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Open Letter to the CHRE/PSA’s consultation on Accreditation Standards

Bruce Scott — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:29:37 +0000

To: Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE), 157-197 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1 9SP From: Dr Bruce Scott, c/o Studio E, 39 The Avenue, London, MW6 7NR or brucescott@gmx.co.uk (…)

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Occupy the madness-29/01/2012- The Docta Ignorantia

Bruce Scott — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:30:08 +0000

[Text given as part of ‘Occupy the Madness’ at Tent City University, Occupy London, St Paul’s, London on 29th January 2012] Let me first start by saying I have (…)

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‘Meno’, Montaigne and the ‘Docta Ignorantia’: Some thoughts and comments on the weak symbolic in the 21st century

Bruce Scott — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:11:19 +0000

Plato’s Dialogue, ‘Meno’, (written in the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. [i]) is a wonderful example of an anti-technological and anti-systemizing stance towards psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. In the ‘Meno’, (…)

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Getting off on old jouissance: Turning away from negative capability.

Bruce Scott — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:21:20 +0000

Thoughts and reflections on Eric Laurent’s clinical examples from his paper: The Symbolic order in the 21st Century: Consequences for the treatment.[1] Cartel Presentation, 12/11/11 My first thoughts (…)

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So who is in bed with whom (part 1)? & further on the Government’s CON-sultation mechanisms

Bruce Scott — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:59:43 +0000

Dear Julia (JE: Bruce’s comment was sent to me in an email), From my recollection the Command paper, setting out the voluntary registers scenario, came out in Feb 2011. (…)

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It seems as though the HPC has died and been reincarnated into the PSA (formerly CHRE), a bit like when Doctor Who dies and comes back in a different form.

Bruce Scott — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:44:38 +0000

(Julia Evans writes: The following is an email response to Laing was rattling the cage of an establishment with vested interests who did not like to be questioned or held (…)

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Forced Compliance in NHS: The dumbing down of thoughtfulness

Bruce Scott — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:06:59 +0000

From job description of an NHS Trainee Child Psychotherapist post. “To take an evidence-based approach and show preparedness to collaborate with outcome measurement and generally comply with clinical and social (…)

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Same old, same old at the HPC: HPC council meeting Thursday 31st March 2011

Bruce Scott — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:28:19 +0000

Here are some themes that came up in discussion during the meeting. The Health Professions Council (HPC) are still keeping in mind ‘protection of public’ -or still repeating this mantra that (…)

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