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Past Winners of the CORST Essay Prize

(Established in 1997)

2011 Marcelo Zigaran
"Music as an Expression of a Drive"
2010 Ellen Schattschneider, Ph.D.
"The Fetish Goes to War: Disavowal and the Family Romance in Modern Japan" 
2009 Dawn Skorczewski, Ph.D.
"You, I, we created the poet": Anne Sexton's Recorded Therapy Sessions"
2008 Elise Miller, Ph.D.
"Whose Subject?: What Literary Authors Can Teach Clinicians Who Write About Patients"
2007 Elise Miller, Ph.D.
"Narrating Trauma: Autobiography and Healing"
2006 Kevin Groark, Ph.D.
"Placing the Self: Dreaming, Discourse, and Disavowed Volition among the Tzotzil Maya of Highland Chiapas, Mexico"
2005 George Mashour, M.D., Ph.D.
"Toward a General Theory of Unconscious Processes in Psychoanalysis and Anesthesiology"
2004 Naomi Janowitz, Ph.D., Professor of Religious Studies at UC Davis
"Lusting for Death: Some Unconscious Meanings of Martyrdom Traditions"
2003 Anne C. Dailey
"Psychoanalysis and the Ideal of Reasoned Deliberation in Constitutional Law"
2002 Diane O'Donoghue, Ph.D
"Negotiations of Surface: Archeology Within the Early Strata of Psychoanalysis"
2001 Tammy Clewell, Ph.D.
"Mourning Beyond Melancholia: Freud's Psychoanalysis of Loss"
2000 Joseph Aguayo, Ph.D.
"The Patronal Background of Melanie Klein's Work and Interpretations of Anna and Sigmund Freud's Conceptualizations of the Child, 1914-1932"
1999 Laura Mandell, Ph.D.
"Melancholia's Cure or Resurrection by Poetry"
1998 Norman Doidge M.D.
"Diagnosing The English Patient: Contributions to Understanding"
1997 Janice Coco Ph.D.
"Exploring the Frontier from the Inside Out"