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Our vision and mission

Our vision and mission is core to all of our operations as a regulator and membership body. The advancement of psychoanalytic practice motivates all of our strategy and actions.

Our vision We have a vision of a society that recognises and values human relationships and the use of psychoanalytic theories of mind to support emotional wellbeing, good mental health, and effective social policy to create a better society.
Our mission Our mission is to advance the health of the public though the promotion of the highest clinical standards of training and clinical practice of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychodynamic counselling; and advance the education of psychoanalytic theories of mind.
Working for a better future for everyone We are working towards a future where psychoanalysis is acknowledged as a theory of mind that can support policy development to tackle society’s ills; and psychoanalytically informed work is routinely made available as a treatment to anyone in emotional distress, whatever their gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability or income.
Our charitable objectives to advance the health of the public through the maintenance and regulation of professional standards and clinical practice in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy and counselling to advance education in and of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy and counselling and its theoretical underpinnings

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Public affairs and policy

Find out more about our campaigns and initiatives to promote the benefits of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
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