Dr. Ulnik in the News
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.”
Offering 1.0 CE/CME, the course will: identify the most common complaints, behavior and the unconscious phantasies of skin patients; compare the Ego functions and the skin functions; and apply psychoanalytic knowledge to the clinical practice with skin patients.
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/4xtedtss
Sigourney Award Recipient on Arash's World Podcast
Merav Roth, Sigourney Award - 2024 recipient, is a guest on Arash's World Podcast. Click below for a link to the episode.
Posted on YouTube, you can both listen and watch the fascinating discussion about her work in literature and reading as well as trauma.
Another Winner in the News
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 .
He joins Daria Bignardi for a discussion of his book “Corpo, umana” (Body, Human) this Friday, December 6 at 5.45 pm in the Great Council Chamber of the Ducal Palace Foundation Genoa, Italy. Free admission.
Winners in the News
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.
Professor Alessandra Lemma, University College London, a Sigourney Award-2022 recipient, will speak at a conference on Wed., Nov. 27th in Geneva. She joins discussant Professor Martin Debbane, FPSE, University of Geneva for the free conference given in English, with simultaneous translation.
The Sigourney Award-2024 Recipients Announced!
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).
The Sigourney Award-2024 Recipients Honored For Outstanding Work Advancing
Psychoanalytic Principles Globally
Four Recipients’ Work From Israel, Sweden, Canada and South Africa Earns
The Sigourney Award-2024
SEATTLE, WA – Nov. 12, 2024 – The Sigourney Award Trust annually recognizes outstanding work that advances psychoanalytic thought and principles throughout the world. Robin A. Deutsch, PhD and Analyst Co-Trustee of The Sigourney Award Trust, today announces three individuals and one organization whose work of the past decade earns The Sigourney Award-2024 and a substantial cash prize. Recipients include: 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).
"The 2024 recipients’ work has uniquely and positively impacted populations, including the youngest among us, by expanding access and understanding of psychoanalysis as well as psychotherapy’s benefits to professionals and the general public,” says Dr. Deutsch. "The anonymous judges, who likewise conduct exemplary professional careers, evaluated work from 10 countries to select work that most closely aligned with Mary Sigourney's original intent.”
Founded by Mary Sigourney in 1989, The Sigourney Award was established to recognize and promote exceptional work that advances psychoanalytic principles and their ability to better humankind.
Work Meriting The Sigourney Award-2024 (Alphabetical order)
Merav Roth, PhD (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Prof. Merav Roth’s exceptional interdisciplinary work included an unparalleled approach to psychoanalysis and literature, which gave readers a better understanding of the deep psychic processes involved in reading and earned her a reputation as a pioneering psychoanalytic thinker. Her notable work also expands to her impactful role as a writer and activist on trauma, ethics and culture in Israel and abroad. Accomplishments in the past decade include her first book, A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature - Reading the Reader (Routledge, 2020), where she described the unconscious processes involved in reading literature. As the former chair of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy program at Tel Aviv University, Roth established and still chairs “The Clinic For All” which provides pro-bono psychotherapy for deprived or disadvantaged populations. As a professor at the University of Haifa, Roth established a new philanthropic initiative, “Interweaving,” a culturally sensitive clinic for disadvantaged populations. Following the events of October 7 in Israel, Roth’s psychoanalytic work with trauma was swiftly employed to provide guidance and wide-reaching help, including establishing with two colleagues a philanthropic network of 450 psychoanalysts who provide long-term pro-bono support to survivors and their family members.
