One of the highlights of the annual meeting in Boston this past June was the presentation of Association awards. Excellence in teaching, psychoanalytic scholarship, community service, writing, and outstanding service to the organization were recognized.
Ethel Spector Person was awarded the National Woman Psychoanalytic Scholar Award. Brenda Solomon presented the award, noting that Person's long and distinguished career in practice, writing, and scholarship has expanded and extended psychoanalytic understanding.
The Third Annual Psychoanalytic Community Service Clinic of the Year Award was given to the Herbert Schiele Treatment Service of the Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. Nathan Simon accepted the award on behalf of the clinic.
Honorable mention in Distinguished Psychoanalytic Clinical Service to the Community was awarded to the Child Development Center of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute. Mary Scharold accepted the award for the institute. These clinics, chosen for honors by the Committee on Community Clinics, are exemplary models of the interaction of psychoanalysis in a larger community.
The 2002 JAPA Awards for excellence in psychoanalytic scholarship and distinguished contributions to the journal went to Warren S. Poland and Bonnie Litowitz. Poland's award, for his paper “The Interpretive Attitude,” was presented by Rosemary Balsam. She and Paul Schwaber will succeed Poland as editors of JAPA's book section. Litowitz's award, for “Sexuality and Textuality,” was presented by Steven T. Levy, editor-elect of JAPA.
Other awards for outstanding service:
Steven T. Levy, who is stepping down as chair of CORST, was presented with a certificate for service.
Stephanie Dee Smith, who finished her term as the first chair of the Joint Committee on Graduate Education, was presented with a certificate for her six-year tenure on that committee.
Phyllis Jean Cath, who completed her term as co-chair of the Liaison Committee to Schools, was presented a certificate of recognition for six years of outstanding work with that committee.
The Awards ceremony, though a small part of the meeting overall, demonstrated the vitality of the scholarship, service, and interaction with the outside community that is helping to keep psychoanalysis in the public eye.
Jack A. Miller, M.D., is a member of TAP's editorial board.