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CHICAGO PSYCHOANLYTIC INSTITUTE1932-2022A 90th YEAR CELEBRATION 90 years ago, the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis opened its doors under the directorship of Franz Alexander.  Alexander was the first graduate of the Berlin Institute, had been recognized for his creative scholarship, was acquainted with Freud and brought the prestige of the emerging discipline of psychoanalysis to Chicago. …

The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute would once again like to thank all who participated in this year’s benefit. For those who were unable to attend, the video of the event can be found here.

National Children’s Grief Awareness Month Writer and Social Worker Miranda Featherstone offers a poignant reminder about the difficulty and importance of talking to children about their experience of grief as we honor National Children’s Grief Awareness Month this November. Featherstone writes, and we agree, “There is nothing straightforward about love whose object has been removed.”…

Thursday, November 11th, the Institute partnered with PsiAN to present A Conversation with Hannah Zeavin PhD. Dr. Zeavin discused her book The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy, with Dr. Linda Michaels. To view the program, CLICK HERE The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is a transnational social history of therapies deployed beyond the classic…

In July, Institute Faculty Virginia Barry MD met up with Professor Mark Solms PhD, Director of Neuropsychology at the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cape Town. Dr Solms is a neuropsychoanalyst who has spent his career exploring topics with profound relevance for psychoanalysts, including topics of emotion, consciousness, dreaming and more. He is an…

On May 25th, 2020 the Institute launched the Frontline Responders program, offering pro bono teletherapy mental health care to all frontline workers in Illinois.

Dear Institute Community, The McLean Library’s Weeding Sale Catalog is up to 24 pages now, with multiple volumes by many of the leading authors in the psychoanalytic field.   Click here to download a copy of the catalog.   The sale includes hundreds of volumes, including those by the following authors:   Anna Freud   Sigmund Freud Peter Giovacchini…

Congratulations to Institute partners Marcia Dobson and John Riker! This husband and wife team teach at Colorado College, where they created a minor in psychoanalysis in 2002. The two have also visited the Institute annually every year since 2007 to teach undergraduates at the college some of the basic principles of psychoanalysis, in a course…