GAP is the longest established psychotherapy practice in Central London where psychoanalytic psychotherapists, psychologists and psychiatrists collaborate to provide both individual and group psychotherapy. We provide an initial assessment and subsequent therapy - attuned to individual need - in an informal and comfortable setting. We also offer a range of specialist services that include treatment for couples and families.
The Group Analytic Practice was founded in 1959 by Dr S H Foulkes, the initiator of Group Analysis, with colleagues, including our senior members. Most members of the Practice are members or founder members of the Institute of Group Analysis. Some are psychoanalysts trained with the Institute of Psychoanalysis; others are analysts trained with the Society of Analytical Psychologists. Several members of the Practice hold or have held major posts as Consultants within the National Health Service. Most have made important contributions to the literature on various aspects of psychotherapy. All members are registered with UKCP and/or BCP.
Our range of services is centred on but not confined to the provision of groups that include once- and twice-weekly groups for a mixed (male and female) population; once-weekly groups for women and for couples; and mixed groups in weekend blocks. In addition we offer Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis, psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, brief focal therapy, marital and family therapy and counselling. Whilst counselling is effective in addressing immediate problems, and cognitive therapy is effective in alleviating distressing symptoms, the approach of GAP is holistic. It looks at relationships within the treatment situation and in the patients' outside lives, often relating them back to the past. We regard it as the treatment of choice for many patients who are motivated to undergo an exploration of the circumstances underlying their suffering.
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