News, reports and resources
Read our latest newsletter Autumn/Winter 2019 (PDF).
Past newsletters
- Winter2018/Spring 2019 (PDF)
- Summer/Autumn 2018 (PDF)
- Winter/Spring 2018 (PDF)
- Summer 2017 (PDF)
- Winter 2016/2017 (PDF)
- Spring/Summer 2016 (PDF)
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Autumn/Winter 2015/2016 (PDF).
- Psychotherapy survey: 2018 training report on 2016 survey data (PDF)
- Faculty report: Evidence in support of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (PDF)
- Occasional paper: Learning from the Cradle to the Grave: the psychotherapeutic development of doctors from beginning to end of a career in medicine and psychiatry (PDF)
- Occasional paper: Using formulation in general psychiatric care: good practice (PDF)
- Faculty report: Faculty of Medical Psychotherapy Position on Electronic Patient Records (PDF)
- Faculty postition paper: Outcome Measures for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Services (PDF)
A practical introduction to Neuropsychoanalysis: Clinical Implications wokshop with Marc Solms
Date: 4 - 6 October 2019
Venue: London
London Neuropsychoanalysis Group in collaboration with the Tavistock Clinic, the Psychotherapy Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Bloomsbury Neuroscience Group.
The workshop will consider the impact on psychoanalytic theory of advances in affective neuroscience and its clinical implications e.g. the affective basis of consciousness itself (the conscious id); the meaning of symptoms; the actual task of psychoanalytic treatment along with clinical presentations to exemplify the implications for clinical technique of changing conceptions of the id, the unconscious and repression.
Note: Unfortunately College staff are unable to help with information about this event.
Medical Psychotherapy & Perinatal Faculties Joint Conference
Date: 11 October 2019
Venue: Royal College of Psychiatrists, 21 Prescot Street, London E1 8BB
Psychodynamic Psychiatry: A Psychoanalytic Approach to understanding Mental Disturbance and Its Impact on Staff
Date: 1 November 2019
Venue: Royal College of Psychiatrists, 21 Prescot Street, London E1 8BB
Our faculty and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) have worked together to provide a pathway for medical psychotherapists wishing to become members of the UKCP.
If you hold GMC specialist registration in medical psychotherapy you may be eligible to apply to become a member of the UKCP through the Accrediting Organisation for Medical Psychotherapy.
Read our briefing note about the Talking Therapies Taskforce (pdf), which is made up of six leading counselling and psychotherapy bodies.