The Philadelphia Association is a UK

United Kingdom

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  "charity concerned with the understanding and relief of mental suffering." It was founded in 1965 by the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst R. D. Laing along with Joseph Berke

Joseph Berke

-Early years:He studied at Columbia College of Columbia University and graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He moved to London in 1965 where Berke worked with R. D...

, Leon Redler

Leon Redler

Leon Redler is a doctor of medicine, a psychiatrist, a psychotherapist, and teacher of the Alexander Technique.He was a part of the experiment in radical psychiatry at Kingsley Hall between 1965 and 1970, along with other members of the Philadelphia Association including R. D...

, Clancy Sigal

Clancy Sigal

Clancy Sigal is an American novelist and screenwriter born in Chicago. He was a part of the Philadelphia Association experiment with R. D. Laing at Kingsley Hall. He was one of several co-writers of the screenplay for the 2002 Salma Hayek film Frida, based on the book Frida: A Biography of Frida...

, Aaron Esterson

Aaron Esterson

Aaron Esterson was a British psychiatrist, practising in Glasgow.He was one of the founders of the Philadelphia Association along with R. D. Laing- Bibliography:...

, Joan Cunnold, David Cooper

David Cooper (psychiatrist)

David Graham Cooper was a British psychiatrist, theorist and leader in the anti-psychiatry movement....

 and Sid Briskin.

The first of a number of community houses was founded at Kingsley Hall

Kingsley Hall

Kingsley Hall is a community centre in the East End of London. It dates back to the work of Doris Lester and Muriel Lester, who had a nursery school in nearby Bruce Road. Their brother, Kingsley Lester, died aged 26 in 1914, leaving money for work in the local area for "educational, social and...

and existed from 1965 to 1970.