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As the “National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis” claims on its Internet website, their annual Gradiva Award is granted to authors of books and papers that rate highly on the following selection criteria: (1) the overall quality of the work; (2) the contribution of the work to the advancement of psychoanalysis as an independent profession; and (3) the work's ability to further the understanding of the field of psychoanalysis. In order to be nominated for the award by one of the judges on the award-granting panel, a submission must meet at least two of the three selection criteria. Gradiva Awards are granted to distinguished entries that have achieved all three criteria.
Peter L. Rudnytsky's “Reading Psychoanalysis. Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck” is one of three books that won the prize for the year 2002. This book, the latest of a series of books written or edited by Rudnytsky, makes valuable contributions to a wide range of disciplines: psychoanalysis, literary criticism, cultural history, gender studies, philosophy of science, and others. However, above all else, in its nine chapters, some of which have already