Barr Harris Center Helps Grieving Children

University of Illinois at Chicago Psychiatry Professor Jerome A. Winer, MD, also directs the Institute for Psychoanalysis, in Chicago. Dr. Winer's leadership has helped to secure more than $100,000 in funding for the Barr-Harris Children's Grief Center. The center provides therapeutic services including diagnostic evaluations, crisis intervention, and short and long-term psychotherapy to children who have experienced loss through the death of a loved one, divorce and/or abandonment.

Since its inception, the Barr-Harris Children's Grief Center has treated more than 1,000 children and their families. No child is turned away because of inability to pay.

In addition to the Barr-Harris Children's Grief Center, the Institute for Psychoanalysis offers an array of educational and clinical services for the general public and mental health professionals, including the Adult and Child Psychoanalytic Training Program, the Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program and the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program. Each program provides treatment at modest cost.

Recently, Dr. Winer and a committee of Institute for Psychoanalysis staff and community leaders produced a national Conference on Youth and Violence. The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust was the lead sponsor and the University of Illinois at Chicago Psychiatry Department was one of the co-sponsors.

Currently, Dr. Winer is on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis. He is also Chair of the Committee on Ethics of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and a Fellow of the Board on Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In May, Dr. Winer became President-elect of the American College of Psychoanalysts.