Björn Salomonsson, MD (Stockholm, Sweden)
Dr. Björn Salomonsson’s work has profoundly amplified psychoanalytic knowledge and infant caretaking techniques, and engaged non-psychoanalytic healthcare professionals participating in pre-, peri-, and post-natal care of mothers and infants. An Associate Professor at Swedish Psychoanalytic Institute, Salomonsson combined training in psychoanalysis and research to improve the early life of distressed babies by wholly refining Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy (PIP) methodology. He also co-founded The A Primo Foundation, with successful courses for nurses, midwives and psychologists in Maternity Units and Child Health Centers. His work pioneered psychoanalytic techniques for working directly with child health nurses who had little to no prior psychoanalytic exposure. Nurses used the techniques to address perturbed infant-parent relationships and creatively and respectfully bring a psychoanalytic understanding of the infant’s and parents' experience of troubled relationships. In his book Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy (2018), Salomonsson systematically describes how a therapist can practice treatment beyond the one-to-one model and deliver a multi-relationship-based psychoanalytic therapy model by actively engaging the infant during psychoanalytic therapy. Today, PIP is viewed as highly relevant for every analyst.
Dominique Scarfone, MD (Montreal, Canada)
Prof. Dominique Scarfone’s influential work has advanced a veritable renaissance in the study and transmission of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche’s work and produced essential theoretical contributions in unconscious communication, temporality, and the translational model of the psyche. Providing a new approach to Freudian thinking, his endeavors bridge French, British and North American psychoanalytic culture. Scarfone’s work demonstrates how the marriage of tradition with radical thinking can expand the field of psychoanalysis. While maintaining a solid belief that Freud’s foundational method offers a common ground between these cultures, he has urged persistent questioning and reconsidering of Freud’s methods to liberate new thinking. Scarfone has illuminated a modern approach to how the psychosexual enters all these domains through work addressing clinical matters, questions of transference and repetition, one’s relationship to art and ethics, and the deep complexity of what it means to be human. Within the past ten years Scarfone has published three significant books including Laplanche (2014), The Unpast (2015), and The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the Wake of Jean Laplanche (2023).
The Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust (Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa)
The Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust’s outstanding work addresses the country’s traumatic past and current uncertainties, major challenges to personal relationships, mental-health challenges related to poverty, unemployment, poor infrastructure, and other crises by ingeniously magnifying the accessibility and efficacy of psychoanalytic treatment in South Africa. Ububele’s approach is rooted in the lived experiences of Johannesburg and Alexandra's community of over 500,000 people overburdened by harsh poverty, serious crime, corruption and the lesser recognized but lasting impact of apartheid. An essential awareness and acknowledgement of transference and the influence of the unconscious informs unique initiatives centered on promoting healthy parent-child attachment through the development of low-cost, replicable models of psychoanalytically informed interventions. Two examples include the Ububele Umdlezane Parent-Infant Programs focused on the first thousand days of life and the Therapy and Assessment Clinic which conducts psychoeducational assessments and psychotherapy services. Ububele’s capacity building methods offer initial and continuing training emphasizing the transference relationship and the necessity of working beyond the surface. The training provides youth and caregivers the psychoanalytically informed psycho-emotional support needed to succeed in breaking inter-generational cycles of emotional poverty and mental health despair.
"The Sigourney Award’s canons are unwavering and the Trust works tirelessly to ensure that Mary Sigourney’s intent is honored with a wholly independent assessment of exceptional work with each year’s Awards. We are fortunate to attract applications and nominations from around the world representing ground-breaking work that has advanced psychoanalytic thought and principles," says Michael J. Harrington, JD, Attorney Co-Trustee of The Sigourney Award Trust.
Merav Roth’s Work Wins The Sigourney Award - 2024
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.”
Work by Merav Roth PhD Earns International Recognition With
The Sigourney Award-2024
Extraordinary interdisciplinary work on psychoanalysis and literature and pioneering psychoanalytic study, treatment of trauma earns Prof. Merav Roth The Sigourney Award-2024
Seattle, WA – Nov. 12, 2024 -- The Sigourney Award annually bestows international recognition and a substantial cash prize for outstanding work completed within the past 10 years that advances psychoanalytic thought worldwide. A prestigious panel of judges carefully reviewed applicants from 10 countries across the globe and today, Robin A. Deutsch, PhD and Analyst Co-Trustee of The Sigourney Award Trust, announces Merav Roth, PhD (Tel Aviv, Israel) as one of four international recipients presented the prestigious prize.
