Ethical framework
From the 1 April 2025, the Ethical framework (the Code of Ethics and the Ethical Guidelines) will be replaced by the Standards of Conduct, Practice and Ethics.
As a regulatory body for psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, it falls within the remit of our responsibility to ensure that all Registrants practise within a clear ethical framework which protects and acts in the interests of the public.
The ethical framework underpinning this, which aims to ensure that patients are offered a high standard of clinical practice, is set out in two documents: the Code of Ethics and Ethical Guidelines (downloadable below). All Member Institutions and BPC Registrants are required to comply with the Code of Ethics and Ethical Guidelines as part of their membership of and registration with us. These will be in place until 1 April 2025, when they will be replaced by the Standards of Conduct, Practice and Ethics.
