H. Shmuel ErlichH. Shmuel Erlich is a practicing psychoanalyst as well as a Group Relations Consultant and a consultant to organizations, both psychoanalytic and others. He was born in Germany in 1937, raised in Israel, educated in the USA, and returned to Israel in1971. From that time until his retirement in 2005 he was on the academic staff of the Psychology Department of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he taught in the graduate Clinical Psychology Program. From 1990 until 2005 he held the Sigmund Freud Chair in Psychoanalysis, and was Director of the Freud Center of Psychoanalytic Study and Research. Beside his academic career, he was Chief Psychologist at Eitanim Psychiatric Hospital where he founded and directed for fifteen years an inpatient adolescent service. A graduate of the Israel Psychoanalytic Institute (1983), he held various positions in the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, notably those of President and Chair of the Education Committee. Since 2000 he has been active in the international psychoanalytic movement (IPA), where he served two terms as elected Board Representative from Europe, Chair of the IPA Education Committee, and is currently Chair of the IPA Education & Oversight Committee. He was reelected to the IPA Board in 2011. In the area of Group Relations, he co-founded (1985) the Israel Association for the Study of Group and Organizational Processes (OFEK). Read More Read Less