Penn Announces New Undergraduate Minor in Psychoanalytic Studies

Penn Arts and Sciences has established a new undergraduate minor in psychoanalytic studies, making it one of the few schools in the world to offer this opportunity.

Psychoanalytic ideas provide a coherent basis for understanding how people feel and think, and how they function as individuals and in groups. These ideas, centered on unconscious emotional processes and human relationships, will bring together faculty and courses from many different departments and schools, including anthropology, philosophy, English, German literature, social work, psychiatry, and history.

The minor is designed in partnership with the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, a collaboration that will give students with the opportunity to meet monthly with a practicing psychoanalyst to learn about contemporary theories and therapies.

The minor officially launches this fall. Click here to learn more about the course offerings.

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