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Award for Excellence in Journalism |
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Sponsoring Committee |
Committee on Public Information |
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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.
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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 7. |
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Contact Person |
Dottie Jeffries, djeffries@apsa.org |
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Children and Family Community Service Award |
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Sponsoring Committee |
Council Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (COCAP) |
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Purpose |
To acknowledge community-based programs which utilize child analytic principles. |
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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. |
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Applications Accepted |
Applications are due by December 1 of each year. |
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When Presented |
January Meeting of Members |
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Contact Person |
Kerry Kelly Novick, Chair
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Community Clinic Award |
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Sponsoring Committee |
Community Clinic Committee |
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Purpose |
To honor a community clinic for its exemplary work. |
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Contact Person |
David I. Falk, Chair |
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CORST Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture |
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Sponsoring Committee |
Committee on Research and Special Training (CORST) |
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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. |
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Eligibility Criteria |
Essay can be no longer than 30 pages in length and should neither have been published nor submitted for publication. |
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Applications Accepted |
Entries are due by September 1. |
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Contact Persons |
Lewis Kirshner,M.D., Chair
Dottie Jeffries |
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JAPA Prizes |
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Sponsoring Committee |
JAPA Editorial Board |
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Purpose |
A $1,000 prize is for the best paper published in the Journal during the previous year. |
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Contact Person |
Steven Levy, JAPA Editor |
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National Psychoanalytic Woman Scholar |
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Sponsoring Committee |
National Woman Psychoanalytic Scholar Committee (NWPS) |
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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. |
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Eligibility Criteria |
The proposed scholar must be a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, in good standing. |
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Applications Accepted |
Nominations can be made by any member of the American. |
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Contact Person |
Joanne Callan,
jecallan@pacific-science.com
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Presenter |
Chair of the NWPS Committee |
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Research Poster Session Award |
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Sponsoring Committee |
Committee on Scientific Activities, Poster Sessions and Research Symposia Subcommittee, Poster Subsection |
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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. |
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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. |
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Contact Persons |
Linda Goodman, Ph.D.
lgoodman@ucla.edu
Linda Mayes, M.D.
Linda.Mayes@yale.edu
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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. |
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Ralph E. Roughton Paper Award |
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Sponsoring Committee |
Committee on Gay & Lesbian Issues |
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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. |
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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. |
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Contact Person |
Ethan Grumbach, LCSW, Chair |
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Scientific Paper Prize |
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Sponsoring Committee |
Joint Committee on Scientific Activities - Subcommittee on Science Paper Prizes |
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Purpose |
A $1000 prize for the most outstanding empirical research paper relevant to psychoanalysis published in the previous calendar year. |
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Eligibility Criteria |
Empirical research papers published in English in any peer-reviewed journal. Authors need not be APsaA members. Judges review the major psychoanalytic journals to identify papers for consideration, and encourage the submission of papers published elsewhere. |
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Contact Person |
Co-Chair - Wendy Jacobson M.D.
wjaco02@emory.edu
Co-Chair - Jonathan Shedler Ph.D.,
jonathan@shedler.com
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Tina Faison tfaison@apsa.org
309 East 49th Street, New York, NY 10017
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Procedure |
Deadline for submission is February 1 of the subsequent year. Electronic submission is encouraged, or five hard copies, with cover letter addressed to the Co-chairs of the Subcommittee on Science Paper Prizes. |