Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies

Overview

By completing the MA course, you will develop key employability skills including thinking analytically, effective essay-writing, research methods in analytical psychology and a broader understanding of depth psychological thinking, applicable to clinical and academic work. Our course could lead you to study for a PhD in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies/Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies or to work in clinical or non-clinical settings.

Topics covered on the course include:

• The history of analytical psychology, including key contributions made by women
• Intellectual precursors to, and influences on, Jung's psychology
• Key Jungian and Post-Jungian texts
• The role and place of mythology in Jung's thinking
• Jung's psychology of religion

Your future

Our graduates of Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies course offered by the University of Essex   go on to a number of different destinations, including further study and training in psychoanalysis, Jungian analysis, or psychoanalytic psychotherapy.Many of our students are already professionals, clinical and non-clinical, so return to their existing fields, either in jobs or further training, and use study with us to deepen their understanding of their work.