CCP has become a vital hub for the broader psychoanalytic community in Chicago,
sponsoring public lecture series, study groups, and a thriving fellowship program offered to clinicians and graduate students.
Announcements 2025 Annual Maurice Burke Paper Prize WinnersCCP is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Annual Maurice Burke Paper Prize: Manshreya Grover, Free Association Under Surveillance: The Psychic Life of Anticipatory Coherence (General Public) Renee Dickerson, The Right to Speak, the Right to Be (CCP Community) Kenji Kuramitsu, Kill the Native: Zionism as Identification with the Aggressor and the Gaza Genocide ( Early career winner). CCP also congratulates those entrants who were shortlisted for the MOB Prize: Handan Sureyya Aysun, Where Do the Analytic and the Political Meet? Michael O'Loughlin, Theorizing an Activist, Social Justice–Oriented, Emancipatory, and Collective Psychoanalysis We thank all who contributed to the dialogue around the prize’s central theme. Little Hysterics -- The CCP PodcastWe are proud to have our very own Austin McCann hosting Little Hysterics, a podcast where we interview practitioners and thinkers focused on the contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis in our culture. You can subscribe here or listen anywhere you get your podcasts.
A Note on the New Year“The spectacle is appalling” – Walt Whitman, American Vistas, 1871 So, we’re doing this again. Again, but worse this year. There might be little point in listing the daily bombardment of very real atrocities our government proudly justifies as part of the fantasied white hyper-masculine America being cosplayed from the top down. An uplifting message keeps slipping past me and I can measure my own lack of optimism by the amount of losing Powerball tickets I’ve used for bookmarks in 2025... Racial Equity Peer GroupsFor 2025 – 2026, the project of Building Racial Equity at CCP will continue by establishing Racial Equity Peer Groups for all interested members to join. These peer groups will be the medium through which we’ll continue to meet and learn about race and racism in psychoanalytic practice, building a shared understanding and a shared sense of community. These groups fulfill the Holmes report’s recommendation to ““establish vibrant working groups …while fostering a strong matrix of interpersonal connections.“ A Note from the CCP PresidentEarlier this year Elon Musk proclaimed to millions of Joe Rogan fans, “The fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy.” This is where we live--in a culture that openly rewards sociopathy and demands empathy remain within the boundaries of a homogenous crowd to not slow down capitalism... Diversity & Social Justice InitiativeThe Diversity and Social Justice Initiative aims to create space within the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis to reconsider our psychoanalytic understandings of prejudice, discrimination and structural injustice in order to address the inequities in psychoanalytic practice and training programs, both our own and in general. To inaugurate this initiative, we propose launching a multi-year program for the entire CCP membership, so that we can learn, discuss, and implement change together. The mission statement we will create together will be an evolving document addressing aspects of social inequities in the light of which organizational and clinical practice and theory should be re-examined. The Holmes Commission Report provides an initial blueprint that can both provide a template for addressing endemic racism and guide inquiry into other structural barriers to care, theory-building and training in psychoanalysis... | 2025-2026 Events
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