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Past Winners of the JAPA Prize

2010 Mari Ruti, Ph.D. for her paper “The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within” published in JAPA 58:6
2009 Eve Caligor, M.D., Diana Diamond, Ph.D., Frank E. Yeomans, M.D., Ph.D., and Otto F. Kernberg, M.D. for their paper “The Interpretive Process in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Borderline Personality Pathology” published in JAPA 57:2
2008 Joel Whitebook, Ph.D. for his paper “Hans Loewald, Psychoanalysis, and the Project of Autonomy” published in JAPA 56:4
Ruth Stein, Ph.D. for her paper “The Otherness of Sexuality: Excess” published in JAPA 56:1
2007 Irwin C. Rosen, Ph.D. for his paper “Revenge--The Hate that Dare Not Speak its Name: A Psychoanalytic Perspective” published in JAPA 55:2
2006 Jeanine M. Vivona, Ph.D. for her paper “From Developmental Metaphor to Developmental Model: The Shrinking Role of Language in the Talking Cure,” published in JAPA 54:3
2005 Melvin R. Lansky, M.D. for his paper “The Impossibility of Forgiveness: Shame Fantasies as Instigators of Vengefulness in Euripides’ Medea”
2004 Leon Wurmser, M.D.  – for his book essay "Psychoanalytic Reflections on 9/11, Terrorism, and Genocidal Prejudice: Roots and Sequels"
2003 Rosemary H. Balsam – “The Vanished Pregnant Body in Psychoanalytic Female Developmental Theory"
Richard M. Gottlieb – “Psychosomatic Medicine: the Divergent Legacies of Freud and Janet”
Mitchell Wilson – “The Analyst's Desire and the Problem of Narcissistic Resistances”
2002 Bonnie Litowitz— "Sexuality and Textuality"
Warren Poland—"The Interpretive Attitude"
2001 Rosemary Balsam— "The Integration of Female and Male Identification in a Woman's Gender Identity"
Henry F. Smith—"Hearing Voices: The Fate of the Analyst's Identifications."
2000 Arnold Goldberg, M.D. – “Between Empathy and Judgment”
1999 Mary Main — "The Organized Categories of Infant, Child, and Adult Attachment: Flexible vs. Inflexible Attention Under Attachment-Related Stress"
Erik Hesse and Mary Main — "Disorganized Infant, Child, and Adult Attachment: Collapse in Behavioral and Attentional Strategies"
1998 Arnold Goldberg, M.D.— "Between Empathy and Judgment" (1997)
Philip S. Wong— "Anxiety, Signal Anxiety, and Unconscious Anticipation: Neuroscientific Evidence for an Unconscious Signal Functions in Humans." (1997)
1997 Jennifer I. Downey and Richard C. Friedman— "Female Homosexuality: Classical Psychoanalytic Theory Reconsidered”
1996 George J. Makari —Dora's Hysteria and the Maturation of Sigmund Freud's Transference Theory: A New Historical Interpretation
Barry Opatow —"The Real Unconscious: Psychoanalysis as a Theory of Consciousness"
1995 Peter Fonay and Mary Target— "Predictors of Outcome in Child Psychoanalysis: A Retrospective of 763 Cases at the Anna Freud Center (44/1)
Judith A. Yanof: —"Language, Communication, and Transference in Child Analysis: I. Selective Mutism: The Medium is the Message; II. Is Child Analysis Really Analysis"
(44/1)
1992 Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., Miriam Steele, Ph.D., George Moran, Ph.D., Howard Steele, Ph.D. and Anna Higgitt, M.D.—"Measuring the Ghost in the Nursery:  An Empirical Study of the Relation between Parents' Mental Representations of Childhood Experiences and Their Infants' Security by Attachment," 41 (1993)
1991 Linda A. Wimer Brakel, M.D.—"Shall Drawing Become Part of Free Association?: A Proposal for a Modification in Psychoanalytic Technique," 41 (1993)
Robert B. Clyman, M.D.—"The Procedural Organization of Emotions:  A Contribution from Cognitive Science to the Psychoanalytic Theory of Therapeutic Action," 39 (Suppl., 1991)
1990 Philip Rubovits-Seitz, M.D.—"Interpretive Methodology:  Some Problems, Limitations, and Remedial Strategies," 40 (1992)
1989 Enrico E. Jones, Ph.D. and Michael Windholz, Ph.D.—"The Psychoanalytic Case Study: Toward a New Method of Systematic Inquiry," 38 (1990)
1988 Steven H. Cooper, Ph.D.—"Recent Contributions to the Theory of Defense Mechanisms: A Comparative View," 37 (1989)
1987 Steven T. Levy, M.D. and Lawrence B. Inderbitzin, M.D.—"Negativism and Countertransference," 37 (1989)
Linda A. Wimer Brakel, M.D.—"Understanding Negative Hallucination:  Toward a Developmental Classification of Disturbances in Reality Awareness," 37 (1989)
1986 Marsha Cavell, Ph.D.—"Interpretation, Psychoanalysis, and the Philosophy of Mind," 36 (1988)
1985 Evelyne Albrecht Schwaber, M.D.—"Reconstruction and Perceptual Experience: Further Thoughts on Psychoanalytic Listening," 34 (1986)
Gail Reed, Ph.D.—"Rules of Clinical Understanding in Classical Psychoanalysis and in Self Psychology," 35 (1987)
1984 Axel Hoffer, M.D.—"Toward a Definition of Psychoanalytic Neutrality," 33 (1985)
Philip S. Holzman, Ph.D.—"Psychoanalysis:  Is the Therapy Destroying the Science?" 33 (1985)
1983 Jacob A. Arlow, M.D.—"The Concept of Psychic Reality and Related Problems," 33 (1985)
Margaret S. Mahler, Sc.D. (Med.) and John B. Devitt, M.D.—"Thoughts on the Emergence of the Sense of Self, with Particular Emphasis on the Body Self," 30 (1982)
1982 Robert N. Emde, M.D.—"From Adolescence to Midlife:  Remodeling the Structure of Adult Development," 33 (1985)
1981 Judith F. Chused, M.D.—"The Role of Analytic Neutrality in the Use of the Child Analyst as a New Object," 30 (1982)
Leo Stone, M.D.—"Notes on the Noninterpretive Elements in the Psychoanalytic Situation and Process," 29 (1981)
Leo Rangell, M.D.—"From Insight to Change," 29 (1981)
1980 Jeffrey Andresen, M.D.—"Rapunzel:  The Symbolism of the Cutting of Hair," 28 (1980)
Hans W. Loewald, M.D.—"The Waning of the Oedipus Complex," 27 (1979)
1979 Mark Kanzer, M.D.—"Object Relations Theory:  An Introduction," 27 (1979)
Annemarie P. Weil, M.D.—"Maturational Variations in Genetic-Dynamic Issues," 26 (1978)