New Writer Prize 2022

It is a great pleasure to announce that Eva Chaska Uchitel Tesch is the winner of the 2022 New Writer Prize. She is a psychology graduate based in Brazil, who also has a Master's degree in sports management from the University of Porto, Portugal. For twenty years she coordinated the development of groups in public and private institutions, notably in connection with sports, bringing a psychoanalytic ear to her practice. More recently she has deepened her studies and worked as a couple and family therapist. Her winning paper is titled “What “family’ is this? Link, bonds, and intersubjectivity in online family therapy” and appears in the forthcoming issue of the journal.

The New Writer Prize was established in 2020 to mark the tenth anniversary of the journal and the stepping down of Molly Ludlam as its inaugural editor. Its purpose is to encourage practitioners in couple and family psychotherapy to write about and publish their work. Students and qualified clinicians, who have not previously published an article, chapter, or book in the field of couple and family psychotherapy, are invited to submit original papers on theoretical, clinical, or research aspects of psychoanalytically informed work with couples and families. Entries are judged by a panel of senior clinicians on their clinical and theoretical merit, with particular attention being paid to their innovative qualities and capacity to advance thinking and practice in the field. This is what the awards panel said about the entry:

This well-structured submission had many remarkable features. Our interest was caught by the extensive and compelling clinical material. We were immediately engaged by the author's refreshing spirit of curiosity about whose suffering she was being asked to address, and by her spontaneous capacity to adapt to limitations. Of necessity, time-limited family therapy had to be restricted to online meetings using a mobile device, though in this regard, the author discusses, with impressive