Psychotherapy - as an art and as a profession - has seldom been more conscious of its own multiplicity and diversity of approaches than at present. The thrust towards registration and the establishment of standards, far from homogenizing psychotherapeutic practice, means that bodies like the UKCP and the BCP are having to contain diversity and difference within a single frame. The recent UKCP conference at Warwick University last September showed the degree of tolerance and exchange that is achievable.