
ONLINE COURSE: INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY, PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
(Theory & Practice)
CPD certificate course and an introduction to study at the PA. Students who complete the course can apply to both the Diploma in Community and Psychotherapy and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training.
The pandemic has exposed and intensified the existing inequalities of an already profoundly unfair society. Many people who were precarious and isolated before the coronavirus struck now feel even more marginalised. We are living through a social transformation whose outcome is uncertain: it is doubtful whether the “new normal” will actually improve the conditions of ordinary life. One thing is clear, however: more of our time is going to be spent online. Sociologists have even begun to speak of the Internet as our “home”, though for some this means the boredom and blurred boundaries of work-from-home. Psychotherapists and other practitioners who have moved their practice onto digital platforms such as Zoom may never fully return to face-to-face work, and this is just as big a shift for those who use their services as it is for the practitioners themselves.
Online communication has the power to create new forms of dialogue and debate. People who might otherwise never meet can now talk via Zoom and other platforms. Do virtual platforms offer the opportunity for meaningful connection through online conversation? This is a question to be explored in both theory and practice by this new course which includes seminars on a variety of psychotherapeutic, philosophical and social questions.
As part of the PA’s study programme, this online course has been developed to meet the demand for those interested in the PA’s work (and our continuing enquiry into the assumptions we carry about ourselves and others) who aren’t able to attend our established in-person courses in London.
The course will comprise of three terms of seven Wednesday evenings (seminar and experiential group) plus one weekend per term (full programme below).
APPLICATION AND FEES
Application is by interview. The course costs £640 plus a £50 interview fee. There are a limited number of bursaries available for students surviving on low income.
Interviews for 2022/23 start in April. Click here to apply.
PROGRAMME
Course Coordinators:
Andrea Heath & Lucy King
Experiential Group Facilitators:
Jeremy Cutler & Emma Stroker
TERM 1
EXPERIENTIAL GROUP 6—7.30pm
SEMINARS 8—9.30pm
20 & 27 October 2021
The Shape of Psychotherapy
Lucy King
3 & 10 November
What is Community?
Jake Osborne
17 & 24 November
On Phenomenology
Miles Clapham
1 December
Pros and Cons of Online Groups
Rob White
Weekend 1
Saturday 11 December
11—12.30 & 1.30—3pm
Containing, Containers, Boundaries, Borders and Homes
Alison Davies & Mandy Carr
Sunday 12 December
11—12.30
Ethics, Existentialism, Politics and Psychoanalysis—What in Psychotherapeutic Practice Should Come First?
Del Loewenthal
1.30—3pm
Experiential Group
TERM 2
EXPERIENTIAL GROUP 6—7.30pm
SEMINARS 8—9.30pm
19 & 26 January 2022
From Darwin to Freud—On the Origin of Treatment
Eli Jesner
2 & 9 February
Community and Social Class
Paul Gurney
16 & 23 February
Homelessness and Psychosis
Andreas Constandinos
2 March
Asylums
Andrea Heath & Lakis Georghiou
Weekend 2
Saturday 12 March
11—12.30 & 1.30—3.00pm
Community and Racism
Harjeet Sorya & Onel Brooks
Sunday 13 March
11—12.30
The Organisation as a Source of Individual Purpose
Dan Sofer
1.30—3pm
Experiential Group
TERM 3
EXPERIENTIAL GROUP 6—7.30pm
SEMINARS 8—9.30pm
27 April & 4 May
On Exile
Salma Bhatti
11 May
Homecoming
Melike Kayhan
18 May
Scapegoat
Amanda Ferozha
25 May
Suicide in the Community
Ben Scanlon
1 & 8 June
Reading, Resounding and Responding: The Grace, Humility and Intelligence of Ordinary Language, Poetry, Philosophy and Psychotherapy
Robbie Lockwood
Weekend 3
Saturday 18 June
11—12.30 & 1.30—3pm
Family Constellations
Paul & Carol Zeal
Sunday 19 June 2022
11—12.30
On Endings
Christina Moutsou
1.30—3pm
Experiential Group