Robert Elliot expresses deep concerns about the recent meeting of the HPCE ERG. He appears to believe that working with the transference requires 'interpretation' from an 'expert'. This perception is dated and does not take into account growing edge developements in Integrative and Humanistic psychotherapy over the past 20 years. He is out of step with most Integrative psychotherapists and contemporay Dialogical Gestalt psychotherapists who work with conscious and unconscious process, but in a thoroughly humanistic way.
His blog reads more like purism than pluralism to me.
The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Humanistic and Integrative Section , which represents some 2,600 registered psychotherapists have been under represented in the HPCE ERG (one person).
It is not surprising that having felt marginalised by HPCE ERG Integrative Humanistic psychotherapists are now wanting their voice to be heard. The current draft occupational standards are simply not fit for purpose in that they do not adequately reflect the work of 2,600 psychotherapists in the UK, and many more across Europe.
Only lately have Integrative Humanistic psychotherapists really been consulted and after vigorous objection to the draft standards and to the proces of marginalisation.
Thursday 5 March 2009
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