Erika Schmidt, MSW*

Former Vice Chair

In Memorium

Erika Schmidt, M.S.W., is the President of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, a Child Analyst and Adult Training and Supervising Analyst on its faculty, and a faculty member at the Institute for Clinical Social Work. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and was the founder of the Chicago chapter of A Home Within. She has worked in child welfare, schools and a university counseling service and has published on topics including child therapy and analysis, psychoanalytic education and the history of psychoanalysis. She has a private practice of child and adult psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.