Past Winners of the Award for Excellence in Journalism

(Established in 1999)

2012	Rachel Aviv, Harper's Magazine, for "This Way Madness Lies: Can Psychosis be Prevented?" which appeared in the December 2010 issue.
2011	Molly Knight Raskin, Scientific American Mind magazine for "When Passion is the Enemy" which appeared in the July 2010 issue.
2010	Daphne Merkin, New York Times Magazine, for "A Journey Through Darkness" which appeared in the May 10, 2009 issue.
2009	Laurie Abraham, New York Times Magazine, for "Can This Marriage be Saved?" which appeared in the August 12, 2007 issue
2008	Elizabeth Bernstein, The Wall Street Journal, for "After A Suicide, Privacy on Trial -- A jury weighs whether Chuck Mahoney's college should have told his parents more" which appeared in the March 24, 2007 issue
2007	Jerry Adler, Claudia Kalb, and Anne Underwood – Newsweek cover story, March 27, 2006 Special Recognition: Joan Arehart-Treichel - Psychiatry News, for the quality of her coverage of psychoanalysis and of APsaA's Winter Meetings Carl Sherman - Clinical Psychiatry News, for the quality of his coverage over the years of psychoanalysis and of APsaA's Winter Meetings
2006	Alix Spiegel, The New Yorker, for The Dictionary of Disorder" which appeared in the January 3, 2005 issue.
2005	Erica Goode, The New York Times, for "And Still Echoes of A Death Long Past", on October 28. 2003
2004	Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, U.S. News & World Report, for "Sigmund Freud: The Father of Modern Psychoanalysis Transformed Our Understanding of Ourselves and of Each Other" which appeared in a special edition of U.S. News and World Report, entitled "Secrets of Genius: Three Minds That Shaped the Twentieth Century" in the spring/summer 2003. This volume also included essays on Albert Einstein and Karl Marx. Special Recognition: Joshua Kendall, freelance journalist for the Boston Globe, for the article "Managed care tried to kill off Freud", February 9, 2003
2003	Margaret Talbot, The New York Times Magazine cover story, "Hysteria, Hysteria", June 2, 2002
2001	Wynne Godley, London Review, for "Saving Masud Khan", February 22, 2001 Diana Sugg, The Baltimore Sun, for "Paths Diverge in Struggle to Prevent Youth Suicides", April 29, 2001
2000	Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, "The Empty Couch: What is Lost When Psychiatry Turns to Drugs," May 8, 2000
1999	Prior to the formal establishment of the Award for Excellence in Journalism, Wall Street Journal senior editor Carol Hymowitz was honored in 1999 with the Award for Distinguished Contribution for her coverage of medical privacy issues