Award for Excellence in Journalism Winners
| 2024 | Leslie Jamison, “So You Think You’ve Been Gaslit: What happens when a niche clinical conflict becomes a ubiquitous cultural diagnosis” The New Yorker, April 2024 Honorable mention Stephanie Foster “The Remaking of a Therapist,” Psychiatry at the Margins, Sept 2023 |
| 2022 | Max Cavitch, “Psyche on Campus“, ongoing blog. |
| 2021 | Sophie Putka, Discover Magazine, “Why We’re Prone to Denial”, Jan 24, 2021 |
| 2020 | Laura Santhanam, PBS NewsHour, for “How detention causes long-term harm”, which was published on August 22, 2019 |
| 2019 | NPR’s Podcast “Hidden Brain” for it’s broadcast Why Now, which aired February 5, 2019 |
| 2018 | Kathleen McGrory, Tampa Bay Times, for “Worthy of Survival” which was published on November 17, 2016 |
| 2017 | Mark Follman, Mother Jones, for “Inside the Race To Stop the Next Mass Shooter” which appeared in the October 2016 issue. |
| 2016 | Gabrielle Glaser, The Atlantic, for “The Irrationality of Alcholics Anonymous” which appeared in the April 2015 issue. |
| 2015 | Laura Starecheski, on NPR’s The State of the Re:Union for “The Hospital Always Wins” which aired on October 1, 2013. |
| 2014 | Laura Tillman, Pacific Standard, for “What Does It Take For Traumatized Kids To Thrive?” which appeared in May 6, 2013 issue. |
| 2013 | Mark Massé for a chapter titled “Transformer” published in Trauma Journalism: On Deadline in Harm’s Way (2011). |
| 2012 | Rachel Aviv, Harper’s Magazine, for “This Way Madness Lies: Can Psychosis be Prevented?” which appeared in the December 2010 issue. |
| 2011 | Molly Knight Raskin, Scientific American Mind magazine, for “When Passion is the Enemy” which appeared in the July 2010 issue. |
| 2010 | Daphne Merkin, New York Times Magazine, for “A Journey Through Darkness” which appeared in the May 10, 2009 issue. |
| 2009 | Laurie Abraham, New York Times Magazine, for “Can This Marriage be Saved?” which appeared in the August 12, 2007 issue. |
| 2008 | Elizabeth Bernstein, The Wall Street Journal, for “After A Suicide, Privacy on Trial — A jury weighs whether Chuck Mahoney’s college should have told his parents more” which appeared in the March 24, 2007 issue. |
| 2007 | Jerry Adler, Claudia Kalb, and Anne Underwood – Newsweek cover story, March 27, 2006.
Special Recognition awards: Carl Sherman – Clinical Psychiatry News, for the quality of his coverage over the |
| 2006 | Alix Spiegel, The New Yorker, for The Dictionary of Disorder” which appeared in the January 3, 2005 issue. |
| 2005 | Erica Goode, The New York Times, for “And Still Echoes of A Death Long Past”, on October 28, 2003. |
| 2004 | Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, U.S. News & World Report, for “Sigmund Freud: The Father of Modern Psychoanalysis Transformed Our Understanding of Ourselves and of Each Other” which appeared in a special edition of U.S. News and World Report, entitled “Secrets of Genius: Three Minds That Shaped the Twentieth Century” in the spring/summer 2003. This volume also included essays on Albert Einstein and Karl Marx.
Special Recognition award: |
| 2003 | Margaret Talbot, The New York Times Magazine cover story, “Hysteria, Hysteria”, June 2, 2002. |
| 2001 | Wynne Godley, London Review, for “Saving Masud Khan”, February 22, 2001 Diana Sugg, The Baltimore Sun, for “Paths Diverge in Struggle to Prevent Youth Suicides”, April 29, 2001. |
| 2000 | Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, “The Empty Couch: What is Lost When Psychiatry Turns to Drugs,” May 8, 2000. |
| 1999 | Prior to the formal establishment of the Award for Excellence in Journalism, Wall Street Journal senior editor Carol Hymowitz was honored in 1999 with the Award for Distinguished Contribution for her coverage of medical privacy issues |
