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Farrell Consulting
Consultation – Training – Supervision – Psychotherapy
PO Box 60297 Rooms: 6/3a Kakariki Avenue
Titirangi Mount Eden
AUCKLAND 1007 AUCKLAND 4
NEW ZEALAND Tel (09) 623 1917
Fax (09) 638 9814
Email: farrell@ihug.co.nz
December 2002
To: Graduates from the 1999-2000 intake of The Foundations of Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy at AFCP
Dear (Forename),
I hope you are well. I’m writing now because I’m studying for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy at Auckland University of Technology, supervised by Steve Appel, exploring
how experience in learning groups impacts on the development of individual adult
psychotherapists. I want to let you know that I hope to include in my research data from
the work we did together at AFCP on Semester 4 of the Foundations of Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy course between July and November 2000, and to ask for your consent to
continue to be involved in the project. This project received approval from the Ethics
Committee at AUT at its meeting on 11 November 2002.
You will probably remember that during Semester 4 of your course (in the Spring of
2000), you gave Judi Blumenfeld Hoadley and myself your consent for us to audio-tape
our teaching sessions with you on the Foundations course, and to use the data for the
purposes of scholarship and research. (I’m attaching a copy of that consent form, for your
information). I’m writing now to let you know where the work is going and in order to reconfirm
your consent as promised, but also because I would like to interview you again
as a continuation of the same study. Can I ask that you read the following information
carefully? If you have any questions about this next stage of the project, the previous
stage, or your invited participation in the next stage, do let me know and I will try to
answer these. If you agree to take part in the next stage, can I ask that you sign the
enclosed AUT Consent Form and return it to me at the PO Box above in the
enclosed envelope.
Bill Farrell MSc CPsychol AFBPsS MNZPsS MNZAP
Registered Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Organisational Consultant