Members Page - Society for Existential Analysis (SEA).

Sunday, February 28, 2010

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The Members Page

As this page develops you will find information and links about all things current in the world of Existential Analysis.

We are hoping that our Members will take advantage of the online forum and contribute to the development of our Private Members Pages. This is a place for members to share their thought without publishing them to the world. This is the beginning, where this goes is up to you!

Members - Please feel free to send us an e-mail if you have any questions or have an article you would like to share with your fellow Members online. We look forward to hearing your ideas and working with you to develop this space into an vibrant online community. If you have published in the Journal or Hermeneutic Circular, then why not publish something online.

New Online Forum Access: + Private Members Pages

Will you be the first to have your say and create a topic? To use the Online Forum please confirm your Membership by e-mailing your details to the webmaster. You will also find information about how to enter these areas included in your next copy of the Newsletter.

‘Where this goes is up to you...’

We hope that as this area develops you will find The Members Page and Private members Pages a useful source for information about what is currently going on in the world of Existential Analysis.

Members: Potential content for this area:

• Polls - Have you got a questions you would like to ask Members or visitors to the SEA website?

• Have you got some Existential News that you would like to share with your fellow Members? Therapy rooms to advertise? Want to organise

something Send us a brief

description and the web link.

New web links:

State Regulation of Psychotherapists.

If you are not in favour of the current move towards State regulation of our profession, then you may wish to sign the Petition against this.

The Petition can be found at:

http://www.petitiononline.com/statereg/

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Psyreg/petition.html

Therapy Rooms to Rent:

Lovely consulting room (used by existential therapists) available for rental (monthly or by the hour) in Bloomsbury, central London - for available days/times, further info and contact details please visit

www.therapytime.co.uk

News:

News - September 2008

9th September: Guardian.co.uk - ‘A quick-fix for the Soul’.

Darian Leader writes floridly about the nature of the governments obsession with CBT. He writes: “...denial of the legitimacy of peoples symptoms may have dangerous consequences.” “Therapy is not like a plaster that can be applied to a wound, it is about the encounter of two people.” Reported by Lopa Shah.

News - March 2008

11th March: Guardian.co.uk - ‘When it’s Bad to Talk’.

This is an article that talks about the harmful effects of counselling or therapy (terms interchangeably used). A list of harmful therapies are quoted, such as critical-incident debriefing; recovered-memory techniques; attachment therapy (which involves ‘holding’ children by force) and some form of bereavement counselling. It talks about how some conventional therapies such as psychoanalytic approach lack focus and may concentrate too much on the negative and cites cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) as a more focused and positive approach, and implied in that therefore less harmful. Members are invited to use the online forum to discuss Existential perspectives on this Guardian article. Reported by Sara Angelini.

News - October 2007

10th October: ‘More funds for Talking Therapies’ - The Government is to spend millions more on “Talking Treatments” for Depression and Anxiety in England. The question is however, how will this money be spent? Will it just be on the therapy of choice?

Other headlines of interest also available through the link below:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7037400.stm

News - June 2007

We ask that you are alert to an email request entitled "therapist needed". This appears to be a bona-fide request for therapy from a visitor to the UK requesting help for him and his partner when they visit.

When therapists have responded to this e-mail, explaining that they do not do home visits, and offering their terms and conditions and prices, the sender is delighted and then asks the therapist to send their bank details so that he can transfer money into a bankers draft for advance payment.

This warning was posted on the UKCP website at the end of May this year. The concern is that this is a scam and the purpose is to gain access to your personal banking details. To date, this person has contacted many BASRT therapists across the UK and the correspondence is exactly the same in each case, with specific details around where he or she is staying altered to each individual that is contacted.

The UKCP contacted the Internet fraud team and also alerted other Counselling and Psychotherapy associations.

If you would like more information about the content of our website or would like more information or help with any technical aspects - please contact the Webmaster & Editor:

Jonathan Lee Champion

webmaster@existentialanalysis.co.uk

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