First Prize: $1000

The essay should not be more than 30 pages in length and should not have been published or submitted for publication. The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center Essay Prize is open to anyone living or working in the State of Ohio, regardless of institutional status or affiliation.

Applicants are requested to include their name on the cover letter only. Judges are blinded to authors' names. The winning essay will be presented at a meeting of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center and we will support publication in a psychoanalytic journal.

Entries are due July 31, 2016

Essays should be electronically submitted to: dmorsecpc@sbcglobal.net with title: "Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center Essay Prize"

Essay Prize Committee

Ingrid Geerken, Ph.D., Murray Goldstone, M.D., Laura Hengehold, Ph.D.

 

Previous Winning Essays

• 2009 - "The Lack of Sources: Or, What Reading Lacan Can Teach Us about Academic Writing", T. Kenny Fountain, Ph.D.
• 2010 - "Clinging to Love, Loving to Cling-Race and Sexuality in James Baldwin's Another  Country", Bryan Conn, Ph.D.
• 2011 - "Evolution of Traumatic Narratives: Impact of the Holocaust on Three Children of Survivors," Nanette Auerhahn, Ph.D.
• 2012 - "Notes on Art, Loss, and Nationalism under Political Oppression: Josef Sudek - Angel with a Missing Wing",  Adele Tutter, M.D., Ph.D. 
• 2013 - "A Consulting Room of heir Own: Film Representations of Psychotherapy Between a Female Clinician and a Female Patient in the Contexts of Second-Wave Feminism", Beth Ash, Ph.D.
• 2014 - No prize awarded.
• 2015 - "Dehiscence and Discussion" - David I. Backer, Ph.D.

Our thanks to Drs. Anna and Tom Janicki for making this prize possible.

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