Psychodynamic Psychiatry Journal Prize Announcement 2020-2021

Every two years, Psychodynamic Psychiatry, the journal of the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, awards a Journal Prize for the best article published during the preceding two years. For the years 2020-2021 we are proud to announce that the Journal Prize has been awarded to Douglas Ingram, M.D., and Kimberly R. Best, M.D., for their distinguished papers, “The Psychodynamic Psychiatrist and Psychiatric Care in the Era of COVID-19” (Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 48[3], 234-258) and “Five Months Later: The Psychodynamic Psychiatrist and Psychiatric Care in the Era of COVID-19” (Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 48[4], 363-391). The prize of $2,500 will be divided by the two authors.

Douglas H. Ingram, M.D., Editor of The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychiatry (2001-2011), is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York Medical College. He graduated from Columbia College with a B.A. in 1964. He attended New York University School of Medicine, completing his studies in 1968, following which he accepted a medical internship and psychiatry residency at

St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in New York City. During his residency he matriculated at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, founded by the psychoanalytic culturalist Karen Horney in 1941. Completing his studies, he eventually became Medical Director of the Karen Horney Clinic and Dean of its Institute. He served as Editor of the affiliated journal, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, from 1991 to 2000. The following year he was elected editor of the Journal of the Academy where he also had served as President from 1997 to 1998. A member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association, he is the author of nearly 60 peer-reviewed papers spanning a variety of topics in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychiatry. He is the editor of Final Lectures by Karen H