INTRODUCTORY COURSE IN PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

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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 Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training. 

 

OVERVIEW

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The course takes place on Monday 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, in particular phenomenology as well as ideas drawn from art, literature, the politics of psychiatry, power and lived experience. 

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REQUIREMENTS

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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. 

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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

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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.

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FULL PROGRAMME

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 Introductory Course in Philosophy and Psychotherapy    

 

2020-21

Course Coordinators - Lucy King, Andrea Heath 

Experiential Group Facilitator - Daniela Bruni

Administration - Mary Enright, Michele Morgan 

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• Experiential group begins at 6.15pm and lasts ninety minutes

• 7.45pm break

• Seminar begins at 8pm and lasts ninety minutes

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Term 1 

 

18 & 25 October

Why Philosophy ?

Barbara Latham

 

1 &8 November

Theory in Psychotherapy - Use and misuse

Lucy King

 

15 & 22 November
What is community?

Jake Osborne

 

29 & 6 Dec

Ethics, Existentialism, Politics and Psychoanalysis - what in psychotherapeutic practice should come first?’
Del Loewenthal

 

13 Dec

Asylums

Andrea Heath & Lakis Georghiou

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Term 2

24 & 31 January 2022

Politics of Therapy 1: R. D. Laing

Politics of Therapy 2: David Cooper

Rob White

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