New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists
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| Formation | 1947 |
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| Type | Professional association |
Region served | New Zealand |
| Field | Psychotherapy |
President | Seán Manning[1] |
| Website | www |
The New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists Te Rōpū Whakaora Hinengaro (NZAP) is a professional associations for psychotherapists in New Zealand.
History[edit]
The college was established in 1947 at a meeting in Christchurch by Maurice Bevan-Brown, as a way to promote psychoanalysis as a way to address New Zealand's high rate of admissions to mental hospitals.[2] In the following year, the association helped establish the first university course in psychological medicine and psychotherapy in New Zealand, held at Canterbury University College.[3]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Contact". New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
- ^ Cook, Peter S (1996). "The early history of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists and the related movement for primary prevention in mental health: Some recollections". Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 30 (3): 405–409. doi:10.3109/00048679609065006. ISSN 0004-8674.
- ^ "Psychological Medicine". The Press. Vol. LXXXIV, no. 25584. 27 August 1948. p. 3 – via Papers Past.
Further reading[edit]
- Manchester, Ruth; Manchester, Brian (1996). Notes towards a history: a chronology of the first fifty years, 1947-1997. New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists. OCLC 154671679.
- Carson, Rhona; Farrell, Mary; Manning, Sean (2008). A history of a decade, 1997-2006: completing a chronology of the first sixty years, 1947-2006. New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists. OCLC 228814785.
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