Excerpts
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:
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.
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.
Scepticism and Psychotherapy: A Wittgensteinian Approach by John Heaton
Published in Heart and Soul, Ed C Mace, (Routledge, 1999).
A home is broken: the closure of a Philadelphia Association household by Marie-Laure Davenport
When Philosophy Meets Practice: Setting up a Philadelphia Association community household by Christina Moutsou.
Chapter from 'Therapeutic Communities for Psychosis', Routledge 2008
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
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
More articles and excerpts will be added in due course.
