2015 Schillinger Memorial Essay $1,000.00 Prize

Holding a psychoanalytic identity while navigating non-psychoanalytic communities  

Sponsored by:

Section V of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Psychoanalysis (Div. 39)

In keeping with our Section name, The Section for Applied Clinical Psychoanalysis, we invite you to explore the challenges that non-psychoanalytic communities pose when psychoanalysts work or interact in them. These communities could be professional or cultural; they may be familiar with or hostile to psychoanalytic thinking.  In these contexts, how does one maintain and integrate a psychoanalytic identity?  How does psychoanalytic thought become filtered through or inform other perspectives? What transformations, be they social, linguistic, or personal, must take place in order to communicate or apply psychoanalytic ideas within these different spaces?  What ruptures or mis-communications might take place, and how might they be addressed?  

The prize winning essay will be published in Division/Review

The winner will be announced in April 2015, and the prize awarded at the spring 2015

Division 39 Meeting.

Submission Guidelines: Essays should be no more than 15 double-spaced pages.  The contestant’s name and email should appear on the title page, but this identifying information should not be included in the body of the essay.

Deadline: February 1, 2015.

Submit electronic copies to: ruth@namgmt.com. Subject line: Section V Schillinger Essay Contest

Eligibility: All Division 39 members, associate members, & student members are eligible.

Questions: E-mail any questions to rprincephd@gmail.com