Dr. Patricia Gherovici, originally from Argentina, had the opportunity to highlight her work with transgender individuals in Filo.News, an Argentinian publication. Within the article’s Q&A, Dr. Gherovici articulates how she believes psychoanalysis can serve marginalized communities and so many others.
Read MoreAnother fine example of work deserving of The Sigourney Award-2020, Dr. Anton Kris’ work bringing the Sigmund Freud archives to the public domain promises access for generations to come. The article he wrote prior to his passing about this work and more, is shared in Psychiatric Times.
Read MoreWe are deeply saddened by the loss of Dr. Anton Kris (1934 - 2021).
Alumni publications are important in our community and the Harvard Medical School News picked up Dr. Anton Kris’ announcement after his work won The Sigourney Award-2020.
He is a Harvard Medical School professor of psychiatry, part-time, a psychoanalyst, a training and supervising analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and a past executive director of the Sigmund Freud Archives.
Read MoreElda Storck, president of SAPA, shares the impact of the non-profit’s work which earned The Sigourney Award-2020 in the Psychiatric Times. SAPA successfully established the first psychoanalytic society accredited by the International Psychoanalytical Association on the African continent and helped deconstruct racist barriers within psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical training.
Read MoreDr. Patricia Gherovici’s award-winning work with marginalized communities began with Latinx and expanded to include gender and sexual variant people. She shares insights into her work in a Psychiatric Times video.
Read MoreDr. Heli Morales’ award-winning work with psychoanalytical listening clinics and training programs was recently shared with millions via Mexico’s media, El Economista, Reforma, and El Norte.
Read MoreOn Feb. 16, past Sigourney Award winner, psychoanalyst & neuropsychologist Mark Solms releases a new book, The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness.
Read MoreThe Sigourney Award-2020 honors four recipients with distinguished independent prize for advancing psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic thought. Judges select psychoanalytic work with Impact from Mexico, South Africa and the United States.
Read MorePsychoanalyst Patricia Gherovici’s work with Latinx and nonconforming gender people earns The Sigourney Award-2020 prize for psychoanalytic achievement. Dr. Gherovici’s work in the US earns the independent prize recognizing contributions to advancing psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic thought alongside work from Mexico and South Africa.
Read MoreWork by Harvard professor of psychiatry Dr. Anton Oscar Kris wins The Sigourney Award-2020 prize for psychoanalytic achievement worldwide. Dr. Kris’ work guiding The Sigmund Freud Archives into the public domain wins The Sigourney Award-2020 alongside exceptional work from Mexico, South Africa and the USA.
Read MoreMexico City psychoanalyst Helí Rafael Morales Ascencio wins the Sigourney award-2020 prize for psychoanalytic achievement. Dr. Morales’ pioneering work provides treatment for those who have previously had little or no access to psychoanalytic care in Mexico and is recognized alongside award-winning work from South Africa and the United States.
Read MoreSouth African Psychoanalytical Association wins The Sigourney Award-2020 for work enhancing access to psychoanalysis across all economic and demographic boundaries in South Africa. SAPA’s work dramatically increased the reach of psychoanalytic thought and psychoanalysis for people with histories of apartheid, racism, and trauma in South Africa, and earns prestigious prize along with award-winning work from Mexico and the United States.
Read MoreWe’re happy to find our prestigious winners in the news, and our Italian colleagues feature Roosevelt Cassorla in this podcast today. Congratulations, Dr. Cassorla!
Read MoreClick to view the FEPAL manifesto video, including past Sigourney Award winners!
Read MoreSee an excerpt from the Psychiatric Times interview with William A. Myerson, PhD, MBA.
Read MoreThe Sigourney Award honors four recipients with distinguished independent prize for advancing psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic thought. Recipients from Argentina, Germany, Norway, and the United States take home The Sigourney Award 2019.
Read MoreSiri Gullestad’s work has profoundly impacted the evolution and acceptance of psychoanalysis as a scientific discipline in Norway. A researcher, theoretician, educator and a powerful public voice, Gullestad developed a highly innovative psychoanalytic theory that was applied to both university training and clinical treatment. A well-respected spokesperson for psychoanalysis, she is skillful at communicating the relevance of unconscious conflict and fantasy to the general public
Read MoreDr. Henri Parens’ innovative research work focused on a psychoanalytic approach to the understanding and treatment of aggression. Working with caregiver/children dyads, Dr. Parens and his colleagues documented their hypothesis that caregivers could be taught optimal ways to handle the emergence of aggression in children and this approach could improve the children’s lives. Dr. Parens and his colleagues used real life moments to help teach parents and caregivers how to respond in ways that would enhance their children’s emotional development. Focusing on the caregiver’s role in shaping the child’s capacity to manage their own aggression and teaching caregivers new ways of responding at moments of real urgency between caregiver and child, Dr. Parens is able to teach new and alternative ways to handle aggression.
Read MoreDr. Rodolfo Moguillansky’s work has played a pivotal role in developing and expanding psychoanalysis in Argentina and throughout Latin America. While serving as rector of the Instituto Universitario De Salud Mental de APdeBA (IUSAM), Dr. Moguillansky helped lead efforts to attain full academic accreditation for the university’s psychoanalytic training program. Built on the International Psychoanalytic Association’s tripartite training model, the University’s fully accredited program has helped solidify psychoanalysis’ position as a legitimize area of study in Latin America and has attracted students from across South America.
Read MoreA not-for-profit charity organization, Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities (PCCA) is unique in its location of pain and guilt within the group, rather than in the individual. While PCCA is a community-based psychoanalytic and social welfare enterprise led by psychanalysts from various countries, it also attracts and recruits many non-analysts. PCCA seeks to positively impact the residual effects of trauma and atrocities on individuals, communities, and national groups. PCCA represents the extension and application of psychoanalysis to the sphere of social reality and offers a fruitful way of dealing with large scale trauma, beginning with the Holocaust and extending to other atrocities, victims and perpetrators.
Read MoreHonoring Psychoanalytic Achievement Worldwide
