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Many institutes offer postgraduate courses leading to university-accredited degrees. The entrance requirements to these courses will vary, but they are generally intended for people already practising in mental health care, social work, or related fields. Qualifications currently available include:
The Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies offers a lively, non-sectarian learning environment and is easily accessible from London.
• MA in Psychoanalytic Studies: Caters for both clinical and non-clinical students who seek a psychoanalytic grounding for their work (full and part-time)
• MA/PhD in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies: A unique and widely acclaimed degree (full and part-time) - with the Society of Analytical Psychology
• MA in Refugee Care: Therapeutic and psychosocial perspectives
• (New) MA in Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious: (With the University’s Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies) Depth psychological perspectives on myth and its uses in literature (full and part-time)
• MA in Management and Psychoanalysis: (With the University’s School of Accounting, Finance and Management) Explores institutions, group dynamics, personnel, consultation (full and part-time)
• MA in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: (With the University’s Department of Philosophy) Illuminates existential, social and cultural issues
For further information, please contact: Senior Student Administrator, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, telephone: +44 (0) 1206 873745, fax: +44 (0) 1206 872746; email: cpsgrad [at] essex.ac.uk
www.essex.ac.uk/centres/psycho
MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling and MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling with Children and Adolescents
Places are still available on both of these BACP accredited, part-time courses. They offer a professional training in psychodynamic counselling, with an additional focus on understanding organisations.
Foundation degree in Psychodynamic Counselling and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
This new Foundation degree is a part-time evening course and begins in October 2010. It offers a dual track training in short term psychodynamic counselling and cognitive behaviour therapy and has been designed to achieve BACP accreditation.
Certificates of Higher Education
One year course: Psychodynamic Counselling and Organisational Dynamics
Two year course, with provision for direct entry to Year 2: Counselling and Counselling Skills
psychosocial-studies [at] bbk.ac.uk or phone 020 30738045
The London Centre for Psychotherapy in collaboration with the University of Essex
The Study for this one-year MA takes place one day a week at the Centre for Psychoanalytic studies at Essex University
It includes the study of psychoanalytic methodology, and the psychoanalysis of groups and organisations. It also involves carring out a psychoanalytic social observation in a group or organisational setting
The course has a foting in both theory and ideas, and in direct psychoanalytic observation-enabling clinicians to expand their understanding outside the consulting room to broader social situations, and feeding back strongly into clinical work with individuals
For more information please see the Centre for psychoanalytic studies' website or contact course co-ordinator Karl Figilo on 0120 6866 954 or email kfigilo [at] essex.ac.uk
For a more detailed written account of the course, please contact the LCP office
The training administrator can be telephoned at the following times:
Mon-Fri; 10am-4pm
Alternatively email training [at] lcp-psychotherapy.org.uk
London Centre for Psychotherapy
This Masters Degree is based on the LCP 2-year taught Foundation Programme in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, followed by a supervised dissertation overseen by the University of Essex.
The core studies covered over the two years include, in Year 1 (Theoretical Models): Background and Contexts, Key Concepts, Evolution of Theories, alongside a weekly Experiential Group; and in Year 2 (Clinical Applications): Approaches to Practice, States of Mind (Psychopathology), Current Practice and Debates (between psychoanalysis and competing practices).
The taught programme is delivered through lectures, seminars and workshops, in six terms over two years, followed by a third year devoted to completing a 12,000-word dissertation that will enable the student, with the support of a personal supervisor, to explore a chosen area of interest in greater depth.
For further information please contact the Training Administrator Sophina Khan, Mon-Fri 10am-4pm on 020 7482 2002 or by email at training [at] lcp-psychotherapy.org or by visiting the website here
Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy/Analytical Psychology (D. Psych Psych/D. An Psych)
Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, in collaboration with the Tavistock Clinic, the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP) and the London Centre for Psychotherapy (LCP). Members of the British Psychoanalytic Council are also eligible to apply.
The professional doctorate consists of two parts, a clinical training component followed by a research component. The clinical training component consists of the adult psychotherapy training at the Tavistock Clinic or the London Centre for Psychotherapists or the analytical psychology training at the Society of Analytical Psychology, London. The research component offers a structured method of continuing professional development aimed at enhancing research skills and contributing to the development of the field. The combination of these two parts leads to a Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy or Analytical Psychology.
