Join the Ernest Becker Foundation for a discussion with the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis on the overlap between Becker's ideas and psychotherapy.

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Panelists:
Claude Barbre, M.S., M.Div., Ph.D., L.P., Distinguished Full Professor, The Chicago School of
Professional Psychology. Dr. Barbre is a CourseLead Coordinator of the Psychodynamics Orientation, and lead faculty in the Child and Adolescent Studies. He is also a Board Member and Training Supervisor at The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis (CCP). A teacher and psychotherapist for nearly 40 years, Dr. Barbre served for 12 years as Executive Director of The Harlem Family Institute, NY. Author of prizewinning articles, books, and poetry, Dr. Barbre is a fivetime recipient of the international Gradiva Award “for outstanding contributions to psychoanalysis and the arts.” In 2022, Dr. Barbre received the Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator Award, presented by the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education, and the Joanna K. Tabin Award for Exceptional Public Service (CCP). He is currently completing a book entitled, Soul Diver: Otto Rank’s Psychology of Religion. He is in private practice in Chicago, IL. Contact: [email protected]

Sheldon Solomon, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at Skidmore College. Dr. Solomon's research on Terror Management Theory – which examines the effects of the uniquely human awareness of death on behavior – along with that of Jeff Greenberg (at the University of Arizona) and Tom Pyszczynski (at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) has been supported by the National Science Foundation and Ernest Becker Foundation, and was featured in the award winning documentary film Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality. He is coauthor of In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror and The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life. Sheldon is an American Psychological Society Fellow, and a recipient of an American Psychological Association Presidential Citation (2007), a Lifetime Career Award by the International Society for Self and Identity (2009), the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs Annual Faculty Award (2011), the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Career Contribution Award (2021), and the International Society for the Science of Existential Psychology Career Contributions Award (2022).

Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D., cofounder/current president of the psychotherapy training center the ExistentialHumanistic Institute; adjunct faculty, Saybrook University. He . Dr. Schneider is a leading spokesperson for existentialhumanistic and existentialintegrative psychology. He is also a current candidate for presidentelect of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Schneider is the author of 13 books, virtually all inspired by Becker, including The Paradoxical Self, ExistentialIntegrative Psychotherapy, ExistentialHumanistic Therapy, Awakening to Awe, The Spirituality of Awe, The Polarized Mind, The Depolarizing of America: A Guidebook for Social Healing, and his lastest work (February 1, 2023) LifeEnhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World. Dr. Schneider is also a longtime member of the Ernest Becker Foundation, for which he has given several keynote talks, and he was a close associate of the EBF’s founder Neil Elgee. Dr. Schneider’s current focus, very much in keeping with Terror Management Theory, is on the existential bases of as well as alternatives to polarized states of being.