British Association of Psychotherapists

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future:

The collection comprises mainly Council, committee and sub-committee minutes and papers, including the Executive Committee, Freudian Training Committee, Freudian Training Committee Curriculum Sub-Committee, Freudian Postgraduate Committee, Public Conferences Committee, Clinical Committee, Ethical Committee, Child Training Committee, Finance Committee, and Annual General Meetings minutes. In addition contains Freudian training and education materials; files relating to professional registration, training, fellowships, clinical services, malpractice insurance, access to health records, honorary members; Association bulletin; accounts and financial papers; material relating to conferences; training packs; material relating to BAP history; BAP newsletter and leaflets.

A detailed box list is available. Please contact the Archives and Manuscripts department for further information.

1950s-1990s

Uncatalogued: 6 transfer boxes, 7 audio cassettes and 5 digital files

The papers were deposited by the British Association of Psychotherapists, 06/07/1998.

The British Association of Psychotherapists was founded 1951. It is a registered charity and one of the longest established and largest independent providers of Jungian analytic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adults and children in the United Kingdom. BAP members work in the NHS, the corporate and voluntary sectors and as private practitioners. The Association has been involved in training Psychoanalytic and Jungian psychotherapists for 60 years.

The organisation's main activities are to provide a list of practitioners who are members of the BAP, run a variety of courses including introductory courses for interested individuals, Continuing Professional Development courses for qualified professionals, an MSc programme with Birkbeck College, University of London, and professional training courses. The Association also runs regular events and careers open days.

The British Psychoanalytic Association (BPA) is an association within the BAP.

The BAP acquired the British Journal of Psychotherapy in 2006, with Blackwell (now Wiley-Blackwell).

Archived website

This organisation's website has been archived as part of the work of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) and can be consulted here.

This collection is currently uncatalogued and cannot be ordered online. Requests to view uncatalogued material are considered on a case by case basis. Please contact collections@wellcomecollection.org for more details.