External Membership

INTERESTED IN BECOMING A MEMBER OF THE BOWLBY CENTRE?

You may be eligible to apply for full clinical membership with us if you meet the following criteria:

· If you are already a psychoanalytic psychotherapist registered with the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis (CPJA) of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) or other psychoanalytic registering body

· If you are a registered psychodynamic psychotherapist with several years of experience and a knowledge of attachment theory, psychoanalytic theory, infant observation and theories on trauma and intersectionality

If you think that you might meet the criteria, and would like to discuss the possibility of membership with us, please contact our admin manager admin@thebowlbycentre.org.uk who will put you in touch with our membership chair. There are other routes in to membership if some further training is required, which will not necessarily involve doing a full psychoanalytic training.

Procedure for External Membership

The Bowlby Centre’s procedure for dealing with applications from psychotherapists who wish to become full practising members of the centre but who have not done The Bowlby Centre training is as follows:

1. Where the application for membership is from a psychoanalytic psychotherapist the applicant will be asked to provide:

· Evidence of registration

· A full CV including recent CPD

· The name and email of a professional referee

· A letter from their current registering organisation confirming that they are not the subject of an investigation or complaint.

2. Where the application for membership is from a psychodynamic psychotherapist the applicant will be asked to provide:

· Evidence of registration: The training must be psychodynamic in orientation and be the equivalent of a 4 years part time MA

· Evidence of personal therapy with a registered psychotherapist for a minimum of 6 years

· Evidence of having undertaken an infant observation study

· The name and email of a professional referee

· A full CV including recent CPD

· A letter from their current registering organisation confirming that they are not the subject of an investigation or a complaint.

Each applicant providing the required evidence will be interviewed by a member of the Membership Committee.

The application process will normally take about 3 weeks and there is a fee of £60 which will be charged by the centre after interview.

If the application is successful, the new member may be encouraged to present a paper at a future clinical forum providing an opportunity for the new member to introduce themselves and to be welcomed into the organisation.