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RECENT PSYCHOTHERAPY ACTIVITIES: June 2003: Moved to Edinburgh: obtained 6-month locum contract as a "Psychological Therapist" in Clinical Psychology Dept. NHS Lanarkshire, extended to 9-months. Wrote 2 chapters in "Handbook of Body-Psychotherapy" (link and link) (translated into German to be published by Schattauer, 2006). Revised EABP Training Standards & also EABP Membership Criteria & Conditions. Applied for European Certificate in Psychotherapy from EAP. Wrote 1st draft of "Help Yourself Towards Mental Health" - Handbook for People with issues of Depression, Anxiety & Low Self-Esteem, originally for Clinical Psychology Dept. from client notes. 2004: Wrote 4th draft of "Under the Skin: A handbook of Psychophysiology." Wrote extended articles on "Ethics of Psychotherapy in Europe" (Part 1 & Part 2) for International Journal of Psychotherapy and also started an extended article "Physiological Theory of Evolution" Appointed Counsellor at Cramond Medical Centre; appointed Counsellor at Ratho Medical Centre (NHS Lothian) - both in Aug 2004. Re-wrote extended "Ethics of Touch" internet article. Attended & gave workshop at EAP Congress, Belgrade June 2004; attended & gave plenary presentation & workshop at UKCP Conference, Cambridge, Sept. 2004; Karnac Books have decided to publish "Help Yourself Towards Mental Health"; attended & gave presentation at EABP Congress; Athens Oct 2004; attended EAP meeting and 1st conference ECPP, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Oct 2004. Upgrading 2nd edition of EABP Bibliography on CD-ROM (3,500 + entries) for publication, Spring 2006. Designing research programme with Bessel van der Kolk for EABP: advising others in Body-Psychotherapy about their projects. Reviewing several books. Elected to UK-AHPP Board of Directors as Treasurer. 2005: Invited to present at Group Analytic Society Winter Workshop, "Body and/or Mind", Budapest, Jan. Attended meeting of EAP in Vienna (Feb). Attended course: Outcome Evaluation & Introduction to CORE, Leeds, March. EABP Board meetings: March, Nürnberg, Germany. Attended AChP Conference on Body-Psychotherapy Cambridge, April. Writing several essays and articles on Body-Psychotherapy. Attended & presented at USABP Conference in Tuscon, Arizona, June. Wrote article "Doing Effective Body-Psychotherapy without Touch" Energy & Character, Biosynthesis Journal, Sept 2005. Attended meetings of EAP & EAP Congress in Vilnius, Lithuania, July. EABP Board meeting, August Amsterdam. Invited to be on UKCP / EAP Conference committee. Wrote article: "On Learning from a Suicide" Therapy Today, BACP Journal, Nov 2005; wrote pamphlet: "Coping with Stress: for Health Professionals". Applied for membership of British Psychological Society. Started M.Sc. in Psychological Studies at Glasgow University. Attended EAP Meeting, Budapest, Oct 2005. EABP Board meeting, November, Amsterdam. Awarded European Certificate in Psychotherapy from EAP. Appointed External Moderator: RS-POP-UK. Designing research project in NHS with hypertensives. 2006: Attended meeting of EABP Council of National Associations and Committees, Zurich, Jan. Started new job in Dept of Adult Clinical Psychology, Larbert, NHS Forth Valley: Stopped doing M.Sc.; Attended meetings of EAP, Vienna, Feb; attended meeting EABP Board, Amsterdam, March; Published article: '150 Years of Body-Psychotherapy' published in new journal: Body, Dance & Movement in Psychotherapy: March 2006 Vol 1, No 1, & similar chapter in Taylor & Francis: 'About A Body'; Appointed as Deputy Editor of International Journal of Psychotherapy, editing 3 issues per annum from Nov 2006 onwards; Attended meetings of AHPP & RSPOPUK in London; Gave Body-Psychotherapy workshop on Body-Psychotherapy in Edinburgh: Went to Biosynthesis Conference, Lisbon Portugal in June 2006, giving presentation there; Went to UKCP/EAP Conference in Cambridge in July 2006; Went to EABP Conference & AGM in Askow, Denmark in Sept 2006; attended meetings of HIPS and UKCP in Oct in London. 