Solitude and Hope: Y'all Come Visit!

I made a brief reference to The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis in the previous discussion. There is a story of the great perseverence demonstrated by CCP that really needs to be told:

The history of the founding and process of growth for The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis (CCP) is an intriguing and courageous one, with its earlier beginnings traced to a time when the traditional psychoanalytic institutes refused to accept non-M.D. applicants for full clinical training.

CCP was the first free-standing psychoanalytic training institute for psychologists established outside of New York City and Los Angeles. It traces its beginnings to the late 1950s, when a small number of clinical psychologists (all psychotherapists) came together to form a study group for the purpose of deepening their understanding of all aspects of psychoanalysis. This small beginning eventually evolved into what became known as "The Bettelheim Study Group." This was essentially a clinical case seminar devoted to the psychoanalytic process, and it continued in that format until 1972.

The Study Group set a precedent for the Center, seeking out psychoanalytic educators of eminent national reputations, talent, and accomplishments: teachers such as Thomas French, Heinz Kohut, Michael Serota, Ernest Rappoport, and Edoardo Weiss.

With the emergence of the Division of Psychoanalysis within the American Psychological Association in the late 1970s, several psychologists from Chicago were invited to serve on the Steering Committee of the Division. One of the first orders of business at the Committee's meeting in New York City was to focus upon the urgency of meeting the organizational and educational needs of psychologists outside of New York City, Los Angeles, and Topeka (at that time, home of the renowned Menninger Clinic).

Those who attended this historic meeting from Chicago were inspired upon their return to do what they could to further the goals of Division 39. Spearheaded by these people, an organizational effort was begun to create a local chapter of Division 39, which came to be known as the Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (CAPP). The local chapter of the Division was thus born, dedicated to the development of psychoanalytic education and practice for psychologists.

A variety of programs within the local chapter soon engaged the energies and interests of various clinical psychologists, most of whom became involved in the Center, active as leaders and officers of the local chapter. Early in its existence, CAPP set up a yearly symposium in Chicago that attracted psychoanalytic educators and clinicians from across the country, such as Roy Schafer, Sidney Blatt, Martin Mayman, Rudolf Ekstein, Bruno Bettelheim, Hedda Bolgar and Sydney Smith for all-day workshops and symposia. These events brought out full-capacity, excited audiences and succeeded in sparking the interest of the mental health community in and around Chicago. Attendees included graduate students, social workers, psychiatrists and many clinical psychologists, both from the academic as well as the private practice communities.

In 1982, it became apparent that a more structured and sophisticated model of training was a necessity if clinical psychologists in Chicago were going to join the broader psychoanalytic community of psychologists, since it already had developed, with a reputation of considerable prestige, in New York City where the majority of Division 39 members were concentrated.

With the advice, consultation and guidance of noted psychologist-psychoanalysts from the Los Angeles Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (New York), The Derner Institute at Adelphi University and the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, a committee of CAPP members convened, taking the first steps in setting up a psychoanalytic institute which was eventually to be known as The Chicago Center for Psychoanalytic Psychology (CCPP).

The initial step was the establishment of a small study group consisting of a carefully selected group of CAPP members who met in a series of seminars presented as an introduction to classical readings in psychoanalysis. This was followed in 1983 and 1984 by a series of intensive weekend seminars held for this study group. In 1990 the name of the Center was changed to The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, a title more representative of the Center's function.

The CCP faculty has included nationally and internationally renowned psychoanalytic authors and educators. It is arguable that no other analytic training center or institute in the country has ever had a teaching faculty as esteemed as that of the small CCP program. The faculty members have been the leaders of the classical, post-classical and leading-edge, contemporary relational models of psychoanalysis. It is only fair to pay homage to these distinguished faculty members from across America, who came to offer their wisdom to help transform a small group of psychologist "renegades" into what is now one of the most intellectually intense, free-standing psychoanalytic training programs in the United States.

CCP Faculty Members: 1984-2004

Elizabeth Auchincloss, MD
Virginia Barry, MD
Alan Bass, PhD
Jessica Benjamin, PhD
Harris Berenbaum, PhD
Mark Berger, MD
Bruno Bettelheim, PhD
Dale Boesky, MD
Hedda Bolgar, PhD
Christopher Bollas, PhD
Jennifer Bonovitz, PhD
Maurice Burke, PhD
Fred Busch, PhD
Bertram Cohler, PhD
Jody Davies, PhD
Muriel Dimen, PhD
Darlene Ehrenberg, PhD
Gerald Fogel, MD
Rita Frankiel, PhD
Lucy Freund, PhD
Lawrence Freidman, MD
Paula Fuqua, MD
Glen Gabbard, MD
Lester Gable, MD
Robert Galatzer-Levy, MD
Benjamin Garber, MD
John Gedo, MD
Mark Gehrie, PhD
Merton Gill, MD
Peter Giovacchini, MD
Lorraine Goldberg, PhD
Jay Greenberg, PhD
William Greenstadt, PhD
Meyer Gunther, MD
Irwin Hirsch, PhD
Irwin Z. Hoffman, PhD
Michael Hoit, MD
Marvin Hyman, PhD
Lawrence Joseph, PhD
Donald Kaplan, PhD
Louise Kaplan, PhD
Jerome Kavka, MD
Oliver J.B. Kerner, PhD
Nathan Kravis, MD
Frank Lachmann, PhD
Eli Lane, MD
Ernest Lawrence, PhD
Jonathan Lear, PhD
Robert Leider, MD
Norman Litowitz, MD
Nell Logan, PhD
J. Gordon Maguire, MD
Martin Mayman, PhD
Joyce McDougall, EdD
Stephen Mitchell, PhD
George Moraitis, MD
Dale Moyer, PhD
Kenneth Newman, MD
Donna Orange, PsyD
Edward Owen, MD
Michael Parsons
Fred Pine, PhD
Warren Poland, MD
Joanne Powers, PhD
Ellie Ragland, PhD
Leo Rangell, MD
Moss Rawn, PhD
Owen Renik, MD
Barbara Rocah, MD
Bernard Rubin, MD
Roy Schafer, PhD
Howard Shevrin, PhD
Norma Simon, EdD
Vivian Skolnick, PhD
Ignes Sodre
Donnel Stern, PhD
Nathan Stockhammer, PhD
Harvey Strauss, MD
Frank Summers, PhD
Johanna Tabin, PhD
Richard Telingator, MD
Arnold Tobin, MD
Marian Tolpin, MD
Phyllis Tyson, PhD
Judith Vida, PhD
Jerome Winer, MD
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, PhD