All candidates will write a research dissertation. The research for the dissertation can be carried out in any are of psychoanalytic or analytical psychology, subject to the availability of suitably qualified supervisors.
The programme comprises a taught module in research methodology and a research dissertation. Teaching for the modules takes place at the University if Essex's Belsize Centre in London
Please contact Paulene Ford, cpsasst@essex.ac.uk for more information or to visit the website click here
University of Surrey
Psychodynamic Approaches to Supervision and Consultation
This pathway is only open to qualified Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists eligible to be registered with the BPC or UKCP, and Psychodynamic Counsellors accredited by the BACP. Candidates should have at least two year post qualification experience and be able to supervise and consult to others using a psychoanalytic approach over the duration of the training programme.
Programme length: Part time. Two years for the MSc, 18 months for the Postgraduate Diploma and 9 months for the Postgraduate Certificate.
Start date: September
For course enquiries please contact Julie Tidy, Course Administrator, on 01483 682887 or email j.tidy [at] surrey.ac.uk or for further information please visit www.surrey.ac.uk/cpd
University College London
A comprehensive introduction to current psychoanalytic thinking, rooted in the history and development of ideas and with attention to the application of psychoanalytic ideas to other fields.
www.ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences-faculty/degree-programmes/theoretical-psychoanalytic-studies/
M16
This course offers a wide-ranging study of psychoanalytic theory and its applications to culture and cultural artefacts, as well as direct experiential understanding of emotional development through observation of an infant or young child, with some opportunity to observe an organisation in the second year.
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with University of East London
Contact details for further information: 020 8938 2355
http://www.tavi-port.org/node/362
D2
The course is aimed at senior clinicians working with patients, staff and managers in the NHS, social services and the voluntary sector, including clinical and counselling psychologists, old age psychiatrists, nurses, GPs, occupational therapists, social workers, psychotherapists, care home managers and other professionals working in the field of nursing and residential care.
The course aims to strengthen participants in their core roles and to enhance the quality of clinical, supervisory and organisational work.
Organising Tutor
Andrew Balfour
Monica Rodriguez, Course Administrator
020 8938 2355 olcadmin[at]tavi-port.org
http://www.tavi-port.org/node/344
D10
Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of East London
Location: Mossley Hill Hospital, Liverpool
The course is delivered in monthly block two days (Friday/Saturday) from September to July, over 2 years, In the 2nd year students will also be expected to participate in a 5 day residential group relations conference, held in September.
The course aims to provide students with various opportunities, theoretical, practical and experiential, to learn about the systems/psychodynamics of work and organisations, and individuals and groups within them. Students will be able to study experiences of work in their own and different organisational settings as well as studying the dynamics that emerge within the course as a temporary institution. Sponsoring organisations may therefore gain considerable benefit from their employees attendance on the course.
Open to senior professionals with a minimum of 3 years post-qualification experience. Applications are invited from those working in clinical, professional, consultative or managerial capacities in any organisation in the public, voluntary and private sectors. Consultants who wish to understand more about systems/psychoanalytic approaches to organisational thinking may also find the course valuable.
Selection will be on the basis of application form and subsequent interview.
Further information: Paul Haviland, Directorate of Training and Postgraduate Education, Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA. Tel (020) 8938 2519, email PHaviland [at] tavi-port.nhs.uk
For informal discussion contact Sandy Bryson (Organising Tutor, Liverpool programme), tel 0151 250 6128, email sandy.bryson [at] merseycare.nhs.uk
D10D
For high-level professional consultancy to large and small organisations, scholarly contributions to the knowledge base in the field, leadership in the field of organisational consultancy and the capacity to train others in organisational consultancy.
To enter the Professional Doctorate programme, students must have achieved the MA in Consultation and the Organisation: Psychoanalytic Approaches (D10) and must be engaged in current work of an appropriate nature.
Organising Tutor
Judith Bell
Paul Haviland, Course Administrator020 8938 2519 groupsadmin [at] tavi-port.org
http://www.tavi-port.org/node/340
M7
Suitable for those interested in applying detailed observation and a psychoanalytical framework to their professional work with children, young people and their carers.
Organising Tutor
Katie Argent
Thomas Hickey, Course Administrator
020 8938 2293 observation2admin [at] tavi-port.org