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 at [...]
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 - [...]