Who writes this
All clinical content on this site is written by Dr Philippe Jacquet: a UKCP registered psychotherapist, Jungian analyst, and HCPC registered art psychotherapist, with twenty-five years of clinical practice.
He is listed on the public register of the Association of Jungian Analysts as analyst, supervising analyst and training analyst, and is a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. His Doctorate of Professional Practice at the University of Essex examined male eating disorders from the perspective of analytical psychology; the thesis is publicly available.
Every one of those registrations can be checked in about a minute, and we would rather you did.
Where a page is written by or with an Associate of the practice, it says so.
What this content is, and is not
It is clinical writing intended to help you understand something and decide whether to seek help.
It is not a diagnosis, and it is not treatment. Nothing here replaces an assessment with a qualified practitioner, and nothing here should be used to decide against medical advice you have already been given.
Where a subject carries physical risk, that is stated plainly on the page rather than left implied. Alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal, the acute phase of an eating disorder, and GHB or GBL use are all examples where medical care comes before psychotherapy, and the relevant pages say so.
How sources are chosen
Where a page asserts a fact rather than a clinical opinion, the source is named on the page.
We prefer, in this order: peer-reviewed research and systematic reviews; national guidance such as NICE and the NHS; official statistics from bodies such as the World Health Organization, the Office for National Statistics or the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; and the published position of professional bodies and specialist charities such as Beat.
We avoid citing commercial treatment providers for prevalence or efficacy claims, since they have an interest in the answer.
Clinical observation from this practice is presented as exactly that. When you read that something is true “in this practice” or “in my experience”, it means it has not been established by research and should be weighed accordingly.
Claims we try not to make
Superlatives are qualified. Where the site describes the doctorate as, to our knowledge, the only one of its kind in Europe, that qualification is deliberate: an absence cannot be proved by searching.
Confidentiality is described accurately. It is strict, and it has limits: a serious risk to life, a court order, and clinical supervision. Those limits are explained at the outset of any work rather than buried.
Efficacy is described conditionally. Treatments that work well for many people do not work for everyone, and suitability is assessed individually rather than assumed.
Operational promises are conditional. Availability changes, so the site says “usually” where that is the truth.
Reviewing and dating
Pages carry the date they were published. Where a page has been substantively reviewed since, it carries the review date as well.
We do not update dates without updating content. A page that says it was reviewed in a given month was actually read and checked in that month. Automatic freshness signals are worth less than accurate ones, and on health content they are misleading.
Clinical pages are reviewed when guidance changes, when the evidence moves, or at least every two years.
Images
Images on eating disorder pages follow Beat’s media guidelines. We do not use images of emaciation, empty plates, scales, measuring equipment, or slogans about food and control, because such images can be harmful to the people the pages are written for.
Corrections
If something on this site is inaccurate, out of date, or misleading, please tell us. Corrections to factual errors are made promptly, and where a correction is material the page records that it was changed.
Advertising and independence
This practice does not accept payment to recommend other providers, and no page on this site is sponsored. Where a clinic, charity or organisation is mentioned, it is because it is relevant, not because of any arrangement.
We do not name individual treatment centres in clinical writing, and we do not publish client testimonials, because in psychotherapy the consent required to do so is difficult to obtain cleanly and the pressure it places on a patient is not fair.