Providing service to the community is a part of the professional identity of most psychoanalysts. The Psychoanalytic Center takes upon itself the responsibility for developing programs which are of service to the community, either in the form of direct clinical services or through consultation or education.
Current programs are listed below:
The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia gives you access to an extensive network of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists through the Consultation and Referral Service and the Find A Therapist directory on the website. The Consultation and Referral Service offers evaluation and referral services by the members of the Center, who are extensively trained and highly skilled psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers. All of our members have completed or are pursuing rigorous post-graduate training as psychoanalysts or psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists. Treatment is provided in the private offices of our members, throughout the Delaware Valley. Services are provided for adults, adolescents and children with a wide range of difficulties, such as depression, anxiety, school failure, relationship problems or life adjustment. A sliding scale is available on request.
To begin a consultation, please use the Find-A-Therapist link on the website, or call 215-235-2345. The Director will call you for a brief phone interview to help match you to one of our clinicians. The highest standards of confidentiality and privacy are maintained.
The Parent-Child Center offers a variety of services for families, parents, and children and for professionals who work with families or children. A Pre-School and Day Care Consultation Program offers professional consultation to a number of pre-schools and day care centers, as well as child advocacy and welfare workers, in the greater Philadelphia area. Parenting Education projects include Parent-Child groups, in which infants or toddlers play while the mothers talk with professionals about the children’s development, and a Violence Prevention program, in which parent-child groups and staff consultations are provided to programs developed to intervene with high-risk families.
This program has been designed so that educators and psychoanalytic clinicians can come together to discuss the ways in which emotional problems interfere with learning in city schools.
This affiliated organization was developed in order to bring together psychoanalytic clinicians and other professionals (such as child-care workers, educators, lawyers and judges, medical doctors) with a common interest in exchanging ideas about psychoanalysis in order to collaborate in developing programs of benefit to the community. An example is the development of an annual Child-Care Colloquium, at which a noted psychoanalytic speaker addresses issues relevant to child-care workers for their continuing education.
The focus of the Student Affiliate Committee is to spark an interest in psychoanalysis among undergraduate and graduate students. We welcome students from all disciplines (psychology, social work, literature, etc.) and offer access to modern analytic theory through: