Lee Jaffe Candidate’s Council Paper Prize Winners
| 2024 | Elizabeth Hamlin, MD, “Mourning and Medication” Bobbie M. Davis, Ph.D., LCSW, RPT-S, “Castrated Analyst: The Analytic Fourth” (semi-finalist) |
| 2023 | Louella Dias, Ph.D., “Maternal Eros: Through a Phenomenological, Psychoanalytic, and Cultural Lens” Matt Shatzman, M.A., LPC, “The Total Training Situation: Dimensions of Candidacy that Potentiate Analytic Process” (semi-finalist) |
| 2022 | Kristin Fiorella, Psy.D., MFT, “Thinking in Marrow Bone” Alice X. Huang, M.D., “Finding “Sense” in Separation Aesthetic Experiences as Transitional Phenomena in the Analytic Process” (semi-finalist) |
| 2021 | Rochelle M. Broder, Ph.D., “Low Fee, Rage and Countertransference”
Elizabeth Levey, M.D., “Analyzing from home: Where does psychoanalysis go in a pandemic?” |
| 2020 | Loren Sobel, M.D., M.S., “The Imaginative Bridge to Relational Contact: from the Random to the Meaningful”
Genie Dvorak, Psy.D., “The Persistent Past: Listening for the Logic and Potentials of the Repetition Compulsion” (semi-finalist) |
| 2019 | Mead Goedert, Ph.D., “Shamed if you do, shamed if you don’t: Clinical encounters with social class”
Kiana Keihani, Ph.D. (semi-finalist) |
| 2018 | Frank Tisano, M.S.W., “Excluding the Excluders, Excluding Ourselves: The College Campus Today.”
Mead Goedert, Ph.D., “Shamed if you do, shamed if you don’t: Clinical encounters with social class” (semi-finalist) |
| 2017 | Susan Barbour, Ed.D., “The Economic Problem of Candidacy”
Steven Baum, Psy.D., “The Analyst’s Enactments” (semi-finalist) |
| 2016 | Deborah Weisinger, Psy.D., “Developing a Psychoanalytic Identity in the Presence of a Psychotherapeutic Identity”
Suzanne Klein, Ph.D., “Healing Psychic Trauma through the Psychoanalytic Relationship” (semi-finalist) |
| 2015 | Sharon Leak, Ph.D., “Shame and Guilt in Dyslexia and Attention-Deficit Disorder, Perspectives from Clinical Practice and Research”
Phoebe Ann Cirio, M.S.W., LCSW, “Surrendering the Body: Suicide in Adolescence” (semi-finalist) |
| 2014 | No prize awarded. |
| 2013 | Alison C. Phillips, M.D., “A Path to ‘No’ ”
A. Chris Heath, M.D., “On the therapeutic action of Placebo” (semi-finalist) |
| 2012 | No prize awarded. |
| 2011 | Robin E. Gomolin, Psy.D., “The Intergenerational Theory of Holocaust Trauma: A Systematic Analysis of Psychoanalytic Theory”
Nuar Alsadir, Ph.D., “Laughter: The Only Acceptable Form of Catharsis.” (semi-finalist) |
| 2010 | Patricia A. Plopa, Ph.D., “Cancer, Candidacy and the Couch”
M. Ann Simmons, Ph.D., M.S.W., “The Bourne Ultimatum: Trauma and Superego” (semi-finalist) |
| 2009 | Robert Cohen, Ph.D., “Working Through the Analyst’s Contribution to the Patient’s Creative Inhibition” |
| 2008 | No prize awarded. |
| 2007 | Catherine Terri Lee, M.D., “Romantic Mirroring and Erotic Transference in the Female Analytic Dyad”
Lisa Anne Miller, M.D., “The Importance of Language in Self Regulation” (semi-finalist) |
| 2006 | Adele Tutter, M.D., Ph.D., “Medication as Object”
Susan Scheftel, Ph.D., “The World of William Steig: A Creative Representation of Early Separation and Resiliency” (semi-finalist) |
| 2005 | No prize awarded. |
| 2004 | John Jemerin, M.D., “Latency and the Capacity to Reflect on Mental States”
Cheryl Eschbach, M.D., Ph.D., “Womb Envy in Character Development” (semi-finalist) |
| 2003 | Jeffrey Applegate, Ph.D., “Re-Presenting Winnicott: New Findings from Infancy Research and Neurobiology”
Britt-Marie Schiller, Ph.D. and Susan Stiritz, Ph.D., “Transforming Categories: Genealogies of Virginity and Sainthood” (semi-finalist) |
| Dec. 2001 | Co-Winners Elizabeth Wallace, M.D., “Transference, Transformation, and Chocolate” Carolyn de Pottel, Ph.D., “Rethinking Envy and the Defenses Against It” |
| 2000 | Forrest Hamer, Ph.D., “Guards at the Gate: Race, Resistance and Psychic Reality” |
| 1999 | Alan T. Lloyd, M.D., “Metapsychology and the Selfish Gene”
Heather Craige, M.S.W., “Mourning Analysis: the Post-Termination Phase” (semi-finalist) |
| 1998 | Burton R. Hutto, M.D., “Disparate Goals in Clinical Psychoanalysis” |
