Our Vision, Mission, & Values
Our Vision
The bpf’s vision is a society where psychoanalytic thinking has improved the functioning of the mental health and wellbeing of society.
Our Mission
Bpf is a charity and its mission is to provide the public with access to psychotherapists who have undertaken rigorous, thorough, and academically excellent trainings and who are supported by a membership body that provides career-long, continuing professional development.
The charity aims to educate the public about psychoanalytic theory and practice and have influence over social policy to increase access to intensive, psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy.
It is working to increase accessibility to its trainings and membership, so that a wider range of the general public is represented in its membership. It is also striving to make its clinical services more widely available to the general public, geographically and economically.
Our Values
Our values are an expression of our identity – and our identity is defined by our core values:
The importance of the unconscious mind
We understand that peoples’ distress is often a result of the unconscious mental efforts we make to cope with painful feelings, experience and conflicts. We understand that peoples’ behaviour is sometimes driven by unconscious processes and that an opportunity to be able to understand our inner world be can transformational.
Reflectivity
Psychoanalysis is embedded in the idea that thinking and reflection can offer space for creativity and work. We aim to hold a space for reflection especially in the face stress, fear or disagreement.
Equity
People from different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, faiths, sexualities, socio-economic structures, neuro-diversities are welcomed, and difference is acknowledged celebrated.
Accessibility
Barriers to joining our trainings and membership will be acknowledged and work will be done to minimise barriers as they arise.
Integrity
Our trainings are informed by rigorous academic application and evidenced-based clinical experience. We act with honesty, will self-reflect, acknowledge when we have got things wrong and encourage each other to speak up when things need saying.
Inclusivity
We aim to include all our stakeholders in our future plans, including potential service users, members, trainees, our members of staff, our volunteers, our academic a clinical partners and wider social institutions.
Our commitment to improving diversity in the profession
In July 2024, the bpf was awarded ‘Investors in Diversity – silver mark’ from the National Centre for Diversity (NCD).
This award is a national diversity accreditation that recognizes excellence in this area. It acknowledges the work the bpf has done to embed the FREDIE principles (Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement) into all areas of the charity including our strategy and business plan, operational and line management systems, selection and recruitment practices, retention, reward and progression processes, performance management systems, procurement procedures and communications.
