INTRODUCTORY COURSE IN PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
The Introductory Course is both a stand alone certificate course and an introduction to study at the PA. Students who complete the IC can apply to the one year Diploma in Community and Psychotherapy and the full Analytic Psychotherapy Training.
OVERVIEW
The course takes place on Tuesday evenings at our premises in Hampstead, north London, and consists of a weekly seminar and an experiential group. Each student will be allocated a personal tutor.
You will be invited to study past and current psychological theories and treatments of human suffering taught in conjunction with philosophy and phenomenology as well as ideas drawn from art, literature, the politics of psychiatry, power and lived experience.
REQUIREMENTS
The Introductory Course benefits from groups of students who have a mix of backgrounds – the PA has never prized academic qualifications over other skills and experience. Sometimes people who never intended to become psychotherapists find that the Introductory Course inspires them to follow this path after all.
Being a student at the PA means you will have access to our small library and you will also be invited to attend regular PA events and contribute to the PA newsletter.
APPLICATION AND FEES
Application is by interview. The course costs £840 plus a £50 interview fee.
There are a limited number of bursaries available for students surviving on low income
To apply, please fill out the form on this page below the full programme.
FULL PROGRAMME
Experiential group facilitator: Daniela Bruni
2019–20
TIMINGS
• 8 October: introduction to the course at 5.30pm
• In subsequent weeks, the room is open to students from 5.45pm
• Experiential group begins at 6.15pm and lasts ninety minutes
• 7.45pm break
• Seminar begins at 8pm and lasts ninety minutes
2019
TERM 1
8 October
5.30pm – introductions
Mary Enright, Andrea Heath, Lucy King
Why the PA?
Barbara Latham
15, 22 October
Beginnings
Miranda Glossop
29 October, 5 November
What is psychoanalysis?
Marie-Laurie Davenport
12, 19 November
Introduction to the psychoanalytic concept of transference
Jeremy Cutler
26 November, 3 December
When are notions of ethics and trust (and our theories in general) detrimental to psychotherapy?
Del Loewenthal
2
2020
TERM 2
21, 28 January
What is community?
Jake Osborne
4, 11 February
The legacy of Laing
Kevin Ball
18 February
David Cooper's anti-psychiatry
Rob White
25 February, 4 March
[Title TBC]
Lucy King
10, 17 March
Nietzsche, scepticism and psychotherapy
Onel Brooks
TERM 3
5 May
Nietzsche, scepticism and psychotherapy
Onel Brooks
12, 19 May
Dreams
Emma Stoker
26 May, 2 June
Shame, guilt and the road towards self-acceptance
Eli Jesner
9, 16 June
The loss of ‘we’ and the promotion if ‘I’ in society. Will the current Covid pandemic change this or will we revert to self rather than community. How important is it to think about this ?
Alison Davies & Fliss Cadbury
23, 30 June
Is psychoanalytic theory useful in thinking about today’s varied contemporary family configurations?
Lakis Georghiou
30 June
5.30pm – end-of-year discussion
Andrea Heath and Lucy King