Occasional Papers by members of the PA
We will be presenting on this website articles written by members of the Philadelphia Association, and some excerpts from their publications.
Articles and excerpts to be downloaded as PDF files:
A home is broken: the closure of a Philadelphia Association household by Marie-Laure Davenport
Where in the waste is the wisdom? by Paul Gordon
Keynote speech at the UKCP Ethics Day, Kings College, London on Saturday 8 October 2005.
Respect against all odds – the PA community households by Paul Gordon
This article, published in Open Mind (2005), describes the PA community households.
On R.D.Laing: Style, Sorcery, Alienation by John Heaton
This article, published in The Psychoanalytic Review (2000) Vol 87, includes personal recollections of RD Laing.
Scepticism and Psychotherapy: A Wittgensteinian Approach by John Heaton
Published in Heart and Soul, Ed C Mace, (Routledge, 1999).
All the lonely people where do they all come from?
Facts, Feelings and Experience from the Philadelphia Association by Theodor Itten
Talk given at Lake George Conference, Association for Community Living, November 2005
Psychotherapy instead of Psychiatry? A No-brainer.
by Theodor Itten, Chapter in Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry
The Emergence of an Aesclepian Psychotherapy
by Theodor Itten from Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, January 2001
Letting the Knots Go Free by James Low
Paper presented to the 6th International Conference on Buddhism and Psychology at the Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Pomaia, Italy, 15 - 17 June 2007.
When Philosophy Meets Practice: Setting up a Philadelphia Association community household by Christina Moutsou.
Chapter from 'Therapeutic Communities for Psychosis', Routledge 2008
Open, Empty and Other, by Leon Redler
This article, published by Contemporary Buddhism, Vol. 1, No. 1, (May, 2000, Curzon Press, UK) relates the work of Emmanuel Levinas to Buddhist philosophy and practice. It is adapted from, but retains the general form of, a talk originally given at Emmanuel College, Cambridge at the International Symposium on Buddhism and Modern Western Thought in 1992
We All Go Astray , by Leon Redler
From Radical Psychology, Issue 2, Volume 7, Winter 2008
Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity: A Historical Overview of the Concept and Its Clinical Implications by M Guy Thompson, PhD
From 'Intersubjectivity and Relational Theory in Psychoanalysis', 2005
Nietzsche and Psychoanalysis: The Fate of Authenticity in a Postmodernist World by M Guy Thompson, PhD
From 'Existential Analysis' 15.2: July 2004
The Fidelity to Experience in R D Laing's Treatment Philosophy by M Guy Thompson, PhD
From 'Contemporary Psychoanalysis', Vol 33, No 4, 1997
Existential Psychoanalysis: A Laingian Perspective by M Guy Thompson, PhD
Portions of this paper were included in a lecture presentation, 'Deception, Mystification, Trauma: Laing and Freud ', presented at Duquesne University, March 11 1994 under the auspices of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center.
A Road Less Travelled: The Hidden Sources of R D Laing's Enigmatic Relationship with Authenticity by M Guy Thompson, PhD
From 'Existential Analysis', Vol 17, No 1 January 2006
The Primacy of Experience in R D Laing's Approach to Psychoanalysis by M Guy Thompson, PhD
From 'Understanding Experience: Psychotherapy, Philosophy and Postmodernism', Ed Roger Frie, New York and London, Routledge 2003
Vicissitudes of Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Situation by M Guy Thompson, PhD
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology in San Francisco on December 11 2004
More articles and excerpts will be added in due course.