2007: Attended meetings of AHPP in London in January; Started teaching criminal psychology course at Newbattle Abbey College, Dalkeith; Edited issue of IJP in February; Gave Body-Psychotherapy workshop on Body-Psychotherapy in Edinburgh - in March: Attended EAP meeting in Vienna in February; Attended UKCP AGM in Torquay in March and was elected to be 'Vice-Chair, Registrants Services' of UKCP; Moved to new house in Stow; Attended several meetings of AHPP, UKCP in London throughout the summer; Edited issues of IJP in June; Attended EAP meeting and conference in Florence in June. Started new job in Dept of Clinical Psychology, NE Edinburgh in July; Assisted in the foundation of the M.Sc course in Dance / Movement Psychotherapy at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh; Appointed to Editorial Board of Journal of Body, Dance & Movement in Psychotherapy; Edited issue of IJP for Oct; Attended EAP meeting in Tirana, Albania in Oct - elected to be Co-Chair of ETSC; Also assisted in the foundation of the M.Sc course at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Reflection: "I am doing much too much - thus I am getting totally stressed out. This is slightly (or seriously) ridiculous, and even mildly insane!" Resigned from AHPP Board in October; resigned from UKCP Council and as Vice-Chair in December; focussing now much more on paid clinical & private work, and writing. 2008: Attended no meetings in 1st six months, (Wonderful!) - other than for the QMU accreditation for an M.Sc. in Dance/Movement Psychotherapy. Working extremely hard clinically, giving about 24+ sessions per week. Edited issue of IJP in Feb; submitted article to new (Russian) journal on Psychotherapy on Functional Competencies. Another article - 2nd in series on the history of Body-Psychotherapy - was published in the BDMP Journal (Vol 3, No 1) "The American Legacy of Reich". In May 2008, took 2.5 weeks off walking by self in south-west France; then edited issue of IJP for June (Vol 11, No 2) with own article on "Re-Balancing the ANS". Attended EAP meeting in Brussels in June. Had article published in BDMP Journal (Vol 3, No 2) "A Dance Across the Atlantic." (with Patrizia Pallaro). Edited issue of IJP for Nov. 2008 (Vol 11, No 3). Attended one-day SIGN conference in Edinburgh, establishing effective non-pharmacological treatments for depression. Personal situation with AHPP membership has become increasingly difficult: UKCP registration has now ended (Sept 2008). Decided to attend 5th World Conference of Psychotherapy in Beijing, China in October 2008, giving a poster presentation on "Re-Balancing the ANS as a pre-requisite to effective counselling & psychotherapy"; also visiting Shanghai, Guilin, Xi'an, then Lhasa, Zedong & Chengdu (For details of this trip, please go back a page and click on the link to my 'blog' about the trip to China). Edited issue of IJP for February 2009 (Vol 12, No 1). Broke ankle in mid-December by slipping off computer chair.: luckily NHS medicine is readily accessible in the Scottish borders and everything was 'fixed', bar the 6 weeks in plaster and the very long rehabilitation. Luckily also that it was my left ankle and I have an automatic car, so I could drive. 2009: In February went to EAP meeting in Vienna; followed by a short weekend in Amsterdam (in April) to start work on the Functional Competencies of Psychotherapy project. Accepted a new placement trainee in the GP surgery. A drawn-out complaints process ended and thus my AHPP membership finally ended as well: appealed to UKCP-HIPS. Helped a colleague edit special issue of IJP on Depression (Vol 13, No 2) and wrote an article with Laura Steckler on "Depression and Body Psychotherapy"; then took a one-week holiday in Lanzarote in May. Started editing work on future issues of the Journal of Body, Movement & Dance in Psychotherapy (BMDP), because no editorial assistant at present. Attended EAP meeting and conference in Lisbon in July; good