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The Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Award, honoring persons who have made significant contributions to knowledge of the etiology, nature, or therapy of schizophrenia, has been conferred on Dr. Arieti by the American Academy of Psychoanalysis.
Dr. Arieti is the author of Interpretation of Schizophrenia (Brunner, 1955). In addition to his clinical and theoretical works in that area, he has engaged in intensive study of creativity and has stressed the importance of cognition in psychodynamics. His latest book is The Intrapsychic Self; Feeling, Cognition, and Creativity in Health and Mental Illness (Basic Books, 1967). He is the editor of the American Handbook of Psychiatry (Basic Books, 1959 and 1966).
The Group for the Advancement of Psychotherapy of Milan, Italy, conferred its Gold Medal Award on Dr. Arieti in 1964.
He is a past president of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society.
The statement that follows was made at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis in Boston on May 11, 1968 following the presentation of the Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Award by the president of the Academy, Dr. Harold Lief.
FROM THAT COLD NIGHT of January 11, 1939, when I kissed my mother and father goodbye and escaped from Mussolini's hordes, to today, few if any have been the moments in my life equal in significance to the one, just passed, in which I received from the President of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis the Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Award.