IPA Prizes and Awards

The IPA makes a number of awards at its biennial Congress. The following awards and prizes are scheduled to be given in July 2021 in Vancouver. 

Elise M. Hayman Award for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide

Purpose: 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.
Award: The award is US$4000 from 2009.  The Hayman family has granted authority to the Board to vary the value of the award depending on the financial performance of the Lectureship Fund.  The award value is reviewed prior to each Congress.
Submission and Eligibility: By papers sent in response to the call for entries for this Award, which may be submitted by Members, IPA Candidates or non-members.  Papers may be submitted in English, French, German or Spanish.
Deadline: 31st August 2020.
Selection: Entries for the award are judged by a committee comprising psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and academics from other relevant disciplines, selected by the Congress Programme Committee, and will take account of the languages of the entries.
Announcement and Presentation: The award is announced and presented, with a certificate, at the Congress. During the week of the Congress the winner gives the Elise M. Hayman lecture which is offered for publication to the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Hayman Prize for Published Work Pertaining to Traumatised Children and Adults

Purpose: This award, also funded by Dr Hayman, was set up in 1997.  The effects of the Holocaust upon adult survivors have led to significant impact upon the development of their children.  The effects upon children who were themselves interned in the camps have been less studied and the same is true for those children’s children. While some authors have recorded important clinical evidence of the trauma suffered by these children, further attention needs to be focused on the numerous areas of their functional development upon which Holocaust experiences have had impact, directly or indirectly. To encourage interest in this specific topic, and to make the need for increased knowledge of the topic more widely appreciated, a prize is offered to the author or authors of the best paper on this subject published (or accepted for publication) in a book or in a recognised psychoanalytic or other scientific journal during the two years preceding a biennial international Congress of the IPA.  The study of the nature and characteristics of massive trauma to children, of the influence upon their development and functioning, and on succeeding generations of their children, should be the central theme of such a work.  Preferably, the study should focus direction upon the subject population directly related to the Holocaust or should apply the understanding derived from Holocaust studies to the effects of massive trauma suffered by children living under repressive regimes elsewhere (for example, the children of the “disappeared” in Latin America).
Prize: The prize is US$4000 from 2009.  The Hayman family has granted authority to the Board to vary the value of the prize depending on the financial performance of the Lectureship Fund.  The prize value is reviewed prior to each Congress.
Submission and Eligibility: By submissions sent in response to the call for entries for this Prize, which may be submitted by Members, IPA Candidates or non-members.  Submissions should include the journal or book reference and a photocopy or offprint of the relevant paper.  They may be submitted in English, French, German or Spanish. Entries are limited to one per person and must be between 5,000 and 7,000 words in length.
Deadline: 31st August 2020.
Selection: Entries for the prize are judged by a committee comprising psychoanalysts, psychiatrists and others who are knowledgeable about the effects of trauma on younger generations.  This Committee will be chaired by the Chair of the IPA Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (COCAP) and the award committee will be selected by the Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, and will take account of the languages of the entries.
Announcement and Presentation: The prize is announced and presented, with a certificate, at the Congress, as well as in the relevant psychoanalytic journals.

Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contribution Awards

Purpose: The Research Committee of the IPA has set up an open biennial competition for the four best psychoanalytic research papers/posters to be submitted for the IPA’s biennial Congress from the three IPA Regions.  The competition is not restricted to empirical studies, however the submissions are expected to report the results of systematic investigation of relevance to psychoanalysis.  They may be in any field where psychoanalysis is relevant, such as the history of science, law, art, etc.
Award: The award is of US$500 for each of the four papers/posters.
Submission and Eligibility: By papers/posters sent in response to the call for entries for this Award, which may be submitted by Members, IPA Candidates or non-members.  Papers/posters may be submitted in English, French, German or Spanish.
Deadline: 31st August 2020.
Selection: Entries for the award are judged by the IPA Research Committee.
Announcement and Presentation: The prizes are announced and presented, with a certificate, at the Congress.

