Thank you for your generous donation to The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute!
The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and its educational legacy owe much to generous contributors including individuals, foundations, family funds and corporations around the world. This generous support sustains the Institute’s innovative education programs, provides clinical services through the Treatment Center, offers dynamic continuing education opportunities and sustains public access to its significant physical and digital resources through its McLean Library. Through these activities the Institute manifests its mission to transform the lives of individuals, families and communities using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Ways to Give
All contributions made within the guidelines of our gift acceptance policies are welcome and appreciated. The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute is a non-profit 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization and contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowable by the law. EIN 36-1263210
Empowering Learning & Empowering Healing
It is the mission of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute to transform the lives of individuals, families and communities using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Since its founding in 1932, the Institute has contributed to the field of psychoanalysis through education, scholarship and treatment. Psychoanalysis provides an explanation of human behavior, human desires and how we become who we are. What we learn about ourselves can positively shape and influence all that occurs around us. When one person achieves transformative change, it changes those around them too. All of this contributes to the Institute’s mission of transforming the lives of individuals, families and communities using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
To become a member of the Institute community that makes transformative change possible, you can make a donation, become a board member, apply for education programming or tell us your story. We appreciate donations of any size and welcome all inquiries.
For past years’ financials and other program information please see the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute profile on Guidestar.
We appreciate and welcome all contributions within the guidelines of our gift acceptance policies. The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute is a non-profit 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization, and your gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowable by the law. Donations can be made online here.
The Franz Alexander Society
The Franz Alexander Legacy Society honors individuals who have included the Institute in their will, trust or other charitable planned gift. Members of the Franz Alexander Legacy Society share our vision of the future and our determination to forward the mission established by Franz Alexander in founding the Institute: to better understand human beings and help them live better lives. As of 2021, members include:
- S. Cody Engle
- Robert Fajardo
- Linda I. Garrity Trust
- Paul, Joni and Campbell Holinger
- Eva Lichtenberg
- Judith Rhinestine
You can read the stories of some of our society members here.
Planned gifts make up a significant number of the contributions the Institute needs to sustain life-changing work. A bequest may be made through a will or trust, or you can name the Institute as a beneficiary of a bank account, IRA account, life insurance policy, company retirement plan, pension, or other instrument. Your financial advisor or attorney can offer advice on your specific situation. If you have already provided for the Institute in your will or trust, please inform the Development Office so that Institute staff can thank you and, if needed, help you create a personally meaningful giving opportunity.
The Director of Development may be reached by phone at (312) 897-1424 or email at development@chicagoanalysis.org
Below, are the most common kinds of bequests with sample language for naming The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute as a beneficiary. You may also change your beneficiaries at any time, should your circumstances change.
The annual benefit is the single most important fundraising event to support general operations of our work, and in particular, the education programs for which the Institute has been known since 1932. The proceeds from the benefit and the extraordinary gift of in-kind time from our renowned faculty are crucial to the sustainability and future growth of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute.
On May 4, 2022 6:00 pm CDT, the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute will host their Annual Benefit to honor those who have led the Institute through the past 90 years. This year’s Benefit will be held virtually. Please join us in this special celebration!
Featured Speaker
Paul Durica PHD, MFA
Paul Durica will narrate the story of the Institute in the context of the greater Chicago community. Paul is the Director of Exhibitions at the Newberry Library. For seven years he ran a series of free, interactive talks, walks and reenactments dealing with Chicago history that has received local and national media attention. He is a frequent contributor to WBEZ’s Curious City and coeditor with Bill Savage of Chicago by Day and Night: A Pleasure Seeker’s Guide to the Paris of America, a reissue of an 1893 guide to the city. Paul has a PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan.
Sponsorship Opportunities
In order to get your name listed on the sponsorship slide for the evening of the Benefit please secure your commitment by April 22, 2022. Please note that if you miss this deadline you will still receive all of the other deliverables included in your sponsorship.
Board of Trustees FY 2021-22
- Erika Schmidt
President (ex officio) - David Schiffman
Chairman - Jacques Gourguechon
Vice Chair - Thomas Homburger
Treasurer - Jesse Viner
Secretary - Wendy Selene
Institute Dean (ex officio)
- Thomas F. Barrett
- Linda Emanuel
- Steven Flagel
- Mario Garcia
- Robert Graham
- Charles Hicks
- Harold Hirshman
- Edward Kaufman
- Michael Kelleher
- Joan Laser
- Eva Lichtenberg
- Joanne Marengo
- Martha Nussbaum
- Harolyn Lee Pappadis
- Judith Rhinestine
- Christopher Rigling
- Donna Shaft
- Rita Sussman
- Brian Tucker
- Leo Weinstein
Life Trustees
- Charles F. Davis, III
- Estelle Loeb
- George Mann
- Pearl Rieger
- Nancy H. Weil
- Bernice Weissbourd
About the Institute
The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute applies history, theory, knowledge, practice and research to offer the highest standard of psychoanalytic training for psychoanalysts and all mental health professionals through accessible educational programs, professional supervision, and continuing education programs. The Institute’s Treatment Center provides clinical services to adults, adolescents and children, with fees adjusted to income, making psychoanalytically-informed therapy more widely available.
Human beings and being human are at the core of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute’s mission. The Institute is dedicated to advancing knowledge of human beings—their feelings, thoughts and behavior—and to improving people’s lives.