PROCEDURES FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF CENTRES ALLIED TO THE IPA FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOANALYSIS 

Definition 

1. An Allied Centre falls within ‘Associated Organisations’ of the IPA as defined in Rule 4, Section C.  This Rule reads as follows: ‘The Board may, from time to time, establish relationships with other groups and create guest study groups.  The terms of any such relationship shall (a) make clear that the other group, body, or association is not a Constituent Organisation of the IPA and, therefore, is not authorised to train or qualify psychoanalysts or Members of the IPA or exercise any other IPA authority of a Constituent Organisation and (b) be subject to periodic review and revision by the IPA.’   
   
   
2. The Board approved the creation of Allied Centres at its meeting in July 2003.  The intention is to form mutually beneficial relationships with groups as described below and within the terms in the Rules. 
   
   Function
3. The Function of the AC is to develop awareness of psychoanalysis through outreach and community activities and to develop relationships with the IPA, its members, and its broad field of study.  
   
   Applications
4. All applications for the establishment of Allied Centres shall be referred to the IPA office which will acknowledge their receipt and forward them to the Co-Chair for Allied Centres, copied to the ING Chair and Co-Chair for the relevant region (where applicable). 
   
   General Criteria
5. The general criteria for Allied Centre status are as follows.  Groups applying for Allied Centre status need not have the long-term objective of becoming a Constituent Organisation of the IPA.   
   They should: 
     
   a. Consist of any groups which wish to explore and/or develop the benefits of the theory and/or practice of psychoanalysis in their work.
   
   b. Contain, as a member of the AC, or be in a relationship with at least one IPA member or candidate living in the country although not necessarily. 
   
   c. Aspire to develop clinical and theoretical awareness of psychoanalysis, enabling its members, who may have had no personal experience of psychoanalysis previously, to benefit from this exposure.  Where possible, to develop interest and training in psychoanalytic-psychotherapy for, or to engage in individual or collective local supervision by IPA Members. 
   
   d. Have a governing board which should comprise: local members, who have, if possible, personal interest and/or experience of psychoanalysis; one or more IPA members who are currently associated with the group and can serve as ex-officio members of the AC governing board.
   
   e. Be prepared to fund the cost of the IPA Allied Centres Cooperation Committee (ACCC) beyond the initial site visit and throughout the period of the relationship with the IPA. 
   
   f. Allied Centres may be located in any country including those where there are IPA Constituent Organisations or pre-existing Study Groups or those that are covered by an existing Regional Institute, unless the Board determines that there is a valid reason why an Allied Centre should not be established.  The AC’s operations are restricted to that country where it is established.  
   
   Initial Consideration of Applications 
6. The Co-Chair for Allied Centres will consider each application.  They may seek further details from the applicant group but will not visit the applicant group at this stage.  The Co-Chair for Allied Centres will then make recommendations to the Executive Committee copied to the ING Committee.  Having received the recommendations of the Co-Chair for Allied Centres, the Executive Committee will consult the ING Committee and then may: 
     
   a)    recommend to the next meeting of the Board the establishment of an Allied Centre, where the applicant group clearly meets the general criteria above; or 
   b)    establish a Site Visit Committee to review the application; or 
   c)    refer the application back to the Co-Chair for Allied Centres for further information; or 
   d)    reject the application on the basis that the group clearly does not meet the criteria approved by the Board. 
   
   Site Visit Committee 
7. Once approved by the Executive Committee, the Site Visit Committee will be given a Mandate by the Co-Chair for Allied Centres drafted in consultation with the ING Chair and relevant Regional Co-Chair (where applicable) which shall include, but not be limited to, making a recommendation as to the applicant group’s suitability to become an Allied Centre based on consideration of the general criteria above.   
    
   This initial Site Visit will be funded by the IPA. 
   
   Consideration by the Executive Committee
8. The Site Visit Committee will report to the Co-Chair for Allied Centres.  The Co-Chair for Allied Centres will forward the report of the Site Visit Committee to the Executive Committee together with any comments the Co-Chair for Allied Centres wishes to add copied to the ING Chair and Regional Co-Chair (where applicable).  The Executive Committee will consider this information.  The Executive Committee may then in consultation with the ING Chair: 
     
   a)    recommend to the next meeting of the Board the establishment of an Allied Centre, 
   b)    refer the application back to the Co-Chair for Allied Centres and/or the Site Visit Committee for further information; or 
   c)    reject the application, on the basis that the group clearly does not meet the criteria approved by the Board. 
   
