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Norman Elrod, who died on July 1, 2002, was the founder and director of the Institut für Psychoanalyse (IfP), which has been a member of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) since 1998. The IfP was accepted for membership in the IFPS after the presentation of a workshop on Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List in Athens, Greece in 1996. Elrod was an outstanding psychoanalyst, who was especially known for his publications on the psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic patients and on the history of psychoanalysis.
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA in 1928 and studied Psychology and Philosophy in California, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950. Afterwards, he traveled to Switzerland to study Psychology, Philosophy, General History of Religion, and Therapeutic Pedagogy at the University of Zurich. Starting in 1954, he worked as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist under Manfred Bleuler at the Burghölzli, Zurich Psychiatric University Hospital, where he introduced psychoanalytic group therapy with schizophrenic patients. His dissertation, which reported on his experience with group and individual psychotherapy with chronically schizophrenic patients, appeared in 1957 under the title “Zur Phänomenologie der Besserung in der Psychotherapie” (On the phenomenology of improvement in psychotherapy) and received much attention.