Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities’ unique and groundbreaking approach is highly significant in its application of psychoanalysis to traumatized populations for the public good. 

Leuzinger-Bohleber, is director in charge of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut in Frankfurt a.M., Germany, professor em. for psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel.

Dr. Bohleber has devoted much of his considerable energy to a particular range of topics: trauma in both the individual and wider social sense, terrorism, right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism, and the consequences of the particular history with the Nazi era of German National Socialism.

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. Ilse Grubrich-Simities’ original and thought-provoking work created a broader and more nuanced understanding of Freud’s contributions. She meticulously analyzed the history of psychoanalytic thinking, particularly the early developments of Freud’s ideas.