“Dr. Roth’s work reflects Mary Sigourney’s commitment to reaching audiences outside the psychoanalytic community. Her work has benefited society and helped advance ‘psychoanalysis for the people’ through clinical work with disadvantaged populations and victims of trauma, and by introducing a psychoanalytic understanding of reading and literature, accessible to psychoanalysts and lay people,” says Dr. Deutsch.
Merav Roth, PhD (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Prof. Merav Roth’s pioneering work in studying and treating private and collective trauma has employed innovative applications of traditional and novel psychoanalytic thought and advanced Freud’s cherished goal of a “psychoanalysis for the people.” Alongside her work writing on trauma, ethics and culture in Israel and abroad, in the last decade Roth’s novel approach to psychoanalysis and literature has given readers a better understanding of the deep psychic processes involved in reading. Her impressive interdisciplinary work on psychoanalysis and literature earned her reputation as an original psychoanalytic thinker.
In her first book, A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature - Reading the Reader (Routledge, 2020), Roth described the unconscious processes involved in reading literature - a riddle that was declared challenging to reach by other researchers such as Holland and Lesser. Additional books have dealt with the human condition, internal battles, and ethical standing. Her work has elevated psychoanalytic programs at Tel Aviv University and at the University of Haifa, including founding post-graduate Klein studies in the Psychoanalytic psychotherapy program, Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, researching, writing and presenting psychoanalytic applications and interdisciplinary work (psychoanalysis and literature) to therapists and the public.
Another non-traditional application of psychoanalytic thought is to the field of ethical standing. Roth has written extensively on Holocaust literary works and on civil standing, human spirit and resilience in the face of evil and injustice - all from a Kleinian perspective, highlighting one’s challenge to avoid vengeance and promote human solidarity. Roth also founded philanthropic psychoanalytic psychotherapy clinics for disadvantaged populations (including survivors of prostitution, homelessness, etc.), and promoted pioneering psychoanalytic work with trauma. As the former chair of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy program at Tel Aviv University, Roth established and still chairs “The Clinic For All” which provides pro-bono psychotherapy for deprived or disadvantaged populations. As a professor at the University of Haifa, she established a new philanthropic initiative, “Interweaving,” a culturally sensitive clinic for diverse disadvantaged populations.
Roth’s psychoanalytic work with trauma was swiftly employed to provide guidance and wide-reaching help after the events of October 7 in Israel. She lived with the survivors of Kibbutz Be’eri to establish therapeutic first aid, and she still counsels them, the Hostages Families Forum and more. She and two colleagues established “FLM,” a civil philanthropic network of 450 psychoanalysts who provide expertise and pro-bono, long-term therapy for survivors and their family members.
Her theoretical and clinical work is innovative, poetic and rigorous. Her sought-after teachings are shared through media and participation in highly respected cultural and scientific platforms which helps bring psychoanalytic thinking to the forefront.
"The Sigourney Award and the recognition it conveys for groundbreaking psychoanalytic work give me and many analysts the strength to tirelessly continue applying psychoanalysis for the benefit of trauma survivors worldwide,” says Roth. “I deeply believe in the human capacity to transcend primitive tendencies and be our better selves.”
Björn Salomonsson’s Work Wins The Sigourney Award – 2024
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.
Work by Björn Salomonsson MD Earns International Recognition With
The Sigourney Award-2024
Salomonsson’s work links classical psychoanalytic and attachment theory and infant research addressing distressed mothers and babies to earn The Sigourney Award-2024
Seattle, WA – Nov. 12, 2024 -- The Sigourney Award annually bestows international recognition and a substantial cash prize for outstanding work completed within the past 10 years that advances psychoanalytic thought. A prestigious panel of judges carefully reviewed applicants from 10 countries across the globe and today, Robin A. Deutsch, PhD and Analyst Co-Trustee of The Sigourney Award Trust, announces Björn Salomonsson, MD and Assoc. Prof. (Stockholm, Sweden) as one of four international recipients presented the prestigious prize.
“Our founder Mary Sigourney sought to reward innovative work that bettered humankind. Dr. Salomonsson’s work has introduced psychoanalysts and non-psychoanalytic health care workers directly serving families to techniques that treat parent-infant dyads, creating decisive societal reverberations,” says Dr. Deutsch.
Björn Salomonsson, MD and Assoc. Prof. (Stockholm, Sweden)
Dr. Björn Salomonsson’s work has significantly amplified psychoanalytic knowledge and infant caretaking techniques and engaged non-psychoanalytic healthcare professionals involved in pre-, peri-, and post-natal care of mothers and infants. Combining training in psychoanalysis and research, his work improves the early life of distressed babies by profoundly refining psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy (PIP) methodology. His work pioneered psychoanalytic techniques working directly with child health nurses, whose exposure to psychoanalysis was minimal, to address perturbed infant-parent relationships. This creatively and respectfully introduced a psychoanalytic understanding of the infant’s and parents' experience of troubled relationships.
Today, PIP, no longer a pale shadow of adult treatment, is viewed as highly relevant for every analyst. Salomonsson’s research contributions focus on the psychic life of young children in their formative years. Notably, he is able to convey his findings to professionals and lay people through videos and other tools in an empirically comprehensible way. Strengthening links between clinical practice and psychoanalytic theory, his work has provided detailed clinical vignettes and used video-recorded therapies to better explicate the clinical process. Moreover, he has evaluated therapies quantitatively and anchored the research academically. In his book Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy (2018), Salomonsson systematically describes how during psychoanalytic therapy actively engaging the infant, the therapist can practice therapies beyond the one-to-one and deliver a multi-relationship-based psychoanalytic therapy model.
“I am thrilled that my work earned The Sigourney Award. We know that mental health, in the infant and later in the child, teenager, and adult, is crucially linked to the parent’s well-being. By providing skilled therapeutic help to families through the parent-infant therapy I have developed, we can get to ‘the root of children’s future,’” says Dr. Salomonsson.
Salomonsson now teaches at the Swedish Psychoanalytic Institute on infant sexuality, developmental theories, parent-infant psychotherapy, and nonverbal communication. He co-founded The A Primo Foundation, with successful courses for nurses, midwives and psychologists in Maternity Units and Child Health Centers. Within the Swedish, European, and International psychoanalytic societies, he has been a regular presenter and panelist at the World Association for Infant Mental Health Congresses, the Anna Freud Centre London, and at perinatal mental health and child health and midwifery conferences and workshops.
Dominique Scarfone’s Work Wins The Sigourney Award – 2024
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.
Work by Dominique Scarfone MD Earns International Recognition With
The Sigourney Award-2024
Scarfone’s work advanced the study of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche’s work and generated essential theoretical contributions to earn The Sigourney Award-2024
Seattle, WA – Nov. 12, 2024 -- Annually, The Sigourney Award bestows international recognition and a substantial cash prize honoring outstanding psychoanalytic work completed during the past 10 years. A prestigious panel of judges carefully reviewed applicants from 10 countries across the globe and today, Robin A. Deutsch, PhD and Analyst Co-Trustee of The Sigourney Award Trust, announces Dominique Scarfone, MD (Montreal, Canada) as one of four international recipients presented the prestigious prize.
“Professor Scarfone’s work has expanded the reach of psychoanalysis by elucidating the psychoanalytic thinking and principles from Sigmund Freud and Jean Laplanche, working to build bridges between French, British and North American psychoanalytic cultures. His work also addresses questions of transference and repetition in our relationship to art and ethics and is an exceptional example of what Mary Sigourney called a ‘benefit for humankind,’” says Dr. Deutsch.
Dominique Scarfone, MD (Montreal, Canada)
Professor Dominique Scarfone’s influential work has advanced a veritable renaissance in the study and transmission of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche’s work and produced essential theoretical contributions in unconscious communication, temporality, and translation. His work demonstrates how uniting tradition with radical thinking can expand the field of psychoanalysis.
Providing a new approach to Freudian thinking, Scarfone’s endeavors bridge French, British and North American psychoanalytic culture. Maintaining a solid belief that Freud’s foundational method offers a common ground between these cultures, he has urged persistent questioning and a reconsidering of Freud’s methods to evolve new thinking. Scarfone’s work has illuminated a modern path to understanding how the psychosexual enters the domains of transference and repetition, one’s relationship to art and ethics, and the deep complexity of what it means to be human.
His Freud and Laplanche scholarly work presents conceptual research and new ideas regarding the time dimension of psychic functioning. He has delivered distinct guidelines about the effects of psychoanalytic treatment, including the constitution of a real past instead of an ever present "unpast." Scarfone explained that Laplanche taught him how to turn the Freudian method upon Freud’s own writings to critically reassess them and thereby constantly refresh psychoanalytic thinking.
Scarfone’s efforts have generated new ideas about the psychoanalytic stance towards transference with the concept of “readiness,” or “availability,” and the inescapability of trauma in psychic life. Within the past ten years he has augmented his work, publishing three significant books including Laplanche (2014), The Unpast (2015), and The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the Wake of Jean Laplanche (2023). Further, his bi-weekly international seminar Penser avec Freud (Thinking with Freud) builds a better understanding of how Freud thought on a given topic.
“As an author deeply engaged in the development of psychoanalysis, receiving such a distinguished award is very gratifying. It tells me that there are organizations such as The Sigourney Award Trust who actively support the existence and development of psychoanalysis. This is of the utmost importance considering that our discipline, given the special nature of its subject matter, the unconscious, has to constantly struggle to assert its value,” says Scarfone.
Scarfone is a retired clinical psychoanalyst, a training and supervising analyst in the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (Montreal French Branches) and a former full professor at the Université de Montréal.
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The Ububele Education and Psychoanalytic Trust's Work Wins The Sigourney Award – 2024
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.
Work by Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust Earns International Recognition With The Sigourney Award-2024
Ububele’s work imparts psychoanalytically informed healthy parent-child attachment through low-cost, replicable models in South Africa and earns The Sigourney Award-2024
Seattle, WA – Nov. 12, 2024 – Each year, The Sigourney Award bestows international recognition and a substantial cash prize for outstanding work completed within the past 10 years that advances psychoanalytic thought worldwide. A prestigious panel of judges carefully reviewed applicants from 10 countries across the globe and today, Robin A. Deutsch, PhD and Analyst Co-Trustee of The Sigourney Award Trust, announces the not-for-profit Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust (Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa) as one of four international recipients presented the prestigious prize. The organization’s Executive Director Esther Chunga accepted the award on their behalf.
“The Ububele organization’s ingenious development of psychoanalytically informed interventions for highly vulnerable citizens supports Founder Mary Sigourney’s original intent to honor the application of psychoanalytic principles to better society,” says Dr. Deutsch.
The Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust (Johannesburg, South Africa)
The Ububele Trust’s exceptional work expands the accessibility and efficacy of psychoanalytic treatment in South Africa, addressing the country’s traumatic past and current uncertainties, including major challenges to personal relationships and mental-health challenges related to poverty, unemployment, poor infrastructure, and other crises. The organization’s unique initiatives, centered on promoting healthy parent-child attachment, are low-cost, replicable models of psychoanalytically informed interventions including an emphasis on transference and appreciation for the influence of the unconscious.
Ububele’s approach is firmly rooted in the lived experiences of Johannesburg and Alexandra's community of over 500,000 people overburdened by harsh poverty, serious crime, corruption and the lesser recognized but lasting impact of apartheid. The Alexandra community’s critical mental health needs place a strain on mothers and caregivers who struggle to overcome historically deficient and discriminatory systems.
