However, we think that in order to be able to offer all these services, besides the practice of the kind of psychotherapy that is, let’s say, more orthodox, that is, individual psychotherapy for as long as needed, we must promote in our association the practice of the application of new techniques when applying psychoanalytical psychotherapy. We already have a Groups section, but we must think about considering other techniques like Family Psychotherapy, Mother-child Psychotherapy, short Psychotherapy, limited time focal psychotherapy... Specific techniques for specific nosological cases: treatment of first psychotic break outs, of disorders in the first and second phases of adolescence, of the elderly, of psychotics...
We think that in order to be good professionals of these different fields, it will be useful to have contact with Europe, see how our neighbor countries organize their psychoanalytical psychotherapy treatments: Italy, Germany, Great Britain, the Scandinavian Countries, Switzerland, Portugal ... We think that this will be an important task of the EFPP delegates, forming a good work group. We also believe that it will be important to have contact with Catalan institutions and those of the rest of Spain. Working basically with the organizations to which we already belong as an association or others to which our members belong, in order to provide our support to each other.
And we believe that all this will help us to look after our profession of Psychotherapists. A profession that is currently becoming very important. On one hand, the regulation of health Professions where the figure of the Psychotherapist is not contemplated, only those of Psychiatrist and Clinical Psychologist – although with restricted functions- and, none of these two health specialties guarantee training as psychotherapists. It will also be necessary to take into account the difficulties it represents, already in the present time, for the new psychology professionals to attain the degree of Clinical Psychologist. In order to work on these questions we think that we must work very closely with other institutions like the FEAP, the AEPP and the Professional Associations of Psychologists. On the other hand, the users or future users of health care are increasingly demanding a type of care not based on psychopharmacs but in the emotional understanding of their conflicts.
Now there is some talk, here in Catalonia, about the implementation of Psychotherapy programs in the public health system. We must see to it that Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy takes a dignified role, in order to be taken into account by the SCS and the different business organizations of the health sector with agreements with the SCS. That’s why we must be trained professionals, highly trained, to respond to today’s needs without losing this appropriate scientific education that we can guarantee as an association of professionals of psychoanalytical psychotherapy.
If we look back to the origins of our association, of which the Board that ends today has just finished organizing its 25th anniversary celebration, we came up from the PPIP Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy in the Public Institution, and what was almost exclusively a wish, a little more than 25 years ago, we want to work now to make it a reality.