   Protocol and Approval by the Board
9. Following the Executive Committee’s recommendation to establish an Allied Centre, and prior to approval by the Board, a draft Protocol will be prepared for and in consultation with each proposed Allied Centre by the Co-Chair for Allied Centres modelled on the standard Protocol in the appendix to this document but modified to suit the individual circumstances of each proposed Allied Centre.   
   
   
10. The Board will consider recommendations made by the Executive Committee.  It may: 
    a) approve the establishment of an Allied Centre, its related Protocol and the Mandate for the Allied Centres Cooperation Committee; or 
    b) refer the application back to the Co-Chair for Allied Centres for revisions to the documentation, for further information or review.  The Board may delegate authority to the Executive Committee to approve the establishment of an Allied Centre following revisions to the documentation; or 
    c) reject the proposal. 
    
    
11. Once approved by the Board, each Allied Centre will be issued with an IPA certificate recognising its Allied Centre status. 
    
    Cooperation
12. Each Allied Centre will be the responsibility of the Co-Chair for Allied Centres, which will oversee the work of the Allied Centres Cooperation Committee (ACCC) for each such Centre.  Each ACCC will be required to conduct periodic reviews and report to the Co-Chair for Allied Centres, copied to the ING Chair and relevant regional Co-Chair where applicable, on each such relationship not less than once per year.  The Co-Chair for Allied Centres  will make a summary report to the Board on each such Centre not less than once a year. 
     
    Where an Allied Centre has not had a visit from a Site Visit Committee the IPA will fund the first visit of the Cooperation Committee. (i.e. the IPA will pay for one Committee visit for each Allied Centre).  
    
    
13. The Board, or the Executive Committee, in circumstances where it judges the matter cannot wait till the next Board meeting, may, by a simple majority of those present at a meeting, terminate the relationship with any Centre by giving the Centre three months' notice in writing to that effect and without giving reasons.   
    
    Change log 
    First approved by the Board April 2004
    Revisions approved by the Board November 2004
    Changes to Protocol Document in relation to services provided by the IPA, May 2006
    Changes to cover the adoption of the IPA’s new Rules made in June 2007
    Changes to reflect change of AC Committee to Co-Chair for AC approved by Board Jan 2015 
    Removal of the term "Broomhills" approved by Board January 2017
    Changes to make Allied Centre status more collaborative and appealing to applicant groups 2024 
      
    *This change record is for background information only and does not form part of the Procedural Code. If there is any conflict between a statement in the Procedural Code and a statement in this change record, the change record will be disregarded. 
      

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    Appendix 
    DRAFT STANDARD PROTOCOL DOCUMENT 
    INTRODUCTION 
    1. This Protocol is a legally binding agreement between the International Psychoanalytical Association (the IPA), a UK registered charity with offices at Unit B, Book House, 261a City Road, London EC1V 1AH, UK,  [email protected] and [Name, Address and email of Group] (the Centre).  The Centre wishes to form a professionally and educationally beneficial relationship with the IPA as an ’Allied Centre’, in accordance with IPA Procedures (attached as Appendix 1), which may be modified by the IPA at its discretion by giving 30-day notice to the Centre.  This Protocol defines the nature, terms and conditions of the relationship with the IPA. 
    
    LEGAL FRAMEWORK 
    2. This Protocol is established under Rule 4, Section C of the IPA’s Rules.  The Rule reads as follows: ‘The Board may, from time to time, establish relationships with other groups and create guest study groups.  The terms of any such relationship shall (a) make clear that the other group, body, or association is not a Constituent Organisation of the IPA and, therefore, is not authorised to train or qualify psychoanalysts or Members of the IPA, or exercise any other IPA authority of a Constituent Organisation and (b) be subject to periodic review and revision by the IPA.’   
    
    3. The IPA’s Rules, as well as its Procedures (attached as Appendix 1) shall prevail in case of any inconsistency with this Protocol. 
    
