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— 1 — Masters and Doctoral Programs in the Tradition of Depth Psychology

Pacifica Graduate Institute is an accredited, employee-owned graduate school dedicated to excellence in education. The Institute’s programs in psychology, the humanities, and mythological studies are informed by the rich tradition of depth psychology.

Depth psychology calls attention to the importance of what lies beneath the surface of conscious awareness. That vital importance is clearly revealed in the arts and literature of every culture, as well as through the dreams and collective symptoms of individuals and societies.

At Pacifica, leading scholars have developed a cutting-edge curriculum that meets the needs of a diverse student body. Educational formats include three- and four-day monthly learning sessions, and blended distance learning, low-residency degree programs.

The Institute’s two campuses lie between the Pacific Ocean and Santa Ynez Mountains, a few miles south of Santa Barbara, California. Tranquil and beautiful, they form ideal settings for contemplation and study.

Pacifica was born during the cultural upheaval of the early 1970s—a time when existing paradigms were questioned and new ones came into being. That sense of innovation, coupled with an abiding respect for the power of ideas, has remained central to the Institute’s culture and curriculum.

Pacifica is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). For gainful employment information, visit pacifica.edu/gainfulemployment The information in this catalog is as accurate as possible at the time of publication; however, the Institute reserves the right to make changes during the life of this catalog.

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— 2 — Ph.D. in Depth Psychology WITH SPECIALIZATION IN PSYCHOTHERAPY This doctoral specialization is designed to deepen and expand the student’s psychothera- peutic practice, and work, as well as addressing the wide range of personal, social, and cultural challenges of our time.

Pacifica’s Depth Psychotherapy specialization and deepen their ability to share nuanced emotional offers students the opportunity to engage in exciting connections with others. Graduates are often drawn to conversations taking place in the field of psychodynamic work as clinical supervisors and to teach in college and psychotherapy and gain clarity about their own unique university settings. psychotherapeutic approach. Depth Psychotherapy is The Depth Psychotherapy specialization is designed for based upon the premise that becoming an excellent students who have completed sufficient coursework for clinician is a life-long process of personal and licensing at the master’s level. This theoretical foundation professional transformation embodying C.G. Jung’s allows for an emphasis on experiential, -centered process of individuation. At its heart, there lies an intrinsic learning, particularly in the clinical case presentations, connection to the collective psyche that crosses the supervision courses, and research sequence. In addition boundaries of time and culture. to faculty mentoring, students are supported by the Each student develops the critical insights and skills mutual respect, diversity, and collegiality of their cohort. of an advanced 21st century clinician-scholar, guided STUDENTS IN THIS PROGRAM: by experts rooted in the rich traditions of Jungian, Nurture their unique talents as psychotherapists by archetypal, and psychoanalytic psychologies. Clinical reimagining the practice of psychotherapy for the 21st acumen is enhanced through a series of seminars, century. colloquia, and case consultations that challenge the Deepen their understanding of the archetypal heart, , and , in addition to direct engagement dimensions of human experience as applied to clinical with interdisciplinary studies such as myth, literature, practice and independent scholarly research. , music, culture, nature, and contemporary sciences like complexity theory and neurobiology. Learn to integrate differing clinical approaches and Courses are offered in three areas: develop a style of practice in keeping with their temperament and personal . Theory and Traditions of Depth Psychotherapy Develop the full range of their natural therapeutic Psychotherapy Informed by the Humanities, Arts, ability through a rich curriculum integrating Jungian and Sciences and post-Jungian psychology with contemporary Integrated Praxis: Research and Casework . Cultivate greater awareness of the presence of the The curriculum cultivates the intellectual and imaginal Self in the therapeutic situation and learn to work capacities to address a wide range of personal, social, with dreams and other manifestations of unconscious and cultural challenges that are emerging in our process. complex world. Students also learn to sustain a profound reciprocal relationship with unconscious processes

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— 3 — Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with Specialization in Psychotherapy curriculum overview

Depth Psychology with Specialization in Psychotherapy classes take place during three-day sessions (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) approximately once each month during the fall, winter, and spring quarters. Summer quarter coursework is offered in a single five-day session.

First Year Third Year

Fall The Inner Life: Dreams and Fall Jungian Psychotherapy III: 21st Century Approaches – DPP 780, 2 Units and Controversies – DPP 961, 2 Units Relational I – DPP 763, 2 Units Interpersonal Neurobiology, , Foundations for Research in Depth Psychotherapy I and Depth Psychology – DPP 870, 2 Units – DPP 784, 2 Units Case Consultation VI: Processes of Supervision – DPP 950, 2 Units Winter Jungian Psychotherapy I – DPP 761, 2 Units Depth Approaches to Psychopathology: Alternatives to Dissertation Development III – DPP 942A, 2/3 Unit the DSM – DPP 760, 2 Units Winter Psyche in Nature – DPP 732, 2 Units Case Consultation I – DPP 750, 2 Units Psychotherapy and Culture II: Digital Life, Cyborgs, and the Soul – DPP 974, 2 Units Spring Historical Foundations of Depth Psychology – DPP 730, 2 Units Case Consultation VII – DPP 951, 2 Units Case Consultation II – DPP 751, 2 Units Dissertation Development IV – DPP 942B, 2/3 Unit Scholarly Writing and Publication – DPP 785, 2 Units Spring Psychotherapy and Culture III: Developmental Trauma and the Body – DPP 975, 2 Units Summer Arts, Psychology, and the Poetic Imagination – DPP 896, 2 Units Psyche and the Sacred – DPP 920, 2 Units Psychotherapy Informed by the Mythic Tradition Case Consultation VIII – DPP 952, 2 Units – DPP 921, 2 Units Dissertation Development V – DPP 942C, 2/3 Unit Summer Oral Comprehensive Presentation – DPP 994, 2 Units Second Year Advanced Imaginal Psychotherapy – DPP 962, 2 Units

Fall Relational Psychotherapies II: New Trends in Psychodynamic CONTINUING Treatment – DPP 863, 2 Units Dissertation Development I: Imagination, Calling, and Rigor Dissertation Writing – DPP 999, 15 Units in Doctoral Scholarship – DPP 832, 2 Units Case Consultation III – DPP 850, 2 Units Winter Jungian Psychotherapy II – DPP 861, 2 Units This curriculum may vary depending upon changing academic needs. Selected courses may have online components. The required fourth and Archetypal Psychotherapy: A Mythopoetic Approach to fifth years of study focus on reading, research, and dissertation writing. Working with the Psyche – DPP 762, 2 Units Psychotherapy and Culture I: Indigenous Healing Traditions – DPP 830, 2 Units Spring Case Consultation IV – DPP 851, 2 Units Dissertation Development II: Qualitative Methodology – DPP 782, 2 Units Literary Foundations for Depth Psychotherapy: Narratives of the Personal and Collective Psyche – DPP 835, 2 Units Summer Working with Dreams – DPP 872, 2 Units Case Consultation V: Theories of Supervision – DPP 852, 2 Units

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— 4 — Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with Specialization in Psychotherapy course descriptions