The organization most importantly trains intern psychologists and psychotherapists, and also extends capacity by educating social workers, nurses, lay counsellors (directly from the community), teachers and clinic staff. The education emphasizes the transference relationship and the necessity of working beyond the surface. This psychoanalytically informed psycho-emotional support gives children, young people and their caregivers the capability to succeed in life and break inter-generational cycles of emotional poverty and mental health despair. Specific programs include the Ububele Umdlezane Parent-Infant Programs focusing on the first thousand days of life and the Therapy and Assessment Clinic which conducts psychoeducational assessments and psychotherapy services. The Baby Mat Project offers post-partum parent-infant interventions to address anxieties, fantasies, and processes underlying parenting issues with therapeutic modalities including holding, containment, and engaging with the infant-mother as subject.
The Ububele Trust’s teachings reach a wide audience through professional lectures, media, and consultation with interventionists from across the world seeking to implement similar interventions in their settings, such as Pakistan. Their Home Visiting Project captured international attention when Rose Palmer, UK journalist and PhD student, produced the film 1001 Days (named for the critical infant development period) pertaining to infant mental health interventions in South Africa. The organization has also had a significant presence at the World Association for Infant Mental Health conference, the American Zero to Three Fellowship Program, and the International Developmental Pediatrics Association.
“It is an absolute honor for Ububele to be recognized with such a prestigious award. It is most affirming and validating of the work that we do and its undeniable importance as well as the relevance of psychoanalytic practice in marginalized communities,” says Esther Chunga, Executive Director for the not-for-profit.
Winner Mark Solms in The News
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.
Find a video and full article here: https://www.thecollector.com/mark-solms-freud-surrealism-interview/
A Loss For Our Community
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.
His contributions to the practice of psychoanalysis will long be remembered and we share our condolences with his family, friends and colleagues.
Erikson Institute Hosts Guest Lecturer Daniel Pick
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).
On Oct. 18th, the group invites Sigourney Award-2023 recipient Daniel Pick, PhD to lead "Conspiracies? The 'Paranoid Style' revisited, in Psychoanalytic Thought, History, and Political Life."
Lectures are free and provide 1.5 continuing ed credits (see details available). Designed for mental health professionals, pre-registration is required at education.AustenRiggs.org.
Q&A with Winner Rosine Perelberg
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.
In this feature, Perelberg also shares that how, when president of the British Psychoanalytical Society during the pandemic, she helped guide protocols for virtual teaching and practice of psychoanalytic work.
Winners In The News
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.
Register for The British Psychoanalytical Society event for free. Event held at 8 p.m. (UK). Attend in person (register here) or via ZOOM (register here).
Recipients' Work Continues
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.
The Online Safety Act is now law in the UK and the government is currently undertaking an important review of the effects of online pornography. Read Lemma's reasoning regarding why clinicians should routinely ask patients about their consumption of online pornography.
Winner Jack Drescher in the News
On June 14th, 2022 Sigourney Award recipient Jack Drescher, MD, will moderate the IPS Journal Club, a project of the IPA Communications Committee.
Meeting 5-6 times in the academic year for 75 minutes, each meeting/webinar will be in English and feature a guest author. Register for free and participate!
https://www.ipa.world/ipa/en/IPA_Journal_Club/IPA_Journal_Club.aspx
Patricia Gherovici On Panel Discusssing "New Directions in Fashion Research"
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.
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.
The free event, “New Directions in Fashion Research,” will focus on new avenues of study in the interdisciplinary field of fashion.
First come, first-served so register early for the April 5th event: https://tinyurl.com/upz8w2vx
Winner Daniel Pick in the News
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.
Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control by Daniel Pick is the thought-provoking book and featured in two recent news items.
