Pacifica Graduate Institute

Pacifica Graduate Institute is an accredited, American graduate school with two campuses near Santa Barbara, California, United States. Pacifica Graduate Institute, with two beautiful campuses located between the coastal foothills and the Pacific Ocean a few miles south of Santa Barbara, California, is an accredited graduate school offering masters and doctoral degree programs in depth psychology, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, and mythological studies.

In most of the degree programs, students join their classmates once a month for three or four-day learning sessions on campus, except for the summer quarter which consists of one longer residential session of five days. For the two hybrid/online programs, students primarily work from home online and come to campus once a quarter for a four day session.

The Lambert Road Campus

The 13-acre campus is located less than a mile from the Pacific Ocean. Blessed with great natural beauty, the property affords magnificent views of the nearby Santa Ynez Mountains. In addition to classrooms and lecture halls, Pacifica's Lambert Road Campus houses
faculty and administrative offices, as well as the main branches of Pacifica's Graduate Research Library and the Pacifica Bookstore. Extensive organic gardens are also located on the Lambert Road Campus grounds.

The Ladera Lane Campus

is a 35-acre educational and retreat center nestled in the coastal foothills. Structures on the campus include an administration center, a 2,500-square-foot conference facility, classrooms, a computer resource center, and branches of the Graduate Research Library and Pacifica Bookstore. A separate residential building offers retreat- style lodgings for students. Delicious organic meals are served to students, faculty, and staff in a large communal dining hall.

Programs

A core Pacifica belief is that human experience is diverse and multi-faceted. Consequently, the Institute's degree programs are interdisciplinary in orientation and in practice. At Pacifica, the study of literature, religion, art, and mythology enhance the study of the science of psychology. In the same way, scholarship in mythological studies and the humanities is enlivened by the development of an understanding and appreciation of the tradition of depth psychology and the recurring archetypal motifs that move through the human heart and soul.

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