THEORY AND TRADITIONS OF Jungian Psychotherapy II Advanced Imaginal Psychotherapy DEPTH PYSCHOTHERAPY DPP 861, 2 units DPP 962, 2 units This course explores the phenomena of This course explores the traditions that Historical Foundations , which marked a new creative comprise the field of imaginal psychology, of Depth Psychology phase in Jung’s later work that has far- particularly phenomenology, and elaborates DPP 730, 2 units reaching theoretical and psychotherapeutic the unique features of imaginal psychotherapy This course presents the organizing implications. Synchronicity involved a that flow from these traditions. Students perspectives and therapeutic approaches redefinition of reality based on acausality, develop an imaginal approach to issues such which have shaped contemporary Western nonlocality, and the understanding that the as , unconscious processes, psychology. Students learn the philosophical inner world of psyche and the outer world of symptoms, and dreams, and foster sensitivity principles of psychological models from matter correspond to each other. Students to the symbolic depths and metaphorical antiquity to the present era, such as examine the implications of these shifts for richness of the patient’s and therapist’s those associated with religious traditions, clinical practice including the centrality of ways of using language. In this course, medicine, and the schools of , the dream, visionary experiences, and the psychotherapy is regarded as a vocation in , existential, humanistic, post- religious function of the psyche. which the awakened heart is the organ of modern, and multicultural and cross-cultural vision essential to healing. psychology. The course includes a discussion Jungian Psychotherapy III: of the history and development of psychology 21st Century Approaches and Relational Psychotherapies I as an intellectual and scientific discipline, Controversies DPP 763, 2 units and depth psychotherapy as a practice. DPP 961, 2 units This course introduces students to This course begins with an overview contemporary developments in relational Jungian Psychotherapy I and assessment of Jung’s work as a psychotherapy, which places human DPP 761, 2 units psychiatrist and psychotherapist—the relationships and mutuality at the center This course discusses such classical Jungian clinical roots of Jungian theory out of which of the therapeutic endeavor. Relational concepts as ego, persona, , animus/ its concepts emerged. The methods of theory integrates a wide range of anima, Self, complex, archetype, collective Jungian psychotherapy are examined from current psychotherapeutic approaches, unconscious, transcendent function, and their inception (including in and around including , self- individuation. In addition, it explores Jung’s “Red Book”) through contemporary psychology, intersubjectivity, interpersonal dreams, active imagination, typology, modifications. Drawing on complexity psychotherapy, and some aspects of modern and transference/ theory, with observations of systems that Kleinian and Freudian thinking. The core considerations in the context of Jung’s self-organize and have emergent properties, concepts of technique studied include the approach to psychotherapeutic practice. contemporary developments in the theory transference/countertransference field, the Further clinical application of Jungian and practice of Jungian psychotherapy are therapeutic alliance, projective identification, thought is demonstrated through readings of explored. The course discusses the role of co-creation of the therapeutic interaction, primary texts and secondary source material the interactive field in the therapeutic action attachment theory, the psychoanalytic as they elucidate Jung’s original work. The of psychodynamically oriented therapy and frame, defense and resistance, insight and course pays particular attention to how the unique contributions of the Jungian interpretation, the mutual construction of various forms of psychopathology can be model, including the use of alchemical ideas. meaning, and termination. viewed on multiple levels from the personal and cultural-historical to the archetypal, mythic, and imaginal.

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— 5 — Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with Specialization in Psychotherapy course descriptions

