Individuals find and relive their histories of object relations in new social settings. Any social group, in turn, enlists individuals into roles that serve the purposes of others in the group. Full understanding of a person requires an understanding of this interplay between personal history and social context, which reveals new dimensions to problems that at first appear intrapsychic, but that an individual perspective alone cannot solve. In this paper I offer examples from a psychoanalytic therapeutic community designed with the intention of fostering self-knowledge at the collective as well as the individual level. Such a culture encourages individuals to examine the personal-social interface as it manifests in the present day. In a treatment environment, this examination can reveal the social roots of psychopathology to foster change. As a social microcosm, such an environment illuminates the unconscious dynamics present in any individual's encounter with any organization.