Postgraduate Prospectus

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MA Refugee Care•‡
We offer this innovative course jointly
with the Tavistock Clinic. MA Refugee
Care introduces you to a therapeutic
dimension and psychosocial perspective
for work with asylum seekers/refugees.
We equip you to be reflective and
pro-active, thus making you more effective
therapeutically in whatever role you have in
this field (eg management, education, law,
social work, psychology, psychotherapy or
community work).
We encourage suitably qualified candidates
to study our PhD Refugee Care, which
requires you to successfully complete
modules for our MA (without the
dissertation) and submit an acceptable
research proposal, then proceed to thesis
research with the aim of completing in the
normal minimum period of PhD study (in
this case, normally an additional two years
full-time or four years part-time).
MA Foundations of Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy•‡
This course is offered by and taught
fully at the Tavistock Clinic, London and
validated by us. It is a part-time course
that offers an important opportunity if you
are a health service, statutory service or
voluntary service worker wishing to gain a
substantial introduction to psychodynamic
psychotherapy. For further information,
please contact the Tavistock Clinic at:
www.tavi-port.org.
MA Management and Organisational
Dynamics•
We offer this course jointly with Essex
Business School and equip you with
powerful tools to support your creative
work in organisations. Uniquely we draw
upon both critical management theory
and current thinking on underlying group
dynamics. This ensures our approach is
both robust and reflexive, with seminars
drawing on contributions from leading
thinkers in the field.
MA Management and Organisational
Dynamics will interest you if you are
employed as a leader, a consultant or
a researcher, or if you wish to get to
grips with the complex human processes
that impact on change in organisations.
MA Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious•
This interdisciplinary course draws on
complementary expertise in our Centre
and in our Department of Literature, Film,
and Theatre Studies. You critically explore
a variety of theories of myth, both ancient
and modern, but focus on the depth
psychological theories of Freud and Jung,
which postulate that the real subject matter
of myth is the unconscious mind. With
these theoretical foci, we examine the role
of myth in literature, with special emphasis
on mythic representations of the city in
western culture and the uses of myth in
some of the key texts of literary modernism,
whose authors worked in an intellectual
milieu informed by the new depth
psychologies.
Graduates will develop key skills in oral
and written communication, and will be
able to work in an interdisciplinary way
with literary and psychoanalytic texts, which
will enhance your career prospects. Our
course will also prepare you for possible
progression to doctoral research.
MA Philosophy and Psychoanalysis•
Offered with our School of Philosophy
and Art History, MA Philosophy and
Psychoanalysis brings together
psychoanalytic and philosophical
perspectives, and uses this to illuminate
cultural, moral and existential questions.
You will study how the thinking of Freud
and later psychoanalysts has played a
major role in European philosophy in the
twentieth century. Conversely, you will also
cover how psychoanalysts have drawn on
philosophical sources in deepening their
theory and practice.
As well as developing key employability
skills, like independent thought and critical
reflection, our graduates have the
knowledge, understanding and skills to
proceed to research study in continental
European philosophy, psychoanalytic
studies, or an area of intersection between
the two.
MA Psychoanalytic Social Observation•
This course will suit you if you are a
psychoanalytic psychotherapist or trainee.
We give you an opportunity to explore
psychoanalytic social and cultural
environments, and situations relevant
to your clinical practice.
MA Psychosocial Studies•*
We run this new course with our
Department of Sociology. Psychosocial
studies allows you to explore the relation
between individual and social experience,
emotional life, and wider cultural and
political identities. Building on the insights
and research methods of both sociology
and psychoanalysis, psychosocial studies
probes the boundaries of these disciplines
with a view to adding depth and complexity
to the representation of human subjects in
their social and historical contexts.
MA Psychosocial Studies will be of interest
to you if you wish to set your psychoanalytic
knowledge inside a wider sociological
frame, want to include emotional and
unconscious factors in your social
research, or wish to explore ways in which
psychoanalysis and sociology constitutes
your theories of the self.
Diploma
If your first degree is in a subject other
than psychoanalytic studies, or your
background in psychoanalytic studies
does not provide sufficient experience
for direct entry on our taught courses, we
offer a full-time, nine-month Diploma in
Psychoanalytic Studies with English
for Academic Purposes.
If you obtain a Diploma with Merit or
Distinction, it may be possible for you to
automatically register for one of our taught
courses, so over the two years you gain a
thorough training in psychoanalytic studies.
Research study
We submitted with our Department of
Sociology in the last Research Assessment
Exercise (RAE, December 2008), which
was ranked first in the UK. We offer
interdisciplinary PhD programmes which
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