Relational Psychotherapies II: Depth Approaches to Arts, Psychology, and the New Trends in Psychodynamic Psychopathology: Alternatives Poetic Imagination Treatment to the DSM DPP 896, 2 Units DPP 863, 2 units DPP 760, 2 units This course combines lecture, discussion, This course continues the student’s This course examines various original and experiential work to identify and explore explorations of relational theorists since psychoanalytic formulations of psychopathology the philosophical underpinnings of the Freud, including Kohut, Klein, Bion, and and continues with contemporary psychoanalytic relationship between one’s internal muse, others. It focuses primarily on current and Jungian views. Students study the emotion, psychological states (including trends in psychoanalysis and relational psychodynamic view of character formation and ) and creativity. Students immerse psychotherapy. Students look at approaches looks at the major character disorders, neuroses, themselves in the interrelationship of the to specific clinical situations and pathological and psychotic states both from the point of view arts, psychology, and poetic imagination structures and delineate the dynamics of their phenomenology and their unconscious to provide a platform for expanding affect and treatments of various psychological underpinnings. In each case students explore the tolerance and a greater facility in the symptoms including narcissist, borderline, ways in which theorists of different schools have utilization of countertransference in the and psychotic conditions. approached these disorders and have offered course of the therapeutic hour. distinctive psychotherapeutic approaches, Archetypal Psychotherapy: especially Freudian, Kleinian, self-psychological, PSYCHOTHERAPY INFORMED A Mythopoetic Approach to intersubjectivist, and Jungian contributions. BY THE HUMANITIES, ARTS, Working with the Psyche AND SCIENCES DPP 762, 2 units Interpersonal Neurobiology, Affective Neuroscience, and Depth Psyche in Nature Focusing primarily on the work of James Psychology Hillman, this course first describes the DPP 732, 2 units Jungian roots and core ideas of archetypal DPP 870, 2 Units The ethos of psyche-centered psychotherapy psychology, including the reality of the This course examines contemporary research is not merely a construct of interiority. It psyche, its plural nature, and the importance across a group of disciplines that constitute has important implications for how people of the image. It goes on to examine Hillman’s a paradigm shift in thinking about the brain situate their lives within the context of a critique of and analytical and mind. It illustrates the principles of field or system. This course departs from practice and his call to enlarge the frame transformation common to living systems, the fantasy of the autonomous ego and of practice to include myth, metaphor, and including various hypotheses concerning engages instead with the image of ego as culture. Using case material provided by the evolutionary role of ancient subcortical, a constellation within the psyche, with the students, lecture and discussions will explore emotional, bodily and imagistic processes. result that imagination about the nature of how calls for a Students explore embodied models of the individual relationship to the world also revision of many traditional clinical strategies mind/brain emphasizing intersubjectivity, shifts. Students explore the implications of and approaches. nonlinearity, and self-organization, centering an ecological view of human interactions, on the prototypic concept of regulation. Using a metaphor that offers valuable directions our current neurobiological understandings for understanding systemic perspectives on of subjective states, , and the couples, family, group, and organizational self, the course will describe contemporary psychological practice. issues such as the nature of the self and the radical interdependence of psyche, nature, and culture.

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— 6 — Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with Specialization in Psychotherapy course descriptions

