European Association for Psychotherapy

The European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) is a Vienna-based umbrella organisation for 128 psychotherapist organizations (including 28 national associations and 17 European associations) from 41 countries with a membership of more than 120,000 psychotherapists. Individual members may also join the organisation directly rather than through one of its member organisations.

The EAP has auspiced much of the European effort from the mid-1990s toward the professionalisation of psychotherapy and the formation of pan-European training standards, ethics and guidelines.

Its President is currently Rodolfo de Bernart (Italy), and it has two Vice-Presidents, Adrian Rhodes (Britain) and Mony Elkaim (Belgium). The General Secretary of the EAP is Alfred Pritz (Austria), the founding rector of Sigmund Freud University Vienna. The EAP office is located alongside the University campus.

The association is based on the Strasbourg Declaration on Psychotherapy of 1990 whereby the EAP promotes the need for high standards of training on a scientific basis, and fights for free and independent exercise of psychotherapy in Europe. Important activities include:

Publication of the International Journal of Psychotherapy ISSN 1356-9082, a professional journal with 3 issues per annum.

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