Ralph Roughton Award Winners
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| 2027 |
Gila Astor, PhD and Christopher Walling, PhD, FIPA
“Beyond the Dyad: Eros, Multiplicity, and the Throuple.” JAPA in press.
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| 2026 |
Michael Perlman, MFA, LP.
“Ready or Not: The Queer Experience of Being Found.” JAPA in press.
Runner-Up: Xiaomeng (Jo) Qiao, M.A.
“Becoming Myself: Transgender Authentic Selfhood in the Chinese Context.” Psychoanalytic Inquiry 47(5) (on-line May 2026).
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| 2025 |
Robert Benedetti, Ph.D.
“Gay Men: Loss, Grief, and Mourning and the Reopening of Foreclosed Psychic Space.” JAPA in press. Diana Moga, M.D., Ph.D. “Neuroqueering the Psychoanalytic Lens.” JAPA (on-line November, 2025).
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| 2024 |
Andi P. Eliza-Christie
Surviving Charitable Hatred: Spiritual Violence and Queer Resilience. (2025) Psychoanalytic Inquiry 45(10): 849-863
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| 2023 |
Christina Nadler, Ph.D., L.P.
Creative Bodies: Thinking Queerly about Queer Baby-
Making. [Self-published: C. Nadler (2023). Dyking Oedipal Logics of Sexual Difference. https://zenodo.org/records/10403594] |
| 2022 |
Oren Gozlan, Psy.D., ABPP.
“Adolescent Ruthlessness and the Transitioning of the Analyst’s Mind.” (2022) JAPA 70:459-484.
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| 2021 |
Sien Rivera, M.D.
“From Battleground to Playground: A Winnicottian Reading of the Video Game Avatar as Transitional Phenomenon for the Queer, Transgender, and/or Gender Non-Conforming Patient.” (2022) JAPA 70:485-510.
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| 2019 |
Sam Guzzardi, L.C.S.W
“The Only Fag Around.” (2022) JAPA 70:437-458.
David Pauley L.C.S.W. and Rajiv Gulati, M.D.
“Discerning the ‘Healthy Homosexual’ in Leonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood.” (2022) JAPA 68:3. pp. 359-406.
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| 2018 |
Janna Sandmeyer
“Understanding Homophobia in Our Forefathers: Rethinking How Kohut Actually Worked.” (2019) Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 14:4, 376-392.
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| 2017 |
Francisco J. González, MD
“Writing Gender with Sexuality: Reflections on the Diaries of Lou Sullivan” (2019) JAPA 67:59-82.
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| 2015 |
Griffin Hansbury, M.A., L.C.S.W.
“The Masculine Vaginal: Working with Queer Men’s Embodiment at the Transgender Edge” (2017) JAPA 65:1009-1031.
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| 2014 |
Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D.
“Mourning the Body as Bedrock: Developmental Considerations in Treating Transexual Patients Analytically.” (2014) JAPA 62:773-806.
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| 2013 |
Bertram J. Cohler, Ph.D. and Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, M.D.
“The Historical Moment in the Analysis of Gay Men.” (2013) JAPA 61:1139-1173.
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| 2011 |
Barbara F. Marcus, Ph.D. and Susan McNamara, M.D.
“‘Strange and Otherwise Unaccountable Actions’: Category, Conundrum, and Transgender Identities.” (2013) JAPA 61:45-66.
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| 2010 | Mary Brady, Ph.D.
“‘Sometimes We are Prejudiced Against Ourselves’: Internalized and External Homophobia in the Treatment of an Adolescent Boy” (2011) Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 47:458-479. |
| 2005 | Vittorio Lingiardi, M.D. and Paola Capozzi, M.D.
“Psychoanalytic attitudes towards homosexuality: An empirical research” (2004) IJP 85:137-158 |
| 2003 | Elizabeth Auchincloss, M.D. and Susan C. Vaughan, M.D.
“Psychoanalysis and homosexuality: Do we need a new theory?” (2001) JAPA 49:1157-1186. |
| 2001 | Sidney Phillips, M.D.
“The overstimulation in everyday life: New aspects of male homosexuality” (2001) JAPA 49:1235-1267. |
| 2000 |
Scott Goldsmith, M.D.
“Oedipus or Orestes? Homosexual Men, their Mothers, and Other Women Revisited” (2001) JAPA 49:1269-1287.
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| 1999 | Sidney Phillips, M.D.
“A new analytic dyad: Homosexual analyst and heterosexual patient” (1998) JAPA 46:1195-1219. |
| 1998 | Ralph Roughton, M.D.
“Four men in treatment: An evolving perspective on homosexuality and Bisexuality, 1965 to 2000” (2001) JAPA 49:1187-1217. |