Psychotherapy and Culture I: poverty, oppression, and alienation—frequently true, this idea becomes especially interesting Indigenous Healing Traditions generate dissociation as though the flesh is no to practitioners of depth psychotherapy in the DPP 830, 2 units longer a safe and hospitable home. Original ways it calls for a revision of our notions of clinical work in attachment theory by Bowlby self, suffering, pathology, and of approaches This course places the practice of and Ainsworth, now confirmed and extended by to treatment. This course explores ways that psychotherapy in dialogue with diverse contemporary neurobiological research, points a depth psychotherapist might work with the indigenous traditions of counseling and toward the need to address the entire bodymind. religious function of the psyche. healing from one or more non-Western This course explains the renewed emphasis on cultural settings. By examining similarities somatosensory awareness in psychotherapy, Psychotherapy Informed and differences with other traditions students a reversal of the durable cultural legacy of by the Mythic Tradition can begin to appreciate the deep common Cartesian dualism that affects so many healing DPP 921, 2 units ground that unites all forms of working with modalities. Students learn the core principles the psyche. Students also develop greater Freud, Jung, and many of their critics and and skillful use of a bottom-up therapeutic awareness of culture-specific attitudes about followers have consistently and directly approach to trauma and develop a felt sense of pathology and health that tend to become recognized the natural connection between the embodied psyche in their personal lives and codified in Western clinical practice. mythology and psychology. Mythology clinical work. is often seen as a kind of psychology in Psychotherapy and Culture II: its use of images, stories of struggle and Literary Foundations for Depth Digital Life, Cyborgs, and the Soul transformation, and in the way it connects Psychotherapy: Narratives of the us across boundaries of culture, time, and DPP 974, 2 units Personal and Collective Psyche space. Students examine this historical Contemporary culture has seen the human- DPP 835, 2 units connection between mythology, psychology, machine interface decisively dissolve to such When wrote of tragedy in his Poetics and psychotherapy as well as the mythic an extent that few people can exist without in the 5th century BCE, he observed that some base of psychology and the healing arts. their technology, be it smart phones, titanium cathartic or therapeutic cleansing occurred by joints, or Facebook page. People now work, means of poetry. His discovery has remained INTEGRATED PRAXIS: love, and play in cyber culture, unwilling and, true of poetry’s power to assist psyche’s RESEARCH AND CASEWORK in some cases, unable to retreat from it. This healing by acknowledging its shadowed course examines the benefits and the costs contours. Classic narratives have contemporary The Inner Life: Dreams and Active of becoming cyborg—the enhanced human— relevance. Through revealing the movement of Imagination which is an image of both horror and hope. soul in its struggles to know itself and its relation DPP 780, 2 units Students explore their own dependence to a larger world order, literature holds up a upon technology, discuss how digital life Throughout time and across cultures, mirror to the personal and collective psyche. manifests in contemporary psychological dreams have opened the door to the psyche, symptoms, and consider how it shapes the offering contact with the transcendent and Psyche and the Sacred practice of psychotherapy in the 21st century. nourishment for the soul. This class considers DPP 920, 2 units Jungian and post-Jungian approaches to the Psychotherapy and Culture III: The psyche’s capacity and affinity for sacred dream and explores their careful integration Developmental Trauma experience, as expressed in religion, ritual, into psychotherapeutic work. The main focus and the Body and encounters with the numinosum, of the class is on developing personal ability DPP 975, 2 units continually remind us of the importance of and style in relating to dreams. We invite a a spiritual consideration in all psychological lived experience of dream consciousness to Attachment wounds produced by developmental work. Jung once said that all psychological be present by sharing our own dreams and trauma—exhibited within the family and often problems are essentially religious problems. If images throughout the class. reinforced through a sociocultural legacy of

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— 7 — Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with Specialization in Psychotherapy course descriptions

Working with Dreams Scholarly Writing and Publication Dissertation Development II: DPP 872, 2 units DPP 785, 2 units Qualitative Methodologies This course offers students further insights This course combines lecture and small group DPP 782, 2 units into the dreaming psyche, including cross- discussion to introduce and augment students’ This course compares and contrasts key cultural approaches to dream figures and research and writing skills with the aim of qualitative methodologies, including their the dream time that contextualize traditional publishing their work. The intention is to use origin, history, epistemological assumptions, psychoanalytic assumptions. It expands the student’s clinical experience with patients and theoretical basis as well as their practical students’ skills in working with night-time as the starting point and ground for theoretical and ethical implications. Discussion also dream and waking vision as autonomous contributions to scholarship in psychology. focuses on contemporary critiques of traditional images from the psyche that may be fruitfully What research questions that have personal, methods to address their limitations and biases. addressed at the personal, cultural-historical, professional, and cultural relevance live in Students learn how questions of methodology and mythical level in clinical work. The course the clinician’s practice itself? The courses are organically related to the research topic may also explore different modes of active help students develop ideas for short journal and affect the organization and outcome imagination useful in paying attention to articles as well as imagine and formulate their of the work. The course emphasizes data the dream images, including art and dance/ dissertation topic. As a result, topics may gathering and data analysis, which is intended movement therapy. include a review of research methods and to give students practical hands-on experience approaches, essential research skills such as working with research data as well as guide Foundations for Research in Depth finding and reviewing key literature, and a them in choosing a possible methodology for Psychotherapy I discussion of dissertation writing at Pacifica. their dissertation topic. DPP 784, 2 units Dissertation Development I: Dissertation Development III, IV, V This course invites students to contemplate Imagination, Calling, and Rigor in how the fathomless psyche affects the DPP 942 A, B, C, 2/3 unit per Doctoral Scholarship quarter process of research. Taking seriously the core philosophical assumption of depth DPP 832, 2 units These seminars span the third year of psychology, the reality of the unconscious, Working with image, dream, symptom, and coursework to slowly and organically guide introduces profound shifts in one’s ontology, synchronicity, this course helps students students toward the completion of an epistemology, and methodology. In light of attune themselves to the vocational nature of approved dissertation concept paper. Each this, what can researchers claim to know and depth psychological inquiry, then refine the student, in consultation with the instructor, how do they know it? This course introduces topic into a focused research question. Lecture sets individual learning goals. The course students to some of the key ideas that and discussion introduce the dissertation answers any and all questions concerning affect research including psyche, archetype, handbook and explain the research process at dissertation writing at Pacifica, including image, and the imaginal, explains Jung’s Pacifica in terms of its key milestones: concept how to refine a research question, select technique of active imagination, and teaches paper, proposal, final draft, and the oral and review relevant literature, choose an close reading and textual analysis as part defense. Students critically review Pacifica appropriate research methodology, articulate of a general introduction to the practice of dissertations to understand the scholarly a thoughtful approach to research ethics, and hermeneutics. form and also to augment their background form a dissertation committee. By the end of knowledge of the topic. Through a thorough, the spring quarter, most or all students will systematic critique of their own work, students emerge with an approved concept paper. expand their knowledge of scholarly writing Prerequisites: DPP 942 A for DPP 942 B and and learn the central importance of re- DPP 942 B for DPP 942 C. Pass/No Pass visioning their ideas and language to explore the deep psyche.

