Pre-Masters and Masters study

Uniquely combining clinical and academic approaches

You're taught by lecturers who are world-class scholars and also by clinical practitioners, so you learn different ways to look at the world, based on real-world experience, up-to-date and applicable knowledge. Our strong connections to the local NHS and other organisations give you the opportunity to go on placements and institutional observations, to help you put theory into practice.

Our teaching

We want participation - we don't just talk at you, we want to hear your stories and understand how you see the world so everyone can learn more about the human experience. We support you throughout your course through regular catch ups with your personal tutor.

You develop your research skills by working on your own project focusing on the topic that fascinates you most. We give you a good grounding in psychoanalytic theory, both traditional and contemporary work, so you can go on to further training, train as a psychoanalyst or have a successful career in many other fields.

You will be joining a thriving, international community. Our Postgraduate Taught and Postgraduate Research students come to us from all over the globe attracted by our reputation as a specialist academic centre. We currently have students from 29 countries, including the US, Canada, China, India, France, Germany, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Iran, South Africa, Turkey and Nigeria.