A notable panel of anonymous judges evaluated a broad spectrum of work from 11 countries and selected four bodies of work most closely aligned with Mary Sigourney’s vision. Please join us in congratulating The Sigourney Award-2025 recipients In alphabetical order, clockwise from top left, recipients include: Dana Amir, PhD (Haifa, Israel); Calibán, Latin American Journal of Psychoanalysis (Montevideo, Uruguay); Siri Hustvedt, PhD (New York, USA); and ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action (New York, USA).

Professor Amir’s pioneering work has brought a novel and sophisticated perspective to the study of how trauma is conveyed in language. Amir has identified new pathways for therapeutic intervention, demonstrating that language can serve simultaneously as a symptom of trauma and a vehicle for healing.

Calibán, the official journal of the Psychoanalytic Federation of Latin America (FEPAL), is a stunning and engaging international Publication that has fostered both critical thinking and cultural growth within the psychoanalytic community.

Dr. Siri Hustvedt’s extraordinary work mines rich seams in psychoanalysis, literature, and culture and has significantly advanced the ongoing relevance of psychoanalysis in current intellectual and cultural discourse.

ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, a brilliantly curated and edited free digital forum and platform, has illuminated and forged new connections between psychoanalysis and the most pressing social, political, and cultural issues facing the contemporary world.

On “Throwback Thursday” we’re taking a look back at recipients in the news as we prepare to announce our 2025 award winners. Revisit Dr. Helí Morales Ascencio’s work with female victims of violence and relatives of the disappeared.

The Psychiatric Times conversation details how The Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust was founded and their focus on early childhood interventions to break cycles of emotional poverty.

We’re very proud to see two Sigourney recipients collaborating during a free virtual event this week! Professor Mark Solms (Sigourney Award-2011) presents the keynote discussion for the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group which is hosted by Sigourney Award-2021 recipients from the Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center.

Dominique Scarfone, MD, joins an online discussion entitled “The Sexual Drive for Power – The Passion for Ever More” with Orshi Hunyady, PhD, serving as moderator.

Sigourney Award-2024 recipient, Björn Salomonsson will join Tessa Baradon in a webinar on March 21st entitled “Rupture and Repair,” in the Early Relationships and Mental Health hosted by @TRTogether.

We always love when we can promote the work of two recipients at once. Sigourney Award-2021 recipient, Dr. Jorge Claudio Ulnik, MD, PhD will present a live webinar entitled Psychoanlaytic Approaches to the Skin Patient on Friday (3/14) for the Austen Riggs Center’s ( 2021 Sigourney Award recipient) “Virtual Grand Rounds.”

Merav Roth, Sigourney Award - 2024 recipient, is a guest on Arash's World Podcast. Click below for a link to the episode.

We’re proud to see this @alessandriatoday.piercarlolava news announcement regarding Sigourney Award-2023 recipient, Vittorio Lingiardi. Read more about this free event on Friday, December 6 at 5.45 pm .

We’ve just had big news to announce with our most recent Sigourney Award recipients’ introductions and we’re proud to see previous recipients continue to do great work around the world. Join Professor Lemma and others at this free conference speaking on Mourning and Melancholy in the Digital Age, Wed., Nov 27th.

Distinguished judges evaluated submissions from an exceptional pool of global applicants and four recipients’ work merited the prestigious award. Please join us in congratulating The Sigourney Award-2024 recipients (in alphabetical order): Merav Roth, PhD (Tel Aviv, Israel); Björn Salomonsson, MD (Stockholm, Sweden); Dominique Scarfone, MD (Montreal, Canada), and The Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust (Johannesburg, South Africa).

Professor Roth’s unprecedented interdisciplinary work on psychoanalysis and literature, and treatment of individual and collective trauma exercised original psychoanalytic thought and advanced “psychoanalysis for the people.”

Dr. Björn Salomonsson’s leading-edge work paved the path for applying psychoanalytic principles to infant and perinatal mental health and infant-parent relationships and introducing those techniques to community health care professionals.

Professor Dominique Scarfone’s influential work introduced French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche to a wide audience, bridging the French, British and North American psychoanalytic cultures, and produced essential theoretical contributions in unconscious communication, temporality, and translation.

The Ububele Trust’s unique work expands accessibility and efficacy of psychoanalytic treatment in South Africa, addressing the country’s traumatic past and current uncertainties and challenges to personal relationships and mental health related to poverty, unemployment, poor infrastructure, and other crises.

We’ll soon introduce our Sigourney Award-2024 recipients, and are always pleased to see previous recipients spotlighted, such as Mark Solms (2011) who recently sat down with The Collector to discuss his revised translation of Sigmund Freud’s complete psychological works (The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud) and more.

We are saddened to learn that Psychoanalyst Roosevelt Cassorla has passed away at the age of 79 on September 23, 2024. Dr. Cassorla’s groundbreaking work was recognized with The Sigourney Award-2017, for delving deep into the technical components of the analytical process with patients who are difficult to reach and have deficits in their symbolization capacity. 

The Erikson Institute for Research, Education, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center, a Sigourney Award-2021 recipient, hosts the Friday Night Guest Lecture series (6:30-8:00 p.m. EDT via Zoom). 

This Psychiatric Times Q&A with Rosine Perelberg, PhD (Sigourney Award-2023) discusses the intersection between psychoanalytic thought and social anthropology and the future of psychoanalysis.

On June 12th, you have an opportunity to hear The Sigourney Award-2023 recipient, Professor Daniel Pick, discuss The Fear of Hidden Influence: Psychoanalysis, Culture and Political Life through an event with The British Psychoanalytical Society (BPS). Pick draws from material in his book, Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control. Click below for registration information.

Alessandra Lemma, recipient of The Sigourney Award-2022, has published an Open Access paper which "looks at the effects of online pornography." She has been involved with the UK government’s Independent Pornography Review and you can review this important work now. 

On June 14th, 2022 Sigourney Award recipient Jack Drescher, MD, will moderate the IPS Journal Club, a project of the IPA Communications Committee.

Patricia Gherovici, PhD and recipient of The Sigourney Award-2020 for her for her clinical and scholarly work with Latinx and gender variant communities, joins a panel discussion during the 31st Symposium at The Museum at FIT in New York City.

We're happy to share the news Professor Daniel Pick, a Sigourney Award-2023 recipient, has received recently surrounding his well-received book: Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control.  You can hear his engaging discussion on a UK-based podcast, or read a review. 

Applications and nominations for The Sigourney Award-2024 are open March 1 – July 31, and work from any geographic location accomplished between 2014-2023 is eligible for consideration.

Mary Sigourney established The Sigourney Award Trust in 1989 to recognize and reward outstanding psychoanalytic achievements that benefit humankind around the world. Today Analyst Co-trustee Robin A. Deutsch, PhD, introduces Michael J. Harrington, JD, as the Trust’s new Attorney Co-trustee for The Sigourney Award Trust. The accomplished legal and financial specialist and San Francisco resident succeeds Barbara C. Sherland, JD, the Trust’s Attorney Co-trustee for the past 14 years.