Introduction

 

One of the things that haunts us all about our all too human condition is how much pain we have to suffer in the ordinary conduct of our lives. Who do we turn to when we are in such despair that we don’t know where to turn? Who can we trust? The practitioners at the Free Association Clinic believe that all of us suffer from occasional feelings of fear, alienation, depression, confusion. Some of us suffer from these symptoms more than others, but we are all otherwise more or less the same human beings, with the same needs and aspirations. After a brief consultation we will connect you to someone you can talk to and who you can trust to help you with your deepest emotional and existential concerns. We are here to help you get to know yourself intimately, and to help you bring the passion that has been missing back into your life . . . or perhaps, for the very first time?

For more than thirty years Free Association Clinic has helped people like you get to the bottom of why their anxieties seem so intractable and relentless. We work with the full spectrum of distress and consternation that inspires many of you to seek psychotherapy. Our approach is existential, which is perhaps the most penetrating yet personal approach to psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

We also work with borderline and psychotic symptoms, seeking a way to help you to get on with your life and to determine why a life of love and wonder has been so elusive.

Free Association Clinic For Existential Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis is informed by psychoanalytic and exsistential philosophical perspectives on the human condition and how to address the suffering that we encounter in our lives.

Related Programs

The New School for Existential Psychoanalysis is a full psychoanalytic training program for practicing therapists. https://freeassociation.us/

R.D. Laing Symposium is an annual meeting held each year in Big Sur, CA dedicated to exploring a variety of topics in philosophy and psychoanalysis. http://www.rdlaingsymposium.com/

Gnosis Retreat Center is a project whose aim is to develop a house in the Bay Area for those experiencing extreme states. https://gnosisretreatcenter.org/

Our Training Program

The Free Association Clinic offers a training program for therapists accruing hours towards licensure in California. Originally initiated in 1988, our training program is the only psychoanalytic salon in the U.S. that features a synthesis of existential philosophy and psychoanalysis. Our faculty and supervisors are accomplished authors and clinicians known the world over. Trainees also benefit from a thriving and diverse community of therapists from around the world by interfacing with our more advanced form of training, The New School for Existential Psychoanalysis.