The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia was founded in July 2001, comprised of two psychoanalytic organizations, each with a long and rich history. The Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Society was founded in 1937 and the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis in 1947. The home of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia is the historic Rockland Mansion (1810) in Philadelphia’s East Fairmount Park.
The Institute of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia is an approved training institute of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
The Institute has three core objectives: to further the development of psychoanalysis based on the discoveries and insights of Sigmund Freud, to advance psychoanalytic education and research, and to offer a contemporary education with increased clinical depth and enrichment in psychoanalytic theory and practice in accord with the training standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association. The curriculum integrates a Modern Classical perspective on psychoanalytic theory with the more recent contributions of Self Psychology, Trauma Theory, and Relational Theory. The structure of the education is predicated on the concept of clinical immersion: candidates are urged to coordinate the timing of their personal analysis, didactic instruction, and supervised clinical experiences, in order to facilitate the synergistic integration of the complex body of knowledge and experience which represents contemporary psychoanalysis.