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Why Support the Chicago Institute?

Although views regarding mental health and emotional well-being continue to evolve and change over time, one thing remains true about psychoanalysis—its commitment to helping people live fuller, richer lives.

As a leader in education, treatment, and community service, the Chicago Institute has a 75-year history of promoting the values of psychoanalysis, helping people to examine questions that are central to the human experience: Who am I? How did I become this way? What can I do to realize my full potential? Through its work, the Institute demonstrates the critical role that psychoanalysis plays in helping individuals achieve personal benefits that are powerful and far-reaching: greater self-awareness, improved relationships, increased productivity, new-found creative potential, and the ability to prevent the past from interfering with the present and future.

In addition to providing the highest professional training in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, the Institute takes great pride in offering mental health professionals special training in child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapy so that they may better serve the communities in which they practice. The Institute is also proud to be the home of the Barr-Harris Children's Grief Center, which provides low-fee therapy to children and families who have suffered the traumatic loss of a parent or other significant loved one. At Barr-Harris, there is no waiting list, and no family is ever turned away, regardless of its ability to pay.

If you would like to make a tax-deductible, charitable donation to the Chicago Institute, please call the Director of Development, Martin Laub, Ph.D., at (312) 922.6954. All gifts, regardless of size, are greatly appreciated and will have a direct impact on the quality of the programs and services that the Institute offers. In short, your gift can and will make a difference to the many children, adults, and families whose lives can be changed by the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.