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— 8 — Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with Specialization in Psychotherapy course descriptions

Oral Comprehensive Presentation challenges of technology, depth approaches self rather than only considering technical DPP 994, 2 units to assessment and diagnosis, transference, mastery of a skillset. It emphasizes recognizing and ethical problems. During the third year, and engaging unconscious processes as A key aspect of doctoral studies is the students present a control paper to examine they enter the supervisory setting, including gradual movement from the realm of student their clinical work with one client in depth. parallel processes, enactments, and resonant to the realm of professor. Whether or not a Pass/No Pass and synchronistic phenomena. Students who student ultimately becomes a teacher, each already function as supervisors in their work must still give back to the world a synthesis Case Consultation V: will bring supervisory dilemmas to the class for of what he or she has learned. In this course Theories of Supervision reflection and discussion. Students without this students develop effective presentation DPP 852, 2 units experience will work with classmates, taking skills to prepare them for speaking and turns practicing the supervisory knowledge teaching, including an important capstone This course combines lecture and small learned in Case Consultation IV. Everyone will in the doctoral journey at Pacifica, the oral group discussions that focus on various have an opportunity to present a supervision defense of the dissertation. The course is processes of becoming a supervisor experience, exploring and developing conducted like a professional conference, of depth psychotherapists. Topics may competency in psychodynamic supervision in which the presentations are timed and include establishing the supervisory frame; through group discussion facilitated by they conclude with a question and answer issue of authority, competency, certainty instructors who have long, established careers session. In addition, instructors will use and shame in beginning to conduct as supervisors. Prerequisite: DPP 852 Pass/ their observations to discuss the principles supervision; differentiating supervision No Pass of effective speaking and of from psychotherapy (teach/treat dilemmas, teaching. Pass/No Pass etc.);building a supervisory relationship; Dissertation Writing models of supervision (psychoeducation/ Case Consultation I, II, III, IV, mentor/developmental/interpersonal/ DPP 999, 15 units VII, VIII intersubjective/self-psychological/Jungian Under the supervision of a Dissertation DPP 750, DPP 751, DPP 850, DPP and archetypal, etc.); transference/ Committee, the student submits a proposal, 851, DPP 951, and DPP 952, 2 units countertransference concerns, parallel conducts original research, writes, and each process, enactments, impasses, evaluation defends the doctoral dissertation. This course and termination of supervision. Special traditionally follows the completion of all The goals of the case consultation courses topics such as , active other coursework and successful completion are to integrate theoretical learning with imagination, psychodrama, ethics, and of the comprehensive exams. However, practical experience, and to demonstrate a uses of other therapies such as body work, students who demonstrate readiness may variety of approaches to practice from a depth and pharmacological treatments within choose to apply for this course while enrolled perspective. Students present a case for the supervisory context are also topics for in regular coursework. This option requires depth supervision at least once per quarter. considerations. Pass/No Pass approval from the Chair of the specialization. In addition to case consultation, each course Additional fees will be assessed for this will address a particular theme that typically course. Pass/No Pass mirrors specific material in other coursework Case Consultation VI: including topics such as maintaining a mythic Processes of Supervision sensibility, working with image, dream, and DPP 950, 2 units story, issues of race and cultural diversity, This course, which is experiential in nature, socioeconomic forms of suffering including helps students become the most effective poverty, oppression, and alienation, the supervisor they can be through the use of

