IPA Awards and Prizes Winners Archive
The IPA makes a number of awards at its biennial Congress. On this page you will find a comprehensive list of all winners to date.
- The IPA's Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award
- Extraordinarily Meritorious Service to Psychoanalysis Award
- Extraordinarily Meritorious Service to the IPA Award
- The Distinguished Service Certificate
- Elise M. Hayman Award for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide
- Hayman Prize for Published Work Pertaining to Traumatised Children and Adults
- Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contribution Awards
- Psychoanalytic Training Today Award
- Sacerdoti Prize
- Ticho Foundation Lectureship Award
- Tyson Prize
The IPA's Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award
The Board, on the recommendation of the President, may confer the IPA's Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award upon either a member or a non-member who, in the judgement of the President, has made an outstanding contribution to the relationship between psychoanalysis and other fields.
2011
Madeleine Baranger, Argentina
R. Horacio Etchegoyen, Argentina
2009
Roy Schafer, USA
2007
André Green, France
2004
Antonio Damasio, USA
2001
Jorge Semprún, Spain
Extraordinarily Meritorious Service to Psychoanalysis Award
This award is for non-Members of the IPA who have given exceptionally meritorious service to psychoanalysis or the profession, including the promotion of psychoanalysis to the wider community.
2011
Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy
2007
Gerhard Fichtner, Germany
2005
Sérgio Paulo Rouanet, Brazil and John, Lord Alderdice, UK
Extraordinarily Meritorious Service to the IPA Award
From time to time the Board may confer this award of merit upon a deserving member of the IPA. This Award succeeds the Distinguished Service Certificate.
2007
David Iseman, Canada (posthumously)
2006
Eero Rechardt, Finland
2005
Paolo Fonda, Italy
Jerry Winer, USA
Sara Zac de Filc, Argentina
2004
Terttu Eskelinen de Folch, Spain
2001
Ethel Spector Person, USA
1999
David M. Sachs, USA
Inga Villarreal, Colombia Anne-Marie Sandler, UK
John S. Kafka, USA
Han Groen-Prakken, The Netherlands
The Distinguished Service Certificate
1997
Peter Gay, USA
Paul Ricoeur, France
1995
Vojin Matich, Serbia/Yugoslavia
1993
Joseph Sajner, Czechoslovakia (posthumously)
Elise M. Hayman Award for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide
The Elise M. Hayman Award was initiated in 1989 by Dr Max Hayman in memory of his wife, Elise. The award is made biennially for the most cogent, relevant and commendable work on the Holocaust, and genocide, current or historical.
2011
Mariano Horenstein, Argentina
2009
Eva Metzger Brown, USA
2007
Samuel Gerson, USA
2005
Ilany Kogan, Israel
2004
Dori Laub, USA
2001
Yolanda Gampel, Israel
1999
Henry Krystal, USA
1997
Janine Altounian, France
1995
Mortimer Ostow, USA
1993
Judith Kestenberg, USA
1991
Milton Jucovy, USA
1989
Susan Zucotti, USA
Hayman Prize for Published Work Pertaining to Traumatised Children and Adults
A second award, also funded by Dr Hayman, was set up in 1997. An award is made to the author or authors of the best paper on this subject published in a book or in a recognised psychoanalytic or other scientific journal during the two years preceding a biennial international Congress of the IPA.
2011
Martha Bragin, USA
2009
Ana Maria Chabalgoity Rodriguez, Uruguay
Susann Heenen-Wolff, Belgium
2007
Suzanne Kaplan, Sweden
David Rosenfeld, Argentina
2005
Margarita Díaz Cordal, Chile
2004
Marilu Pelento and Julia Braun, (both Argentina)
2001
Suzanne Kaplan, Sweden
1999
Hans Keilson, The Netherlands
Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contribution Awards
The Research Committee of the IPA set up an open biennial competition for the three best psychoanalytic research papers submitted to the IPA's Congress.
