Tim Sawyier LCPC is a psychoanalyst in private practice, working with adults in his downtown Chicago office. He was appointed to the Institute’s faculty in 2023 following his graduation from CPI’s Psychoanalytic Education Program, in which he now teaches Freud and advanced theory courses. Tim is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA), and his writing has appeared in the JAPA Review of Books and American Imago. He attended graduate school at the University of Chicago (History) and the Institute for Clinical Social Work (Counseling), following a career as an orchestral oboist, for which he studied at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music. Tim is also a longtime contributor to the Chicago Classical Review.