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— 9 — Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with Specialization in Psychotherapy requirements and examinations

Requirements for Graduation not contain any license-specific coursework. Furthermore, although students will engage in some form of psychotherapeutic practice 1. Students must complete a total of 83 quarter units to fulfill the while in this specialization, Pacifica Graduate Institute does not degree requirement for graduation. A minimum grade of “C” authorize, monitor, or supervise that practice, nor do we arrange is required in each completed course. A cumulative grade point or administratively support traineeships, pre- or post-doctoral average of 3.0 must be maintained. internships, or other licensing practice requirements. 2. Students must comply with attendance requirements as stated in the Student Handbook. Comprehensive examinations The comprehensive examination consists of a written portion 3. Students must successfully pass a comprehensive written taken in the spring of second year and an oral portion taken in the examination at the end of the second year of coursework. summer of third year. The written exam is divided into three sections 4. Students must successfully present a Control Paper describing corresponding to the three study tracks of the specialization: Theory their clinical work with one client to two faculty members during and Traditions of Depth Psychotherapy; Psychotherapy Informed by the third year of the clinical practica. the Humanities, Arts, and Sciences; and Integrated Praxis: Research and Casework. It is designed to assess knowledge gained in the 5. Students must successfully complete a comprehensive oral first two years of coursework and serves as a qualifying exam that presentation at the end of the third year of course work. students must pass in order to continue into the third year of study. 6. Students must write, submit, and defend an original dissertation The third year oral examination consists of the student’s formal oral accepted by the faculty. presentation addressing the ways the three years of study have informed and seeded their work. 7. Students are advised to take part in depth-oriented psychotherapy or analysis while enrolled. While this is not monitored or required for graduation, it is strongly recommended. Control Paper During the third year case presentation series, each student presents Practicum requirements a control paper that demonstrates his or her clinical work and the ability to synthesize a variety of appropriate clinical perspectives There is no minimum number of required hours of practice, but while maintaining his or her own unique style of practice. students must be engaged in the practice of psychotherapy while enrolled in coursework. This assures that all students will be able to participate fully in the sequence of practicum courses. Pacifica Doctoral Dissertation does not provide supervision as required for licensure or any other The dissertation process involves the completion of all coursework in purpose. Students must provide for their own insurance coverage for research methodologies, dissertation development, and dissertation professional liability. writing. Students must complete Dissertation Development I and have an approved Concept Paper before enrolling in Dissertation Notice regarding internship and licensure Writing. The Dissertation Committee is composed of a Chair, a Reader, and an External Reader. Each committee member must possess an The Depth Psychology with Emphasis in Psychotherapy specialization earned doctorate based in part on a dissertation unless the Research is designed specifically for those who are already licensed or already Coordinator for the specialization waives this requirement. have sufficient academic and other credentials to pursue licensure at the level in which they intend to practice. The degree provides in-depth education in the theory and practice of psychotherapy and related research practices. Although some students may wish to pursue licensure after earning the doctorate, this curriculum does

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