2025 Fred Pine Paper Award Winner Announced
Congratulations to Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. and Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D. for their paper “Time and Timelessness in the Unconscious”
The Fred Pine Award seeks to honor and express gratitude to Dr. Pine for his career-long mentorship-through half a century as a professor/teacher, head of clinical training programs, and clinical supervisor of a generation of psychoanalytically oriented clinicians and theorists.
We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2025 Fred Pine Ph.D. Award for a Paper Contributing to Psychoanalytic Theory, Technique, or Development. The winning paper, “Time and Timelessness in the Unconscious” by Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. and Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D. suggests that time and timelessness are coexistent, interrelated dimensions of experience, rather than binaries. They delineate ways that temporality infiltrates unconscious processes, including in language production, date marks, anniversary reactions, unconscious fears of death, and compromise formation. They draw on the psychoanalytic literature, contemporary chronobiological and developmental research, recent work in neuroscience as well as clinical observations. The creativity and high quality of scholarship of this paper, which helps to advance our understanding of the workings of the mind, is in the spirit of the innovative thinking that characterized Dr. Pine’s work.
The paper will be presented on January 13, 2026 from 8:00-9:30pm at an event to be hosted by NYPSI and co-sponsored by APsA and the NYU Postdoc program. This is a virtual event and registration is required to attend.
Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, is the co-author (with Danielle Knafo) of the book, Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World. He is a clinical consultant at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He has published articles on child development, empathy, unconscious fantasy, and sexual abuse. He is in private practice in New York City where he sees adults, teenagers and couples.
Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is Teaching Faculty, Clinical Consultant, and served for 6 years as Co-Chair of the Relational Track at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also Faculty at the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center and the National Training Program of NIP. She maintains an office practice in NYC working with individuals and couples.
Please contact Wendy Olesker, Ph.D. at [email protected] for any questions.
