Name: The Industrialisation of Care: Counselling, psychotherapy and the impact of IAPT
Brand: PCCS Books
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The Industrialisation of Care: Counselling, psychotherapy and the impact of IAPT

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The UK government s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme has transformed the landscape of counselling and psychotherapy across England. Local IAPT services provide therapy to thousands of people experiencing depression and anxiety. But they also absorb millions of pounds in government funding and stand accused of relying on an economic model of treatment that has more in common with the principles of Henry Ford than of either Rogers or Freud. This book, with chapters written by experienced therapists, psychiatrists and academics, reveals the neoliberal roots from which the IAPT programme sprang. It critiques the tightly regulated, highly manualised and medicalised therapies IAPT offers, the constant surveillance under which its practitioners work and the dehumanising effects of this on clients and therapists alike. Together, contributors question whether and to what extent the IAPT factory system of care, driven by psychiatric diagnosis, fast through-put and quick-win outcomes, can really provide a solution to our growing mental health crisis.

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This excellent and incisive book exposes the many misleading myths on which our national IAPT programme is based. These writers are fearless in exposing the faults in the system and suggesting avenues for necessary and vital reform. --Dr James Davies, University of Roehampton

This book just has to be read by anyone concerned with mental health from the generality of psychotherapists and counsellors to politicians to cultural commentators. --Prof. Andrew Samuels, Former Chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy

About the Author

Catherine Jackson is Commissioning Editor with PCCS Books. She has worked in mental health journalism and publishing since the early 1990s, after a brief career as a cartoonist. She is editor of Therapy Today and was previously founding editor of Mental Health Today magazine and managing editor of Bereavement Care journal. She also worked in mental health advocacy for several years. Rosemary Rizq is a BPS chartered psychologist and a UKCP-accredited psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton and worked for many years in the NHS, most recently for a secondary care psychoanalytic psychotherapy service in north-east London. She now has a part-time private practice in West London. Rosemary was submissions editor for Psychodynamic Practice from 2004 2010, is a reviewer for a number of academic journals and has published widely on issues related to organisational dynamics and psychotherapeutic training and practice.

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