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The methods operated by UK healthcare regulators when investigating claims of practitioner wrongdoing exhibit judicial irregularities and morally questionable methods. Highlighting how and where regulators fail to execute their fitness-to-practice mandates ethically provides an opportunity for fairer and safer systems of regulatory oversight to be contemplated. Taking into consideration concepts of bad faith, this paper is an analysis of how the regulatory establishment administers fitness-to-practice procedures, and seeks to illustrate how existing approaches harm the credibility and efficacy of healthcare regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the impact of regulation on clinical practice, with specific attention being given to issues of confidentiality and the increasing responsibilities now being imposed upon counsellors and psychotherapists. It argues that practitioners should be wary of placing policies and directives above the privacy of those seeking their help. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a result of an ongoing personal existential analysis, and in conjunction with research investigating practitioner characteristics of those working within the healthcare professions, I came across studies that presented findings, which, whilst being robust from a research methodological position, lacked decidedly valuable existential components. Being an observer of existential philosophy and its synthesis with psychotherapeutic practice I was immediately drawn to the current and widespread torrent of psychopathologising, to which western society in particular seems wholly reluctant to unshackle itself. Therefore, similar to Montaingne who claimed to write his 'vain' papers essentially for a select group of friends and family (Screech, 2003), this essay is intended, not for the timid or hesitant, but for a particular audience, one whom consistently and staunchly question universal conventions and expectations intimating there to be a path to definitive human happiness and well-being. This article is hardly suited for the eyes of a society, a mob, as impatient and cure-oriented as the present, preferring a dose of Prozac, than a dose of 'life'. Consequently, via a brutal dissection of particular aspects of human existence, this phenomenologically driven paper indirectly responds to those studies and articles that have produced findings suggesting 'helping practitioners' to be predisposed to psychopathological disorders, from which any emphasis upon the impact of an existential dimension has seemed void. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]