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 Psychotherapy Training.
OVERVIEW
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.
REQUIREMENTS
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.
2021/22 Dates
18 October - 13 December
24 January - 28 March
9 May - 27 June
FULL PROGRAMME
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
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7.45pm break
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Seminar begins at 8pm and lasts ninety minutes
Term 1
12 October
5.30pm Welcome
Introduction to the course
12, 19 October
Jake Osborne
What is Community?
26 October, 2 November
Lucy King
The Use and Abuse of Theory
9, 16 November
Bruce Scott
Psychotherapy and Religion (Kierkegaard)
23, 30 November
Jeremy Cutler
The Talking Cure: Origins and Claims
7 December
Andrea Heath
Portraits - making pictures, letting go of narratives, what is at stake ?
Term 2
18 January 2021
5-6pm - Faculty/ Course Coordinators Meeting with Students
18, 25 January
Emma Stroker
Psychology (science) and Psychotherapy (art).
1, 8 February
Eli Jesner
From Darwin to Freud: On the Origins of the Treatment
15, 22 February
Onel Brooks
Nietzsche and psychotherapy
1, 8 March
Andreas Constandinos
Therapeutic communities, psychosis and homelessness
15 March
Laura Neall, Tristan Voice
Judgments and experience in psychiatric services
Term 3
3, 10 May
Kevin Ball
The legacy of Laing
17 May
Luke Reynolds
Heidegger- How art reveals the world to us.
24, 31 May
Robbie Lockwood
On Reading, Resounding and Responding: psychotherapy as a love-as-discourse
7, 14 June
Barbara Latham
Why Philosophy ?
21, 28 June
Miles Clapham
Merleau-Ponty and the Intertwining.
28 June 5.30pm
End of course meeting
Daniela Bruni, Lucy King, Andrea Heath