psychotherapies : 20th January 2025 : Julia Evans
Statement on Statutory Regulation in Counselling & Psychotherapies : 20th January 2025 : Julia Evans NOTE : This was lost in transit by Royal Mail twice, so finally reached Parliament on Thursday 20th March 2025.The following statement was sent to Ms Layla Moran MP, Chair of Health and Social Care Committee, with this introductory letter: Dear Ms Moran, The link [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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’ [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
First Writings (Premiers Écrits) : 23rd January 2023 : Jacques Lacan
Published Le champ freudian, collection fondée par Jacques Lacan, aux Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 23rd January 2023 Translated by Russell Grigg, First Writings by Jacques Lacan, Polity Press, October 2024 Collaboration à la réalisation de ce volume Coordination, Guy Briole. Responsable de l’édition des textes, Pénélope Fay, avec Anne Brunet, Geneviève Cloutour-Monribot, Judith Couture, Françoise Kovache, Patricia Loubet, Bérengère Nicolas, [...]
Against the UK Government’s use of work as a treatment – THREE TEXTS : October 2022 : Jay Watts & Partners for Counselling & Psychotherapy (PCP)
- The Government’s New Mental Health Funding Will Be Spent on ‘Helping’ Depressed People Into Work - The Tories are scapegoating mental health claimants for their own lack of policy : 14 October 2022 : Jay Watts https://novaramedia.com/2022/10/14/the-governments-new-mental-health-funding-will-be-spent-on-helping-depressed-people-into-work/ or here - THERAPISTS AGAINST THE WORK CURE : 13 October 2022 : Statement from Partners for Counselling & Psychotherapy (PCP) https://www.partnersforcounsellingandpsychotherapy.co.uk/therapists-against-the-work-cure/ [...]
Performative Jouissance and Analytic Act [1] : 6th October 2022 : Éric Laurent
Originally published on 6th October 2022 as orientation text in the Newsletter of the 52nd Journées de l’École de la Cause freudienne: “Je suis ce que je dis. Dénis contemporains de l’inconscient”. Available online. https://journees.causefreudienne.org/la-jouissance-performative-et-lacte-analytique/ Translated from the French by Florencia F.C. Shanahan Published at the Lacanian Review Online, LRO 368, on 18th January 2023, https://www.thelacanianreviews.com/performative-jouissance-and-analytic-act1/ References & Notes - [...]
Meeting the Subjectivity of our Time : 6th June 2022 : Thomas Svolos
Published in The Lacanian Review No 12 (American Lacan), p149-160, June 2022. Download at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Lacan (October 1966) Preface to section : ‘Lacan, at the Moment’ by Cristina Rose Laurita p140 of The Lacanian Review No 12 (2022) As we mark the 40th anniversary of Lacan’s death, we ask: How is Lacanian psychoanalysis alive today? Particularly in the US [...]
The Push-to-THE-Woman : 3rd April 2022 (Paris) : Dominique Laurent
Dominique Laurent originally gave this text at the ‘Grandes Assises virtuelles internationales de l’AMP - La femme n’existe pas’ - on 3rd April 2022, at the Maison de la mutualité, Paris and on Zoom. Dominique Laurent is an Analyst Member of the School, a member of the ECF and WAP. She practices psychoanalysis in Paris. Translated by Raphael Montague [...]
Why the Analyst Has to (Re)claim the Role of the Cuckoo (LRO 333) : 23rd March 2022 : Paulina Tanterl
Circulated From: NLS-Messager, Subject: [nls-messager] 4191.en/ LRO 333: "Why the Analyst Has to (Re)claim the Role of the Cuckoo", Date: 23 March 2022 at 10:02:18 GMT Published As Why the Analyst Has to (Re)claim the Role of the Cuckoo (LRO 333) : By Paulina Tanterl | Vienna, Austria| March 23rd, 2022| The Lacanian Review On-line (LRO 333) Available at [...]
Freud’s Fixierung and the real : 10th March 2022 : Avi Rybnicki
Towards the XXth NLS Psychoanalysis Congress – Fixation & repetition – July 2022 – Zurich, Switzerland. Circulated by NLS-Messager, New Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis – Messager, Subject: [nls-messager] 4177.en/ TUCHÉ : "Fixierung & Wiederholung". Available https://nlscongress2022.amp-nls.org/blogposts/freuds-fixierung-and-the-real-1 Or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z (Rybnicki) *** Circulated From: NLS-Messager New Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis - Messager Subject: [nls-messager] 4177.en/ TUCHÉ : "Fixierung [...]
The accidental in Freud’s repetition : 10th March 2022 : Sarah Birgani
Towards the XXth NLS Psychoanalysis Congress – Fixation & repetition – July 2022 – Zurich, Switzerland. Circulated by NLS-Messager New Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis – Messager Subject: [nls-messager] 4177.en/ TUCHÉ : "Fixierung & Wiederholung". Available https://nlscongress2022.amp-nls.org/blogposts/the-accidental-in-freuds-repetition & www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z (Birgani) _________________________________ Circulated From: NLS-Messager New Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis - Messager Subject: [nls-messager] 4177.en/ TUCHÉ : "Fixierung [...]
Laughing at norms : 21st November 2021 (Lyons) : Éric Laurent
Éric Laurent is a psychoanalyst practicing in Paris, France. ' He is an Analyst Member of the School, and a member of the EBP, ECF, EOL, NEL, and NLS. Lecture first given at the 51st Conference of the ECF, Lyon, on 21st November 2021. This text first appeared in French as "Rire des norms” in La Cause du Désir, [...]
The Cartel and the Desire of the School : 2nd October 2021 (London) : Joanne Conway
This text was presented at the cartel day of the London Society, on 2nd of October 2021. Published p4-6 of 4+One The NLS Cartels’ Newsletter n° 18, July 2022, https://www.amp-nls.org/newsletter-4one/ Also available on www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z (Conway) Editorial from 4+One The NLS Cartels' Newsletter, 18 Each text in this issue whilst a singular product of work with its [...]
Transmissions of ‘Bits of Real’ in a Lacanian Criminology Workshop (LRO 312) : 29th September 2021 : René Raggenbass
Circulated by New Lacanian School Messager, as [nls-messager] 3997.en/ LRO 312: "Transmissions of 'Bits of Real' in a Lacanian Criminology Workshop", on 29th September 2021 Published by The Lacanian Reviews Online, https://www.thelacanianreviews.com/transmissions-of-bits-of-real-in-a-lacanian-criminology-workshop/ Also available with notes from www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z (Raggenbass) Background – that of a working group Quote Raggenbass : A group of people active in the [...]
The Royal College of Psychiatrists & Lacanian in the UK : Comments developing Éric Laurent’s ‘The Culture of Abusive Treatments’ (LQ 930/LRO 308) (8th January 2021) : 3rd July 2021 : Julia Evans
Background Éric Laurent’s text, dated 8th January 2021, was written in response to a text by Dorothy Bishop and Joel Swendsen, published in the BJPsych Bulletin, which slanders Jacques Lacan and his students. This journal is an organ of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Éric Laurent sent his critique in English to the Editor-in-Chief, Norman Poole, who has ignored [...]
A Vision of the Streaming of the One : March 2021 : Éric Laurent
Published in Psychoanalytical Notebooks, 37/38, December 2021. Available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Laurent (December 2021) Availability of references _______________________________ A Map of Lituraterre : Richard Klein NOTE This essay appears to be extracted and partially modified from the Seminar XVIII (1970‐1971) D’un discourse qui ne serait pas du semblant, the session of 12 May 1971. For a comparison of the two, see [...]