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Shmuel Erlich

Shmuel Erlich is an Israeli psychoanalyst and organizational consultant who held the Sigmund Freud Chair at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1990.

born 1937Sigmund Freud Chair, Hebrew UniversityCo-founding the Nazareth ConferencesPsychoanalytic organizational consulting

Born: 11 July 1937, Frankfurt
Occupation: university teacher, psychoanalyst
Education: City College of New York, New York University

Shmuel Erlich was born in 1937 in Frankfurt

Shmuel Erlich was born in Frankfurt in 1937. At the end of 1938 his parents left Nazi Germany with him, and they reached Palestine early in 1939. He grew up in Tel Aviv.

He lived in the United States from 1954 to 1971. He earned a bachelor's degree in psychology at the City College of New York in 1959 and a doctorate in clinical psychology at New York University in 1965. He then did research at the Austen Riggs Center in Massachusetts on a scholarship from 1965 to 1967.

After returning to Israel he settled in Jerusalem and began teaching clinical psychology at the Hebrew University in 1972. He completed psychoanalytic training in 1983 and became a training analyst in 1987. He also set up and led a youth ward at Eitanim Psychiatric Hospital for 15 years.

He was president of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society from 1999 to 2002. He chaired the education committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association from 2005 to 2011. He co-founded the Nazareth Conferences and directed the first European conference of PCCA in Poland in 2012.

His work deals with psychoanalytic theory, identity, the effects of external trauma such as terror attacks, and organizational processes. He became professor emeritus in 2005 and received the Sigourney Award that year.