Lacap
clinicians work within Lacap guidelines, but they
are free to negotiate the working contract with
each patient. This means that they can give an
appropriate and commensurate frequency of
sessions, and timing of sessions.
Long-term and open-ended treatments are offered.
In principle, Lacap has no problem with supporting
therapy for as long as each treatment takes to
conclude. The duration will not be limited by a
set number of sessions or an artificial time
boundary. Thus the needs of the patient will take
priority over the supply of therapeutic time.
Lacap clinicians are psychoanalytically
orientated, and therefore the treatments are
derived from the psychoanalytic model, but varied
according to the patient's ability to engage with
and derive benefit from that model.