First, The Bunker podcast, a daily, independent politics podcast based in the UK, hosts an engaging discussion with Professor Pick focused on the history of brainwashing and its contemporary manifestations. TUNE IN for this 30-minute discussion here: https://listen.podmasters.uk/BNKR_230111_Brainwashing?at=1001l39LM
Secondly, in History Today based in the UK, explores “the seductions and delusions of mass media, consumerism, ‘group think’, advertising, opinion research and conspiracy theories” in this book review: Read:https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/think-about-it
Entry Period Opens for Applications or Nominations for The Sigourney Award-2024
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.
For more than three decades, The Sigourney Award has honored exceptional contributions to the field of psychoanalysis on a global scale. Mary Sigourney’s independent trust established an Award to acknowledge and foster the integration of psychoanalytic concepts across various disciplines.
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The Sigourney Award Trust Seeks Applicants and Nominations for The Sigourney Award-2024 to Recognize Outstanding Psychoanalytic Achievement Worldwide
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Eligible Work Submitted By Individuals, Teams or Organizations Can Earn International Recognition and a Substantial Cash Prize with The Sigourney Award-2024
San Francisco, CA — February 29, 2024 – The Sigourney Award Trust, founded by Mary Sigourney, annually honors individuals, teams and organizations with The Sigourney Award. This wholly independent prize recognizes outstanding work from around the world that has advanced psychoanalytic thought and principles. 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.
“Every year, we are impressed with the diversity and impact of work that applies and integrates the best of psychoanalytic principles to positively impact our world,” says Robin A. Deutsch, PhD, the Trust’s Analyst Trustee. “We are honored to have recognized stellar achievements that meet Mary Sigourney’s founding tenets, and we look forward to receiving this year’s applications from varied disciplines and across the globe.”
Since 1989, The Sigourney Award has presented 145 recipients from 22 countries with coveted professional recognition, international distinction, and a substantial cash prize. The independent award celebrates exceptional achievements by individuals, teams, or organizations whose work is innovative and promotes the understanding or evolution of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic principles. An anonymous panel of distinguished judges complete an unbiased and thorough evaluation of each completed submission before determining The Sigourney Award-2024 recipients.
Whether nominated or self-nominated, applicants must submit a comprehensive online application. To support and encourage international submissions, the application can be translated into more than 100 languages. Instructions and eligibility requirements for The Sigourney Award-2024 are available online. Applications will be accepted through July 31, 2024. The Sigourney Award-2024 recipients will be announced in November.
“We welcome entries for work based in both traditional and non-traditional psychoanalytic applications that positively impact the human experience. We look forward to honoring the recipients’ achievements from any place in the world,” says Michael J. Harrington, JD, Attorney Trustee.
Visit www.sigourneyaward.org for more information. Applicants who do not win are invited to enter again. Find updates via social platforms on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn @SigourneyAward, and Twitter @sigourney_the.
About The Sigourney Award
The Sigourney Award Trust, a wholly independent nonprofit organization established by Mary Sigourney in 1989, annually bestows The Sigourney Award as international recognition and reward for outstanding work that has advanced psychoanalytic principles. Ms. Sigourney was a psychotherapist, publisher, and community activist who had a passionate interest in psychoanalysis and understood its ability to benefit and extend human conversation across various disciplines. Since 1990, The Sigourney Award has rewarded and promoted outstanding work. To date, 145 Award recipients from 22 countries represent her global vision. Judges remain anonymous to ensure an unbiased and thorough evaluation practice. Work honored by The Sigourney Award has significantly contributed to human affairs on topics ranging from clinical psychoanalysis, neuroscience, feminism, and political oppression.
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Michael J. Harrington Appointed To Attorney Co-Trustee Role
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.
Most recently chairman and president of the First Republic Trust Company, Harrington has held executive and senior counsel roles leading trust teams at Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank. He has had an impressive career applying his legal expertise in estate planning and trust management to represent corporate and individual trustees in litigation and court proceedings. His legal and financial proficiency, complemented by his extensive connection with the mental health and psychoanalytic community, make him a fitting choice for the Trust.