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Masters Degree in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy

Awarded by London Metropolitan University.
Leading to UKCP & HPC Registration as an Arts Psychotherapist

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Duration:

Three year part-time after completing the one year Diploma in the Therapeutic and Educational Application of the Arts Monday attendance for 2 years then once a month for the final qualifying year. Some weekend components.

Philosophy, Aims and Objectives:

Students will explore the fundamental interconnection between the artistic process and psychotherapy, in terms of their mutual concern with in-depth communication of emotional experience, and with transformation and change. The course focuses on the three-way process of psychotherapist, client and art object. Students therefore will be schooled in facilitating the richest possible relational and imaginal discourse between therapist and client. The course also aims to provide students with a thorough grounding in various theoretical models and schools of thought relating to the therapeutic relationship: the central issues of being with another; the dialogic encounter; the meeting of two subjective worlds and the study of transference and countertransference.

The Artistic Process - Full Engagement with the Art Image

The course supports the notion of the client’s full and direct engagement with the art image; that is, 'to become present in and with the art image, rather than acting simply as a notemaker or observer of the arts' (Ross, 1992). This is considered far more effective than simply 'talking about' the mental image or art image, which often results in the client reaching only a tepid or dulled awareness of their 'formed feeling'.

The course is also concerned with the potential of artistic comment to clarify or intensify any human experience. The direct imaginative experiencing offered through the Integrative Arts approach has the potential to facilitate profound and enduring change, promoting a truly alive and embodied engagement with self, others and life itself.

Theoretical Foundations

The course is Integrative in its theoretical approach, focusing in particular on the work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Eric Berne, Fritz Perls, John Bowlby (Attachment theory), Daniel Stern, James, Hillman, Heinz Kohut, Allan Schore, Jaak Panksepp.

Modules:

Module A: The Fundamentals in The Theory and Practice of Integrative Arts Psychotherapy
Module B: Clinical Skills in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy
Module C: The Therapeutic Relationship
Module D: Psychotherapeutic Concepts for Understanding Human Experience
Module E: The Artistic Experience and Emotion with Reference to Psychotherapy
Module F: Reflection and Analysis of Artistic Experience in Psychotherapy and Society