In addition to his Role as psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Jorge Canestri specializes in linguistics and epistemology.

A renowned author and lecturer, editor and influential researcher of the history of psychoanalytic ideas, Dr. de Mijolla conceived and has directed and edited an authoritative Dictionnaire International de a Pysychanalyse in French and now in English.

Terttu Eskelionen de Folch, who was born in Finland, has made an outstanding contribution in the development of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Spain.

This is a joint award recognizing the joint contribution of “senior” (Thomä) and “junior” (Kächele) to the field of psychoanalysis. Both have made very important contributions.

Dr. Sverre Varvin’s work on human rights and his publications on ethnic cleansing and the psychology of refugees and torture victims is an extraordinary example of applied analysis to social issues.