Dana Amir, PhD, 2025
Professor Amir’s pioneering work has brought a novel and sophisticated perspective to the study of how trauma is conveyed in language and her research has become a vital tool for both therapeutic and broader social interventions.
Calibán, Latin American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2025
Calibán, the official journal of the Psychoanalytic Federation of Latin America (FEPAL), is a stunning and engaging international journal that has cultivated both critical thinking and cultural expansion within the psychoanalytic community.
Siri Hustvedt, PhD, 2025
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, 2025
Brilliantly curated and edited, ROOM is a global and free digital forum and platform that has illuminated and forged new connections between psychoanalysis and the most pressing social, political, and cultural issues facing the contemporary world.
Merav Roth, PhD, 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.”
Björn Salomonsson, MD and Assoc. Prof., 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.
Dominique Scarfone, MD, 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.
The Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust, 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.
Vittorio Lingiardi, MD, 2023
Professor Vittorio Lingiardi’s pioneering work in psychodynamic diagnosis and LGBTQ+ issues demonstrates an ability to bridge the gap between the richness and complexity of psychoanalytical clinical practice and the need for empirical soundness.
Rosine Perelberg, PhD, 2023
Professor Rosine Perelberg’s open-minded work coalesces psychoanalytic thought and social anthropology expertise to offer a forward-looking framework for the understanding of temporality, sexuality, and antisemitism.
Daniel Pick, PhD, 2023
Professor Daniel Pick’s engaging and interdisciplinary work has investigated how psychoanalytic thought has been mobilized to face some of the most dire political challenges of modern times.
Virginia Ungar, MD, 2023
Dr. Virginia Ungar’s leading-edge work in “the feminine,” and in child, adolescent, and adult analysis, coupled with her leadership achievements in transforming current and future psychoanalytic training have significantly impacted the future of psychoanalysis.
Giuseppe Civitarese, PhD, 2022
Dr. Civitarese’s innovative award-winning work has primarily focused on such themes as elaboration of Bion’s thought, the development of post-Bionian models and analytic field theory. His work extended Bion’s reformulation of the concept of “hallucinosis” in a way that deciphers and transforms this difficult Bionian concept into comprehensible psychoanalytic technique.
Jack Drescher, MD, 2022
Dr. Drescher’s pioneering award-winning work in the areas of gender and sexuality has brought innovation to psychoanalytic treatment and theory--specifically, major, critical re-thinking based on solid scientific evidence and what is actually known rather than outdated assumptions about gender and sexuality.
Dorothy Holmes, PhD, 2022
Dr. Holmes’ groundbreaking work examined race within psychoanalysis, observing that race is an essential lens for psychoanalytic understanding because racism has endemic intrapsychic and cultural effects, including traumatic ones.
Alessandra Lemma, D. Clin. Psych, 2022
Professor Lemma’s inventive theoretical and clinical contributions address contemporary issues such as body modifications, transgender identities, and the impact of new digital technologies on the mind and body, especially applied in youth mental health.
Edward Tronick, PhD, 2022
Dr. Tronick’s seminal work focused on the concept of repair of relational disruptions as a major change process in psychological development and the healing of psychological illness, elaborating on his original model of mutual regulation.
Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center, 2021
The nonprofit Erikson Institute’s award-winning work demonstrates a commitment to, and investment in providing public and professional education about psychoanalysis as a clinical discipline and an applied theory for understanding human experience.
David Scharff, MD and Jill Savege Scharff, MD, 2021
The award-winning work of Drs. David Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff adapts psychoanalysis for those far from a psychoanalytic center and educating analysts to address remote treatment needs.
Jorge Claudio Ulnik, MD, PhD, 2021
Dr. Jorge Ulnik’s award-winning work focused on psychosomatic and psychodermatology exemplifies efforts to address the mind-body relationship from a psychoanalytic perspective.