MPhil & PhD in Art Psychotherapy
Full-time or part-time.
Please see How to apply.
We prefer you to have an MA in Art Therapy/Art Psychotherapy.
Post-doctoral studies; applied research in art psychotherapy and related fields; funded projects; career progression and career change.
Research; research methodologies; critical evaluation in visual, oral and written forms.
Please see Tuition fees.
PACE
Please see Research degrees for information about starting your research, upgrading to PhD registration, and submitting your thesis. For MPhil and PhD study, you usually register for research by written thesis (although there are also possibilities for research based on a written element and studio practice). Whatever your topic, you have your first supervisor in Art Psychotherapy and may have your second in another Department – Art, Educational Studies, Psychology, or Sociology, for example. You meet your supervisors regularly for discussion and guidance, and present your work to the Art Psychotherapy research student group. You also attend the Goldsmiths Research Methods Training Course.
Supervision is currently available in: art therapists and their art; cross-cultural issues; evidence-based practices; group work; history and development of the professions in the UK and internationally; occupational choice, career development and role change of arts therapists and arts therapy trainees; clinical work with various client populations. Current research topics include: key issues in art psychotherapy with the blind; the creative experience inside and outside an art psychotherapy group; the image as an assessment tool with children who have an autistic spectrum disorder; thinking about art with adults who have learning disabilities; art therapists’ working environments.
Assessment
Thesis and viva voce.
Application enquiries
Please see how to apply for information on applying to this programme.