2011
Poster
Nora Hinojosa, Mexico
Elga Filipa Amorim Claro de Castro, Mexico
Linda Mayes, USA
2009
Jennifer Bonovitz, USA
Ruben Zukerfeld, Argentina
Patrick Luyten, Belgium
Nicole Vliegen, Belgium
Boudewijn Van Houdenhove, Belgium
Sidney J, Blatt, USA
Posters
Daniel S. Schechter, Switzerland
Aaron Reliford, USA
2007
Barbara Milrod, USA
Eric Smadja, France
Adela Leibovich de Duarte, Constanaza Duhalde, Guillermina Rutsztein, Flavia Torricelli, Vanina Huerin, Andrés Roussos (all Argentina)
Maria Cristina Amendoeira, Maria Helena Guimarães, Marialzira Perestrello, Marília de la Cal, Marly Alvares Dias, Myriam Fainguelernt, Sara Gang, Maria Regina Newlands Trotto (all Brazil)
2005
Daniel S. Schechter, Tammy Coots, Charles H. Zeanah, Jr., Susan W. Coates, Mark Davies, Michael M. Myers, Kimberly A. Trabka, Michael R. Liebowitz (all USA)
Silvia R Acosta, Colombia and Clara M. López Moreno, Argentina
Dorothea Huber and Guenther Klug (both Germany)
Research Poster Prize:
Clara R de Schejtman, Ines Vardy and Constanza Duhalde (all Argentina)
2004
Georg Bruns, Germany
Rubén and Raquel Zonis Zukerfeld (both Argentina)
Robin Gomolin, USA
Research Poster Prize:
Teresa Lartigue Becerra, Gerardo Casanova, Gerardo Vázquez, Martha Pérez Calderón, Héctor Avila-Rosas (all Mexico)
2001
Marina Altmann de Litvan and Sylvia Gril (both Uruguay)
Gyorgy Gergely and Orsolya Koos (both Hungary)
Marco Chiesa, UK
Psychoanalytic Training Today Award
The IPA Education Committee set up this award in 2002 to recognize the best submitted paper on the study and development of psychoanalytic training models.
2011
Winner: Rosella Sandri, Belgium
Runner-Up: Mira Erlich-Ginor
2009
Beatriz de Leon de Bernardi, Uruguay
Jutta Kahl-Popp, Germany
2007
Deborah Cabaniss, USA
Clara M. Lopez Moreno, Silvia R. Acosta (both Argentina)
2005
Ellen Rees, USA
Hillery Bosworth and Deborah Cabaniss (both USA)
2004
David Tuckett, UK
Stephen Sonnenberg and William Myerson (both USA)
Sacerdoti Prize
This prize, funded by Cesare Sacerdoti, previously of Karnac Books, dates from 1987. It is awarded for the best individual paper submitted by a relatively young author who is presenting a paper at an international congress for the first time.
2011
Galina Hristeva, Germany
2009
Analia Wald, Argentina
2007
Vaia Tsolas, USA
2005
Viviane Sprinz Mondrzak, Alice Becker Lewkowicz, Aldo Luiz Duarte, Anna Luiza Kauffmann, Eneida Iankilevich, Gisha Brodacz, Gustavo P. Soares and Luis Ernesto Pellanda (all Brazil)
2004
Daria Colombo, USA
2001
Hélène David, Canada
1999
Alicia N. Szapu de Altman, Argentina
1997
Michael I. Good, Max Day and Eve Rowell (all USA)
1995
Dana Birksted-Breen, UK
1993
Graciela Schust-Briat, France
1991
Rosine Jozef Perelberg, UK and Aloysio Augusto D'Abreu, Brazil
1989
Danielle Quinodoz, Switzerland
Ticho Foundation Lectureship Award
The Ticho Charitable Foundation Lectureship Award was initiated in 2006 in memory of Ernst and Gertrude Ticho. The award is made to inspire a mid-career analyst outside the USA (where a separate Ticho Award exists) to achieve more and to invest more time in psychoanalytic research and teaching.
2009
Winner: Susana Vinocur Fischbein, Argentina
Runner-Up: Mauro Manica, Italy
2007
Winner: Noemi Lustgarten de Canteros, Argentina
Runner-Up: Louise Gyler, Australia
Tyson Prize
This prize, funded by Dr Robert L Tyson, dates from 2005. It is awarded for the best published or unpublished clinical paper written by a person undertaking psychoanalytic training in the two previous years.
2011
Winner: Ana Daniela Linciano, Italy
Runners -Up:
Alejandro Beltrán
Demian Ruvinsky, Spain
2009
Winner: Tracey Simon, USA
Runner-Up: Hana Salaam Abdel-Malek, Lebanon and Gabriela Mustri Misrahi, Mexico
2007
Martha Bragin, USA
2005
Susanne Chassay, USA