ABSTRACT
The Independent Practitioners Network (IPN) is founded in the values of creative pluralism, an unambitious modesty, and the celebration of growth and human potential development, rather than in those of infantilizing hoop-jumping, "power-over" hierarchy, and a preoccupation with "psychopathology". Colin Feltham's challenge to the discontented within the therapy field captures well the spirit and drive behind the founding of the IPN in the United Kingdom in 1994. The editors of the anthology Implausible Professions, both active participants in the Network, collected together a number of papers which directly address the future of "psycho-practice" in a "post-professional era". Trainers and theoreticians dissatisfied with the prescriptive positions of existing professional bodies might risk launching themselves as independent commentators, critics and creators of new therapeutic cultures and methods, thus challenging the assumption that the only alternatives to traditional models are flimsy, illegitimate hybrids.
