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ONLINE COURSE: INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY, PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
(Theory & Practice)
This is a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Certificate course which is conducted online (via Zoom). As well as being an introduction to study at the Philadelphia Association, completion of this course or the in-person courses, is a requirement for anyone wishing to train as a psychotherapist with the PA. It does not, however, guarantee a place on the psychotherapy training. Many students take this course for its own sake rather than as a stepping-stone to further study.
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Before the recent pandemic, all the PA's courses and events were exclusively in-person.
In common with most organisations in the UK during the pandemic, the PA had to move all its activities online. One of the discoveries we made, was that there is keen interest in the PA's Study Programme from people in other parts of the UK and around the world. Making courses accessible online has enabled people to participate when previously that would not have been possible. Whilst other courses returned to our centre in North-West London, a decision was made to maintain one online course. Students join from different continents, bringing a rich diversity of cultural perspectives which enhance the learning experience for all participants. The online course also makes participation possible for those unable to attend for other reasons.
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As a relatively new innovation in the PA's Study Programme, this online course has been developed to meet the demand of those interested in the PA's work - our continuing enquiry into the assumptions we carry about ourselves and others.
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The course takes place on Wednesday evenings (seminar and experiential group)
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APPLICATION AND FEES
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Application is by interview. The course costs £700 plus a £50 interview fee. There are a limited number of bursaries available for students surviving on low income.
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We are currently arranging interviews
Click here to apply.
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2024/25 PROGRAMME
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​Experiential Group Facilitators:
Jeremy Cutler & Emma Stroker
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​First Term
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16 & 23 October
Use & Misuse of Theory
Lucy King
30 October
What is Community?
Jake Osborne
6 November
PA Houses
Kay Holmes
13 & 20 November
Laing’s Anti-Psychoanalysis and Ontological Insecurity
Kevin Ball
27 November & 4 December
Unthinking Hate
The Conception of Abject
Lakis Georghiou
11 & 18 December
AI Therapy - Philosophical, Ethical and Political issues
Paul Atkinson
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Second Term
22 & 29 January
The World Comes First: the social context of psychotherapy and its philosophical underpinnings
Paul Gurney
5 & 12 February
Decolonising Psychotherapy (Title tbc)
Alia Butt
19 & 26 February
Psychotic Delusion and the Concept of Reality
Daniela Bruni
5 & 12 March
Private Space
James Mann
19 & 26 March
Exploring Suicide, what it evokes in us and what philosophy can be drawn from to help encountering the phenomena
Ben Scanlan
2 April
Scapegoat
Del Loewenthal
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30 April & 7 May
Buddhism & Psychotherapy
Andreas Constandinos
14 & 21 May
Title TBC
Robbie Lockwood
28 May 4 June -
Psychoanalysis & Gender
Kit Zinovieff
11 & 18 June
Ethics & Psychotherapy
Elie Jesner
25 June
Endings
Mark Elmer
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PA Study Programme Saturday Morning Online Seminars.
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In addition to the regular meetings of each individual course, students from all the courses are welcome to attend the PA Saturday morning online seminars.
via Zoom.
10 - 11.30am
​November 2024​
PA Communities
Kay Holmes
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December 14 2024
Training to be a Psychotherapist
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January 25 2025
Hell is other people: existential approach to anorexia.
Kevin Ball
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1 & 8 February 2025​
The therapeutic use of photographs: phototherapy & therapeutic photography.
Del Loewenthal
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22 & 29 March 2025
Psychological Responses and Reactions to Climate Crisis
Paul Zeal
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April 2025
Freud & Freud
Is this the way you see me ?
Portraits
Andrea Heath & Fiona Fawkes
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​May 10 2025​
Abandoned Communities
TBC
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