Pacifica Graduate Institute's M.A./Ph.D. Program in Depth Psychology explores the interface between psyche, culture, and nature, as it strives to help students create depth psychology for the 21st century. This program grounds students in the psychoanalytic, Jungian, archetypal, and phenomenological lineages of depth psychology. Euro-American depth psychological theories and practices are placed in dynamic dialogue with ecopsychology and psychologies of liberation from diverse cultural settings. Practices arising from depth psychology—such as dreamwork, active imagination, council praxis, arts-based community practices—are used both in the classroom and in a wide variety of community settings. Hermeneutic, phenomenological, participatory, feminist and action approaches to research aid students in relation to their own research interests.

Students who come to the study of Depth Psychology with a desire to focus their work in a particular area—be it intensive theoretical study, liberation psychologies, ecopsychology, or a deepening of clinical or cultural work—will find strong support. The Depth Psychology Program is a full doctoral program that integrates the M.A. degree within the Doctoral sequence in three areas of study.

• Depth Psychology and the Humanities
• Traditions of Depth Psychology
• Depth Psychology Research and Praxis

The Master of Arts degree is awarded upon the successful completion of the first two years curriculum, the passing of the written comprehensive examination, and acceptance by the faculty of a scholarly and potentially publishable paper. The third year completes curriculum necessary to become a candidate for the Ph.D. degree, which also requires the passing of an oral comprehensive exam. The fourth and fifth years of study focus on dissertation writing and research.