A recent article in The Times about the UK government's intention to regulate the psychotherapy and counselling industry provokes contributions to the letters page (18/7/08).
Andrew Samuels, of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex University, says it's time for the government to rethink how it conducts its review.
He concedes that psychotherapists may have brought this on themselves: "We psychotherapists probably do have ourselves to blame for not presenting ourselves well. Caught between unnecessary mystification and bogus science, ravaged by ideological splits and the narcissism of small differences, a profession seemingly open to anyone to practise — it can seem to those who don’t follow these things closely that it has become only too necessary for the Government to act. But the total shambles of the exercises being carried out by Skills for Health and the Health Professions Council mean that it is timely to call a halt."
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