In Their Own Words

Each Year’s Recipients Tell a Story

Videos highlighting The Sigourney Award recipients work since 2020, showcase how psychoanalysis and the application of psychoanalytic principles across disciplines can transform the human experience for the better. Our hope is to inspire conversations in the world of psychoanalysis and beyond, while enhancing the impact winners’ work may have within communities around the world.

How Literature Can Heal and Novel Methodologies for Addressing Collective Trauma

How Literature Can Heal and Novel Methodologies for Addressing Collective Trauma

Integrating Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice to Improve Parent-Infant Relationships

Integrating Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice to Improve Parent-Infant Relationships

Exploring the Theories of Freud and LaPlanche, Novel Concepts are Revealed, Dominique Scarfone

Exploring the Theories of Freud and LaPlanche, Novel Concepts are Revealed, Dominique Scarfone

Community-Based Psychoanalytic Education Improves Parent-Child Attachment Locally and Globally

Community-Based Psychoanalytic Education Improves Parent-Child Attachment Locally and Globally

Incorporating LGBTQ+ Knowledge into Mainstream Practice

Incorporating LGBTQ+ Knowledge into Mainstream Practice

Reframing the Feminine, Sexuality, and the Holocaust Across Disciplines

Reframing the Feminine, Sexuality, and the Holocaust Across Disciplines

Mobilizing Psychoanalytic Thought and Fresh Historical Perspectives to Understand the Present

Mobilizing Psychoanalytic Thought and Fresh Historical Perspectives to Understand the Present

Influencing and Inspiring Changes to Psychoanalytic Curriculum to Include the Feminine, Women, and Children

Influencing and Inspiring Changes to Psychoanalytic Curriculum to Include the Feminine, Women, and Children

Transforming Difficult Concepts to Meet Modern Psychoanalytic Needs

Transforming Difficult Concepts to Meet Modern Psychoanalytic Needs

Changing Psychoanalytic Approaches Toward Gender and Sexual Orientation

Changing Psychoanalytic Approaches Toward Gender and Sexual Orientation

Illuminating Therapeutic and Institutional Approaches to Race, Equity & Social Justice

Illuminating Therapeutic and Institutional Approaches to Race, Equity & Social Justice

Facing Youth’s Contemporary Mental Health Issues & Increasing Access to Care

Facing Youth’s Contemporary Mental Health Issues & Increasing Access to Care

Beyond Words: How Neurosomatic Systems Impact Parent-Child Relationships & So Much More

Beyond Words: How Neurosomatic Systems Impact Parent-Child Relationships & So Much More

Confronting Societal Problems to Alleviate Individual and Community Suffering

Confronting Societal Problems to Alleviate Individual and Community Suffering

Traversing Traditions and Culture in China, Russia, and Beyond

Traversing Traditions and Culture in China, Russia, and Beyond

Connecting What the Analyst Hears and What the Dermatologist Sees

Connecting What the Analyst Hears and What the Dermatologist Sees

Illuminating How Race, Trans and Queer Studies Intersects Problematically with Psychoanalysis

Illuminating How Race, Trans and Queer Studies Intersects Problematically with Psychoanalysis

Sustaining and Growing Freud’s Theories in an Age that has Misunderstood and Challenged Freud’s Relevance

Sustaining and Growing Freud’s Theories in an Age that has Misunderstood and Challenged Freud’s Relevance

Pioneering Work to Bring Psychoanalysis to Low-Income People and Those Affected by Violence

Pioneering Work to Bring Psychoanalysis to Low-Income People and Those Affected by Violence

Overcoming Systemic Racial and Economic Obstacles, SAPA Graduates “homegrown” Psychoanalysts

Overcoming Systemic Racial and Economic Obstacles, SAPA Graduates “homegrown” Psychoanalysts

Giving Psychoanalysis a Voice in Norway

Giving Psychoanalysis a Voice in Norway

Reducing Childhood Aggression Starts with Caregivers

Reducing Childhood Aggression Starts with Caregivers

Developing and Expanding Psychoanalysis Throughout Latin America

Developing and Expanding Psychoanalysis Throughout Latin America

Confronting Personal Trauma in a Group

Confronting Personal Trauma in a Group