Our main aim is the development, nationally and internationally of the Research Centre for Therapeutic Education's inter-disciplinary approach, with a focus on psychology and sociology/anthropology (exploring both the psychological therapies and therapeutic research as cultural practices), together with art, counselling, education, health sciences, management, philosophy, photography, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

We are currently interested in the inter-disciplinary exploration of the training of psychological therapists, interrelationships between developmental psychology and the psychological therapies, education, and methodological issues in relation to practice and research, with particular reference to continental philosophy.