Psychoanalytic Training Today Award

Purpose: The IPA Education Committee in 2002 set up this award to recognize the best submitted paper on the study and development of psychoanalytic training models.
Award: The award carries no monetary value.
Deadline: 31st August 2020.
Submission and Eligibility: By papers sent in response to the call for entries for this Award, which may be submitted by Members, IPA Candidates or non-members.  Papers may be submitted in English, French, German or Spanish.
Selection: Entries for the Award are divided by IPA region, and judged in the first instance by members of the IPA’s Education Committee from the related region.  The three best papers from each IPA region are then judged by the whole Education Committee, which selects the winner and any runners up.
Announcement and Presentation: The award is announced and presented, with a certificate, at the Congress.

The Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Prejudice Award

Purpose: To increase awareness of the need to develop understanding of prejudice of various kinds within psychoanalysis and to honour the work of Dr. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl. Among other books, she wrote “The Anatomy of Prejudice” 1996, which addressed four kinds of prejudice. Her most recent book written just prior to her sudden and untimely death in 2011 was about another kind of prejudice “Childism”.
Award: The award will comprise a check for $500 donated by Dr. Christine Dunbar. This award will be given every two years at an IPA Congress. The prize will be awarded for a work (e.g. essay, article or video) which contributes to psychoanalytic understanding of prejudice. Prejudice can be defined as: an unfair and/or unreasonable feeling or dislike for a person or group because of race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, etc. Psychoanalytically, prejudice can have both conscious and unconscious meaning and expression.
Nomination and Eligibility: All members of the IPA and candidates will be eligible for this award. The IPA Board might wish to consider others outside the IPA membership (e.g. scholars, academics and related professionals – social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists) - who are interested in and knowledgeable about the relationship between psychoanalysis and prejudice. Submissions will demonstrate the meaning, effects and expression of prejudice through any personal production such as written material, a work of art or video and how this might be integrated into psychoanalytic theory and practice. Those submitting will indicate whether or not he or she intends to attend the Congress.
Deadline: 31st August 2020.
Selection: The winner of the award will be selected by the Prizes and Awards Nominating Committee, who will make its selection using such expert advisors as it deems necessary.
Announcement and Presentation: The award will be made at each IPA congress and presented by Dr. Christine Dunbar or her representative if she is unable to attend a specific Congress.

Sacerdoti Prize

Purpose: 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 the IPA International Congress for the first time.
Prize: The prize is UK£500.
Submission and Eligibility: By papers sent in response to the call for entries for the Congress, which may be submitted by Members, IPA Candidates or non-members, who specifically indicate that they wish their papers to be considered for this Prize.  Papers may be submitted in English, French, German or Spanish.
Deadline: 31st August 2020.
Selection: The prize-winning paper is selected by the Congress Programme Committee from the papers which are submitted for the scientific programme of the biennial IPA Congress.
Announcement and Presentation: The prize is announced and presented, with a certificate, at the Congress.

Tyson Prize

Purpose:  This prize, funded by Dr Robert L Tyson, dates from 2005.  It is awarded for the best unpublished clinical paper written by an IPA candidate in the two previous years.
Prize: The prize is US$500 for the winner in one region and US$250 for each finalist in each of the other two regions as determined by the selection panel.
Submission and Eligibility: By papers of no more than 5000 words sent in response to the call for entries for this Prize, which is restricted to IPA Candidates.  Papers may be submitted in English, French, German or Spanish.
Deadline: 31st August 2020.
Selection: Entries for the prize are judged by a panel selected and chaired by the Chair of the IPA Committee on Relations with IPSO, in consultation with the Committee, and will take account of the languages of the entries.  The panel shall consist of IPA members only.
Announcement and Presentation: The prizes are announced and presented by the President of IPSO, with a certificate at the Congress.

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