The Peter Loewenberg Essay Prize In Psychoanalysis and Culture Winners

(Established in 1997)

2023	Britt-Marie Schiller, Ph.D. “Figurability in the Art of Louise Bourgeois”
2022	No award given
2021	Peter T. Hoffer, Ph.D. “Translation and Its Vicissitudes”
2020	Rosemary Rizq, Ph.D. “Familiar Artifice: Ways of Telling in the Short Story, Psychoanalysis and Alice Munro’s ‘The Moons of Jupiter’”
2019	Richard P. Wheeler, Ph.D. “The Pursuit of Sadness: Lullaby of Country”
2018	Daniel Butler, LMFT “Resignation Syndrome and the Psychopolitics of Petrification”
2017	Christopher W. T. Miller, M.D. “Confusion of Tears: The Deadened Oedipal Couple and Predatory Identifications in the Rape of Lucrece”
2016	Christine Maksimowicz, Ph.D. “Poverty, Parenting, and the Foreclosure of ‘Ordinary Devotion’: Rethinking Winnicott Socioanalytically”
2015	Gavriel Reisner, Ph.D. “Ghosted and Ancestral Selves in Hamlet”
2014	Danielle Knafo, Ph.D. “For the Love of Death: Somnophilic and Necrophilic Acts and Fantasies”
2013	Ann P. McMahon, Ph.D. “The Power of Processes: The Integration of Engineering, Psychoanalysis and Education”
2012	Adele Tutter, M.D., Ph.D. “Notes on art, loss, and nationalism under political oppression: The photography of Josef Sudek—angel with a missing wing”
2011	Marcelo Zigaran “Music as an Expression of a Drive”
2010	Ellen Schattschneider, Ph.D. “The Fetish Goes to War: Disavowal and the Family Romance in Modern Japan”
2009	Dawn Skorczewski, Ph.D. “You, I, we created the poet”: Anne Sexton’s Recorded Therapy Sessions”
2008	Elise Miller, Ph.D. “Whose Subject?: What Literary Authors Can Teach Clinicians Who Write About Patients”
2007	Elise Miller, Ph.D. “Narrating Trauma: Autobiography and Healing”
2006	Kevin Groark, Ph.D. “Placing the Self: Dreaming, Discourse, and Disavowed Volition among the Tzotzil Maya of Highland Chiapas, Mexico”
2005	George Mashour, M.D., Ph.D. “Toward a General Theory of Unconscious Processes in Psychoanalysis and Anesthesiology
2004	Naomi Janowitz, Ph.D., Professor of Religious Studies at UC Davis “Lusting for Death: Some Unconscious Meanings of Martyrdom Traditions”
2003	Anne C. Dailey “Psychoanalysis and the Ideal of Reasoned Deliberation in Constitutional Law”
2002	Diane O’Donoghue, Ph.D “Negotiations of Surface: Archeology Within the Early Strata of Psychoanalysis”
2001	Tammy Clewell, Ph.D. “Mourning Beyond Melancholia: Freud’s Psychoanalysis of Loss”
2000	Joseph Aguayo, Ph.D. “The Patronal Background of Melanie Klein’s Work and Interpretations of Anna and Sigmund Freud’s Conceptualizations of the Child, 1914-1932”
1999	Laura Mandell, Ph.D. “Melancholia’s Cure or Resurrection by Poetry”
1998	Norman Doidge M.D. “Diagnosing The English Patient: Contributions to Understanding”
1997	Janice Coco Ph.D. “Exploring the Frontier from the Inside Out”

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