    TERMS AND CONDITIONS 
    4.  In agreeing to the terms of this Protocol, the Centre: 
    a)    has set itself the objectives (which must be attached as Appendix 2) which have been agreed with the IPA. 
    b) may call itself ‘An Allied Centre the IPA’.  However, the Group must at all times make it clear, in such format as the IPA shall specify, that it is not a Constituent Organisation of the IPA.  Therefore, the Centre is not authorised to train or qualify psychoanalysts or Members of the IPA, represent, speak for or bind the IPA in any fashion, or exercise any other IPA authority. 
    d)    shall be subject to review by an Allied Centres Cooperation Committee (ACCC) appointed by the IPA to visit the Centre not less than once a year whose costs, after the initial visit, shall be entirely funded by the Centre. The Centre shall maintain such records as the IPA shall require, make them available promptly to the IPA or the ACCC on request, and otherwise cooperate fully with the IPA, its officers, and its staff, and/or the ACCC in its monitoring of the relationship described in this agreement.  This ACCC is a sub-committee of the IPA’s ING Committee, overseen by the Co-Chair for Allied Centres to which it will prepare a report after every visit to the Centre.  The Co-Chair for Allied Centres will in turn report to the IPA Board.  The ACCC shall be governed by an IPA approved Mandate broadly aimed at assisting the Centre to develop knowledge of psychoanalysis, familiarity with the IPA, and to employ the theory and/or practice of psychoanalysis in its members’ work, with a possible long-term view to the Centre becoming a Constituent Organisation of the IPA, following from the creation of an IPA Study Group or a Provisional Society. 
    e)    shall provide and notify the IPA promptly of any changes in its list of its members and agree that these members may be listed on the IPA’s database in London.  This will be subject to the IPA’s Data Protection policy, which will be made available to the Centre. 
    f)    has agreed to make no financial or legal claims against the IPA, and acknowledges that, except as specified in paragraph 4h) below, the IPA makes no financial or service-delivery promises or commitments to the Centre. 
    g)    reserves the right to end this relationship by giving the IPA three months' notice in writing to that effect without giving reasons. 
    h)    shall be eligible for certain services listed on the attached schedule provided the fees for such services are paid by the dates determined by the IPA. 
     
    5.  In agreeing to the terms of this Protocol, the IPA shall: 
    
    a)    appoint an Allied Centres Cooperation Committee (ACCC) for the Centre, which will visit the Centre not less than once a year provided its expenses are funded by the Centre to the IPA’s satisfaction.  The IPA shall determine the Mandate for this ACCC, which the IPA may modify from time to time, and will provide a copy to the Centre. 
    b)    provide members of the Centre with the services listed in the attached schedule for the fee outlined in the schedule. 
    c)    list the Centre as an Allied Centre in the IPA’s  online Roster.
    d)   provide a roster of speakers who would be willing to contribute to Allied Centers including teaching according to the Allied Centre’s requirements. 
    e) link the Allied Centre with an existing, supportive IPA Organisation.  
    f) endeavour to create opportunities at IPA Congresses and Regional meetings for Allied Centres to meet with ING and IPA leadership to hear their views, to learn from their input, and to tailor what the IPA offers to meet their specific needs.  
    g) endeavour to create opportunities for Allied Centres to inform IPA members about their countries, cultures, history, and the development of their own work-history, its challenges, aspirations, etc., and how this shapes mental health needs to which psychoanalysis might learn from or contribute.  
    h) utilize online communication tools, including webinars, in creating opportunities for interchange and participation.   
    j) reserves the right to terminate this relationship with the Centre by giving the Centre three months’ notice in writing to that effect without giving reasons.  However, if in the IPA’s judgement, the Centre has violated any term or condition of this Protocol, the IPA may terminate the relationship in writing without prior notice. 
     
    6.  This agreement shall be construed and governed by the laws of England.   Modifications shall only be effective if agreed by both parties in writing.    
    
    
    Signed: 
      
      
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    For the IPA                                                                  For the [Group] 
      
    
    Date: 
      
      
      
      
    DRAFT SCHEDULE OF SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED BY THE IPA TO THE CENTRE 
      
    1.  E-Newsletters in one of four languages to each Centre member monthly. 
      
    2. Access to the IPA electronic Roster. 
      
    3.  Access to IPA biennial Congresses at Membership registration fee levels. 
      
    4.  Access to the IPA Members-only, password protected section of the website, except for categories such as election ballots that the IPA limits to its actual Members and/or Constituent Organisations. 
     
    5.  Access to IPA publications at members-only discounted rates. 
     
     
    Items 1 to 5, US$30 per member per year. 
    The above fee is subject to periodic review and may be changed without notice.