Book Prize Winners
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| 2026 | Alexander Kriss, Ph.D., for the book Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder (Beacon Press, 2024) |
| 2025 | Carolyn Laubender, Ph.D., for the book The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century (Columbia University Press, 2024) |
| 2024 | Vera J. Camden, Ph.D., ed., for the book The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis (Cambridge University Press, 2022) |
| 2023 | Richard Frankel and Victor J. Krebs, for their book Human Virtuality and Digital Life: Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Investigations (Routledge, 2022) |
| 2022 | Hannah Zeavin, Ph.D., for her book The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021) |
| 2021 | Alicia Mireles Christoff for her book Novel Relations (Princeton Univ Press, 2019) |
| 2020 | Noëlle McAfee, Ph.D. for her book Fear of Breakdown: Politics and Psychoanalysis (Columbia University Press, 2019) |
| 2019 | Naomi Morgenstern, Ph.D., for her book Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2018) |
| 2018 | Anne C. Dailey, J.D., for her book Law and the Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective (Yale University Press, 2017) |
| 2017 | Jeffrey Berman, Ph.D. and Paul W. Mosher, M.D., for their book Confidentiality and Its Discontents: Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy (Fordham Univ. Press, 2015) |
| 2016 | Kate Schechter, Ph.D., for her book Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire (Duke, 2014) |
| 2015 | Elizabeth Lunbeck, Ph.D., for her book The Americanization of Narcissism (Harvard Univ. Press, 2014) |
| 2014 | John C. Burnham, Ph.D., Editor, for his book After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2012) |
| 2013 | Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D., for her book Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion (Routledge, 2012) |
| 2012 | Mary Bergstein, Ph.D., for her book Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art (Cornell, 2010) |