The Philadelphia Association has over thirty years experience of working with community-based therapeutic communities. Our houses are places where people with a range of emotional difficulties and diagnoses can live together with others in a thoughtful way. The ethos of the communities revolves around working towards acknowledging and taking responsibility for the way we contribute to the difficulties we experience with others and the world.
Residents cook and clean for themselves.
They have their own bedrooms, and access to common living rooms, kitchens, dining rooms and gardens. The houses have at least three community meetings a week, which house therapists attend. These meetings provide a place where issues concerning the residents can be discussed within an analytic framework. Each person living in the houses is ordinarily expected to also enter into individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy. However, it is our experience that individuals with a current addiction to drugs or alcohol, or a history of violence are not usually suitable.