Award for Excellence in Journalism

Sponsoring Committee

Committee on Public Information

Purpose

The Award for Excellence in Journalism recognizes professional reporting of outstanding merit that contributes in an exceptional way to the public understanding of psychoanalytic and psychological principles and phenomena.

The $1,000 award is broadly conceived. Nominated work need not be specifically about psychoanalysis or psychotherapy per se. And, nominated work may critique or question psychoanalysis as long as it advances understanding of human relationships and/or the life of the mind.

The Award is juried by a panel of professional journalists as well as by psychoanalysts.

Eligibility Criteria

Any person, including authors, may submit material. To be eligible, work must have been written in English, intended for the layperson, and must have been first published between July 1 and June 30 for decision the following October. The deadline for submissions is September 1.

Contact Person

 Dottie Jeffries, djeffries@apsa.org

Children and Family Community Service Award

Sponsoring Committee

Council Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (COCAP)

Purpose

To acknowledge community-based programs which utilize child analytic principles.

Eligibility Criteria

The program must provide direct services to children and families that support the emotional and social development of children. The program must also utilize psychoanalytic developmental principles to orient the direct services, although other viewpoints may be integrated. And the program utilize child psychoanalysts in a significant way as part of its delivery of services and have established themselves as substantial community resources with general acceptance by the community at large.

Applications Accepted

 Applications are due by December 1 of each year.

When Presented

January Meeting of Members

Contact Person

Community Clinic Award

Sponsoring Committee

Community Clinic Committee

Purpose

To honor a community clinic for its exemplary work.

Contact Person

David I. Falk, Chair

CORST Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture

Sponsoring Committee

Committee on Research and Special Training (CORST)

Purpose

A $1,000 award for the best essay on psychoanalytically informed research in the biobehavioral sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.  Award winning essay is presented at the January meeting and is reviewed for publication by JAPA.

Eligibility Criteria

Essay can be no longer than 30 pages in length and should neither have been published nor submitted for publication. 

Applications Accepted

 Entries are due by September 1.

Contact Persons

Vera Camden
Dottie Jeffries

JAPA Prizes

Sponsoring Committee

JAPA Editorial Board

Purpose

A $1,000 prize is for the best paper published in the Journal during the previous year.

Contact Person

Steven Levy, JAPA  Editor

National Psychoanalytic Woman Scholar

Sponsoring Committee

National Woman Psychoanalytic Scholar Committee (NWPS)

Purpose

To promote dialogue and shared learning among women in psychoanalysis on women's issues. The selected scholar is provided funds to visit candidate and study groups as well as a small honorarium.

Eligibility Criteria

The proposed scholar must be a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, in good standing.

Applications Accepted

Nominations can be made by any member of the American.

Contact Person

Presenter

Chair of the NWPS Committee

Research Poster Session Award

Sponsoring Committee

Committee on Scientific Activities, Poster Sessions and Research Symposia Subcommittee, Poster Subsection

Purpose

Established in 2004, this $250 award is for an especially noteworthy poster presentation judged on the basis of substantive significance and innovation as well as the quality of the presentation.

Eligibility Criteria

Poster session research papers with conceptual and/or empirical relevance to psychoanalytic theory, technique, aspects of practice, and effectiveness of psychoanalysis.  Of special interest is interdisciplinary scholarship addressing research questions in 'neighboring field' – including developmental and social psychology, family psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, sociology, literary criticism, as well as historical studies, history of ideas and art history.

Contact Persons

Procedure

Call for submissions appears in the final program book for the Winter meeting with a deadline of the following September.  Decision is made during the Winter meeting and the prize check along with a letter is mailed after the meeting.

Ralph E. Roughton Paper Award

Sponsoring Committee

Committee on Gay & Lesbian Issues

Purpose/Description of Prize

In honor of the founding Chairperson of the Committee on Gay and Lesbian Issues (formerly known as the Committee on Issues of Homosexuality), the Ralph Roughton Paper Award was established in 1998 to give formal recognition for outstanding contributions of the psychoanalytic understanding of gay men and lesbians. 

The  $350 award is intended to encourage analysts, candidates and other clinicians to address gay and lesbian issues in their clinical and scientific endeavors, and to increase sensitivity and understanding within the American Psychoanalytic Association and its accredited training institutes.

Eligibility Criteria

Selected from papers recently published on gay or lesbian issues in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association or presented at the Association's Winter or Annual Meetings, and papers published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis or presented at the Congress of the  International Psychoanalytical Association.

Contact Person

Ethan Grumbach, LCSW, Chair

Scientific Paper Prize

Sponsoring Committee

Joint Committee on Scientific Activities - Subcommittee on Science Paper Prizes

Purpose

A $500 award for the best published research paper. 

Eligibility Criteria

All papers by North American authors (APsaA & non-APsaA members) that were published or accepted for publication by a peer-reviewed journal after January 1, 2001 (this is the date for the first round).  Judges will review the major psychoanalytic journals to identify papers for consideration and applicants are invited to submit as well.

Contact Person

Procedure

Deadline for submission is October 1.  Five copies of the paper and a cover letter are submitted to the Chair of the Subcommittee on Science Paper Prizes.