Norman Maclean Faculty Award

Marvin Zonis

Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Chicago Booth

Marvin Zonis is regarded as a true leader who inspires students and colleagues alike to think out of their comfort zones and not follow consensus as a safer option. He has taught and inspired generations of students in the College, the Department of Political Science, the Committee on International Relations, the Committee on Human Development and at ChicagoBooth. He was the first professor at Chicago Booth to teach a course on the effects of digital technologies on global business, and students credit his “Politics in Interdependent Economies” course as one of the most salient ways to understanding today’s emerging markets. A leading authority on the Middle East and former director of the University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Zonis has spent the last 50 years studying the volatile mix of Islam, terrorism, and the Middle East. He also consults to corporations and professional asset management firms throughout the world, helping them identify, assess, and manage their political risks in the changing global environment. Zonis is credited by his students for teaching them how to think, not what to think. As one student puts it, “he demonstrates the nexus between rational, analytic approaches and emotional, personality-driven actions and impact.” More important, Zonis is seen by his students as a philosopher friend who leaves people entertained, enlightened and inspired after every encounter.

2013 Alumni Awards Ceremony

The 72nd annual Alumni Awards Ceremony will take place on Saturday, June 8, 2013, at Rockefeller Chapel.

Visit the Alumni Weekend website to register.

The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis is honored to note the birthdays this week of two of its most influential forebears, Heinz Kohut and Sigmund Freud. Heinz Kohut was born in Vienna on May 3, 1913 and made his way to Chicago in 1940, where he joined the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He practised there for the rest of his career, distinguishing himself most especially for his authorship and elaboration of Self Psychology, a more empathic school of analytical thought that focused on the vicissitudes and relationships of the self.

Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856, and continues to be celebrated to this day as the founder of psychoanalysis. His lifelong study of the nature and development of the mind, and of the ways a person's mind could be interpreted through analysis, produced a vast range of concepts and methods still in professional psychotherapeutic use, and still frequently debated, today.

We at the Institute for Psychoanalysis are proud to be a part of the heritage of these two luminaries. For more information about their legacy here at the Institute, please give us a call at (312) 922-7474, email us at admin@chicagoanalysis.org, or stop by any time.