Our History
The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center had its beginning in 1945 with several notable members of the psychoanalysis field:
1945
After the Second World War, Dr. Douglas Bond (1911-1976) Chair of the Department of Psychiatry of Western Reserve University School of Medicine contacted Anna Freud (1895-1982) to help him start a psychoanalytic training program in Cleveland. She responded by calling upon her childhood friend, Dr. Anny Katan (1898-1992) and her husband, Dr. Maurits Katan (1897-1977), to help.
1946
The Katans moved to Cleveland, starting relationships with other American psychoanalytic organizations – first Detroit, and later, Philadelphia – to facilitate the training of Cleveland psychoanalysts. In that same year they established the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Society, a membership-based organization to promote psychoanalysis.
1960
The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute was established as part of the Department of Psychiatry at Western Reserve University.
1967
The Institute established itself as a free-standing training center.
2002
The Society and Center merged their missions to form the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center.
Today
The Center sustains the mission of this distinguished history, to promote psychoanalysis and train clinicians from multiple and diverse professions and populations in the practice of Freud’s “talking cure.”