Pacifica Graduate Institute
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| Motto |
Animae mundi colendae gratia |
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| Type | Private, 97% Employee-Owned Company |
| Established | 1976 |
| Chancellor | Stephen Aizenstat |
| Location | Santa Barbara, California |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | pacifica.edu |
Animae mundi colendae gratia
Pacifica Graduate Institute is an accredited American graduate school with two campuses near Santa Barbara, California. The institute offers masters and doctoral degrees in the fields of clinical psychology, counseling, mythological studies, community, liberation, ecopsychology and the humanities.
The institute is affiliated with the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), specifically the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities. The institute first gained accreditation on June 30, 1997, and continues to be accredited through WASC.
Pacifica traces many of its central ideas to the heritage of ancient story tellers, dramatists, and philosophers from all lands who recorded the workings of the imagination. The legacies of these early men and women have evolved in multiple cultural contexts and perspectives including the systematic explorations of the unconscious by Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, and other scholars of the inner life.
The concepts of depth psychology resulting from this long development are at the core of Pacifica's orientation. These ideas, such as the importance of symbol and metaphor in personal and cultural imagery and the recognition of the dynamic interplay between the natural world and the world of the human psyche, are articulated in the institute's programs.
The mission of Pacifica Graduate Institute is to foster creative learning and research in the fields of psychology and mythological studies, framed in the traditions of depth psychology.
Six degree programs are offered through monthly and three or four-day learning sessions:
Pacifica Graduate Institute dates its life as an educational institution from the 1976 inauguration of a nine-month para-professional Counseling Skills Certificate program offered by the Human Relations Center. The institute's original name was the Human Relations Institute.
The M.A. in Counseling Psychology was initiated in 1982. In 1984 the institute announced a new M.A. Counseling Psychology program with an emphasis in depth psychology. The program was launched in 1984 by Stan Passy, who drew on his doctoral work in archetypal psychology with James Hillman at the University of Dallas. Faculty and visiting lecturers have included Marion Woodman, Thomas Moore, Robert A. Johnson, and Marija Gimbutas.
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