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Referral Services

NEAPP runs a low cost scheme for intensive psychotherapy. Fees are on a sliding scale in relation to ability to pay and are individually negotiated.

For further information contact: Mrs Jan McGregor Hepburn, Post Office Cottage, Station Bank, Mickley, Stocksfield, Northumberland NE43 7BX Tel: (01661) 842727

Clinical Training

NEAPP runs an established training in individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy with adults. The aim of the course is to provide a core training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy to the standard required for independent specialist status, for senior and autonomous practice in the NHS, and to a standard approved by the BPC. Course graduates are expected to use their professional training and qualification as the basis for both independent practice and to develop a career in the NHS to consultant or equivalent level of responsibility. Graduates are registered as psychoanalytic psychotherapists with the BPC. The British Psychological Society and the Royal College of Psychiatrists also accredit the course.

External Examiner: Julia Fabricius, President of the British Psychoanalytical Society (2004 - 2006).

For further details and a prospectus contact: Alison Cookson, Course Director, Claremont House, Off Framlington Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4AA. Tel: (0191) 282 4547.

Continuing Professional Development

All NEAPP’s clinical members have professional qualifications and have trained to a high standard either within NEAPP itself or in another recognised training organisation. They are all registered psychoanalytic psychotherapists and work to the BPC Code of Ethics.

A Clinical Members meeting is held regularly (once per term). Day Workshops are also planned for the future, which will be set around a particular theme.

An In-house Newsletter is produced three times a year, consisting of updates, articles of general interest, book reviews and conference reviews.

Papers by NEAPP clinical members have been presented at In-house conferences, which are open to non-members and, on each occasion, have regularly attracted 70-80 delegates.

• 2003 Trauma. Speakers: Mary Heller, Nicola Chadd, Ashleigh Phoenix, Veronica Gore

• 2004 Self-destructiveness.  Speakers: Alison Cookson, Vic Sedlak, Christina Oliver, Susie Godsil

• 2006 Is Everything Really Oedipal?  Speakers: Jan McGregor-Hepburn, Alison Knights, Simon Archer.

The Fourth In-house Conference will take place on 7th June, 2008, and is entitled: It’s the thought that counts: Making space for psychoanalytic thinking in today’s NHS 

Speakers: Peter Brumby, Ravi Lingam.