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The Editors are pleased to announce that the Michael Fordham prize for the best paper relating to clinical issues published in 1998 in the Journal has been awarded to:
Hester McFarland Solomon, MA, MSc.
for her paper:
‘The self in transformation: the passage from a two- to a three-dimensional internal world’
The paper appeared in the April 1998 issue of the Journal, and the ‘Abstract’ reads as follows:
This paper seeks to describe some of the steps in the process of transformation from a two-dimensional to a three-dimensional inner world as experienced by a patient who had essentially used up her remaining vital resources.
An important hurdle had first to be crossed when the analyst was required to demonstrate her capacity to survive with her in a two-dimensional claustrum, in a solitary confinement. Here, an oppositional defensive system had been created in which positive and negative personifications of vital but withdrawn energies ensured that she was locked within an interior world that sought to bar entry to anyone else, and where the possibility of the transformation of her self was disallowed. The patient had to accept the risk of breaching the system of self-defence before the analyst was allowed a mutual position within her interior world.
A series of dreams tracks this transformation internally and in relation to the analyst.
Submissions are now invited for the 1999 prize, which should reach the Editors by 1 March 1999. For further details, please contact the Administrative Editor of the JAP, 1 Daleham Gardens, London NW 3 5 BY