MPhil/PhD Counselling & Psychotherapy

Goldsmiths, University of London

Goldsmiths has a rich research culture, and hosts clinically and/or theoretically focused research in the fields of psychoanalysis, analytical psychology and psychodynamic counselling.We welcome applications for PhD research from all suitably qualified students from many backgrounds.Your previous educational and research background may be in fields such as the arts, film and theatre, literature, history or clinical psychotherapeutic or medical practice.You may be supervised jointly by a departmental academic and one from a further discipline if the subject requires.Recent topics of other research students include:The relationship between psychotherapy and timeThe use of mindfulness in combination with psychodynamic techniques with obsessional patientsThe 'bride in white'The contemporary status of Freud’s classical theories.

Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies