The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis has announced that the winner of Judith Baskin Offer Prize for an original paper on the psychology of adolescence is Dr. Richard C. Marohn (Director, Adolescent Program, Illinois Mental Health Institutes, Chicago, Illinois). Dr. Marohn's paper is entitled “The Negative Transference in the Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents.”
The Judith Baskin Offer Prize was established in memory of Judith Offer by her family, to encourage those who share her deep concern with the understanding of adolescence and the treatment of emotionally disturbed young people. It is awarded to the author of an original, unpublished paper dealing with some aspect of the psychology of adolescence. Papers are judged for their clinical relevance, theoretical significance, and linkage to dynamic psychology.