for CPD. Did more work on BMDP Journal (Vol. 4, No. 3) with Vicky Karkou; more work on IJP Journal for Nov 2009 (Vol. 13, No 3). Then took a 2-week holiday on the island of Brac, in Croatia in Aug. with Laura. Being recorded for "USABP Conversations" in Sept/Oct. Wrote an article on Spiritual Emergencies and on an earlier "Soul Awakening" article, entitled "Strange Changes in Psychotherapy" was accepted for the IJP. Went to a 'placement managers' meeting at University. Went to EAP meeting in Graz, Austria in October and finalised proposal (plus questionnaire) for EAP project on Functional Competencies. Accepted at EAP Individual Member: renewed ECP. Working on next IJP issue (Vol 14, No 1). Agreed to act as Editor for the English-American edition of the massive 'Handbook of Body-Psychotherapy' (edited Gustl Marlock & Halko Weiss, published Schattauer, 2006, in German) - that is all my spare time taken up for the next year: but what a privileged piece of work! The EABP Bibliography of Body-Psychotherapy (with over 4,000 entries) went on-line. Worked on BMDP Journal (Vol 5, No. 1) with my 3rd article on the History of B-P, "European Diversity", though I had to split it into two parts. The 1st article in a series on the Science of B-P is being published by USABP Journal, and I also worked on 2nd & 3rd article (see Articles page). Finished next IJP issue (Vol 14, No 1) including my article on Spiritual Emergence processes. Accepted a new placement trainee in GP surgery. Put a proposal for new Salisbury Centre Counselling Service in to the pipeline. 2010: Jan: 3 weeks of deep snow: garden very pretty, but quite wearing. Finished editing Spring edition of Journal of Body, Movement & Dance in Psychotherapy; pushing on with doing the English edit of Handbook of B-P (99 chapters and 100 pages) and 'learning' lots more about the deeper aspects of B-P, much of which I had already intuited - I am glad to say; was re-recorded for USABP 'Conversations'; started 12-week course on Counselling Supervision at Edinburgh University; started new part-time (18 hrs pw) contract with NHS Lothian for 2 months, reducing counselling waiting lists in NW Edinburgh; compiled (so far, 23) results of EAP questionnaire on Functional Competencies; had the proposal for a low-cost counselling service accepted by the Salisbury Centre trustees; sent out an appeal against the AHPP membership decision; in February, attended a 1.5 day conference & EAP meetings in Vienna and the EAP Board unanimously supported the project on establishing the Professional Competencies of a European Psychotherapist that I have been pushing for several years. March was very busy with the Counselling Supervision course; the extra NHS work; my youngest daughter's wedding and the AHPP appeal (which failed). April involved an Easter weekend trip to the Lake District to see an old friend; the extension of the extra NHS work; the news that my book with Karnac is coming out soon (details here); work on the next issue of the IJP. Also in April, I made a short trip to Zürich to meet with Prof. Berhard Strauss (Jena Univ.) and the EAP Working Group on Functional Competencies; as well as working on an article on Phenomenological Psychotherapy (to be published in the IJP in Oct 2010) and an article about Modalities and Mainstreams for the World Journal of Psychotherapy. My book "Help Yourself Towards Mental Health" has just been published by Karnac Books (someone please write a review) - it has taken nearly 6 years since signing the contract (July 2004)! I am also going through a final appeals process with the UKCP about AHPP, and it is great that UKCP have accepted that there is indeed a prima facie case, so my appeal can go forward. Finished the July issue of the IJP and re-started on editing the English-American edition of Handbook of Body Psychotherapy. Attended the EAP meeting in Bucharest, Romania in early July and presented a workshop on Spiritual Emergencies at the 17th EAP Congress "Crisis: Change and Challenge". |