GCAS College Dublin - The Global Centre for Advanced Studies

Master of Arts in Psychoanalysis

This programme is accredited via our partnership with Woolf University.

GCAS is pleased to offer an advanced degree in psychoanalysis, accredited in the European Union. Your research will be supported by some of the world’s leading thinkers, and practitioners in psychoanalysis. Our MA in psychoanalysis exposes you to a history of psychoanalysis, psychology, and theory. The programme is divided into two parts:

• 10 short courses (3 ECTS credits each for a total of 20)
• 60 ECTS credits with MA thesis research, writing, and defending

Take an EU-accredited MA in psychoanalysis with top researchers from across the world – fully online. Focus on your research interests and develop your own theory and practice. Gain access to all  of GCAS’s E-School and in-person seminars. Earn GCAS Tokens to pay for your tuition and become a co-owner of GCAS after you graduate.

All courses are taken online via the GCAS Zoom account. A few times a year GCAS holds events that may include seminars in such places as Paris, Belfast, Dublin, Buenos Aires, New York, the Alps among other places. Students and researchers may attend these in-person seminar so long as they are registered.

Programme Description

The programme joins some of the most reputable contemporary thinkers in psychoanalysis, to introduce different positions in the psychoanalytic landscape. Its aim is to create a dialogue between different understandings of psychoanalysis, apply psychoanalysis to problems beyond the individual subject, and develop models of understanding the human mind in its interaction with the world beyond single psychoanalytic positions.

This is achieved by not capitalizing on any single figure in the psychoanalytic tradition and instead providing perspectives of classical and contemporary approaches to understanding psychoanalysis. These perspectives include but are not limited to, Jungian, Freudian, Lacanian, Deleuzian, and Winnecotian positions–interpreted by some of the most reputable contemporary figures like Bruce Fink, Todd McGowan, Jamison Webster, and others. It empowers MA researchers to understand psychoanalysis as a tool allowing a critical analysis of the human condition in its meanings and crises. United by this aim, the programme navigates through topics such as the analysis of religious phenomena such as Daoism, Buddhism, and Christianity, literature and film, clinical cases of the mind and the body, contemporary and historical political crises, and possible future developments of psychoanalytic theory.

The programme empowers MA researchers to understand psychoanalysis as a tool allowing a critical analysis of the human condition in its meanings and crises. United by this aim, the programme navigates through topics such as the analysis of religious phenomena such as Daoism, Buddhism and Christianity; literature and film; clinical cases of the mind and the body, contemporary and historical political crises, classical metaphysical problems and possible future developments of psychoanalytic theory. MA researchers are encouraged to apply the psychoanalytic paradigms introduced in the programme to tackle research questions of pressing relevance to the contemporary human condition.

Accreditation

The program is currently accredited by the European Union. Once completed, the degree can be used to continue into post-graduate education and apply for corporate or other positions. The degree does not enable you to practice as a clinical psychologist or psychoanalyst, but it does assist in being trained to become a practitioner. GCAS is working on a partnership with an accredited institution that has the authority to issue a license to practice in some places. GCAS also offers a Ph.D. specialization in Psychoanalysis to which graduates of the MA in Psychoanalysis are invited to apply.