The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis is a center for
psychoanalytic research, training, and education that is located on
Michigan Avenue in
downtown Chicago. The institute provides professional training in the theory and practice of
psychoanalysis and
psychotherapy. It was founded in 1932 by
Franz Alexander, a pioneer in psychosomatic medicine at the
Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, who have moved to Chicago at the invitation of
Robert Maynard Hutchins, then president of the
University of Chicago. Notable
psychoanalysts that have been associated with the institute include
Karl Menninger,
Karen Horney,
Thomas Szasz, Therese Benedek,
Hedda Bolgar,
Roy Grinker, Maxwell Gitelson, Louis Shapiro,
Heinz Kohut,
Arnold Goldberg,
Jerome Kavka, and Michael Franz Basch.