The Guild of Psychotherapists history

Founded in 1974, The Guild is a professional and training organisation for psychoanalytic psychotherapists. It is now a registered charity with over 250 members and trainees, who are bound by its Code of Ethics. The Guild is a member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), the principal national body for the registration and regulation of the psychotherapy profession. The Guild of Psychotherapists has a pluralistic tradition which values many different analytic theories.

The Guild was founded by a group of psychotherapists from Freudian, Jungian and Phenomenological backgrounds. They saw a need to establish a pluralistic body to foster independence of thought, a spirit of inquiry and freedom to develop creatively, for the benefit of the public seeking psychological help, and the profession.