Saybrook University, located in San Francisco is a school with the working adult in mind. The university was established for professionals wanting to obtain advanced degrees in the field of psychology. It is the one institution offering online counseling psychology degrees that truly reflects the influence of the psychoanalytic tradition. The school offers a certificate, master's degree and a Ph.D. in Jungian studies. The program is headed by James Hollis, Ph.D., a noted Jungian scholar and the director of the C. G. Jung Educational Center of Houston. Students study the theories of Jung and his psychoanalytic influence on the world of counseling psychology. The program blends both theory and practice. The master's degree program requires 31-34 credit hours for completion, while the Ph.D. requires 76.
Saybrook University
747 Front St.
3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
800-825-4480
saybrook.edu
Capella University in Minneapolis has emerged as a university that is recognized for its flexibility and its extensive array of degree options. Students at Capella pursue accelerated 10-week courses on a quarter credit system. The school offers an online Ph.D. in Counseling Studies. The degree program at Capella University is heavily steeped in psychoanalysis. Students at Capella must complete a total of 120 quarter credits, of which 48 may be transferred in from another institution. Students must also complete a three-day residency as part of the program.
Capella University
Capella Tower
225 S. 6th St., 9th Floor
Minneapolis, MN 55402-3389
888-227-2736
capella.edu/
Both Saybrook University and Capella University offer students numerous opportunities to study psychoanalysis as part of their degree programs. Pyschoanalysis is not an academic discipline but rather a psychological method that some psychologists and psychiatrists still use. Capella University offers courses in the Theories of Psychotherapy, Group Counseling and Psychotherapy and Human Sexuality, which formed the basis of many of Freud's psychoanalytic theories. Saybrook University offers courses in Ethics in Psychotherapy and Psychological Research, along with courses in The Interpretation of Dreams, The Practice of Psychotherapy, Psychology and Religion and The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche.