Welcome to the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies
- A creative and exciting field: Brings together clinical and academic interests in the role of the unconscious mind in mental health, culture, and society and fosters creative new ways of looking at these areas. The
Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies has established itself as a pioneer and leader in this field.
- World class research: Submitting with the Department of Sociology, the Centre has consistently achieved the highest rating in the UK Research Assessment Exercise,
achieving first position in
the most recent exercise. Essex as a whole was ranked as 9th best university in the UK for the quality of its research in
The Times and
The Guardian newspapers.
- Excellent teaching: Drawing on its research excellence, the Centre offers a wide range of
undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and
research opportunities suitable for students with either clinical or non-clinical interests, with full programmes in both
psychoanalytic and
Jungian thought. At Essex you will be taught and supervised by senior clinicians and world-class scholars.
- Professional applications: The Centre’s programmes include courses aimed at practitioners in a variety of areas, such as
refugee care, business management,
therapeutic communities and education, as well as psychotherapy.
- Enriched careers: The Centre's graduates take their expertise into practically every area of life, not just the psychotherapy professions and continued academic work but also the worlds of the arts, business, education, journalism, philosophy, politics, religion, and social work - wherever there is need for deeper awareness about the experiencing person and the unconscious mind.
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