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Donations attributed to this fund are used to subsidise the biennial* $1000 prize given to a candidate whose paper is deemed to be most deserving by a jury formed by three to four CPS members. Deadline for submissions is February 28 in the year in which it is awarded.

*Biennial as of 2002

Recipients

2022

Summer Telio – “From ‘Certa’ to ‘Crita’: A Psychoanalytic Conversion Narrative; A Clinical Case Introduces Kleinian Metapsychological Vertices within Christian Practice and Shows an Animation of the Self through Maternal Eroticism”.

2020

Not awarded

2018

Cristian Melchiorre – “The Vessel of Secrets: Freud’s Geheimsprache and Intimacy in Psychoanalysis”

2016

Paul Steinberg – “Whipped Cream and Other Delights: A Reverie and Its Aftermath”

2014

Cecilia Taiana – “Mourning the Dead, Mourning the Disappeared: The Enigma of the Absent Presence”

2012

Barbara Burrows – “Being and Becoming an Analyst: Using the Barometer of Libidinal Connection in a First Control Case”

2010

Not awarded

2008

Suzanne Tremblay – “Une identité émerveillée”

2006

Elizabeth M. Wallace – “Ambivalent Mothers: The Very Last Taboo”

2004

Not awarded

2002

Michel Giguère – « La psychanalyse & l’épreuve de la douleur: Enjeux clinique & métapsychologiques »

2001

Christian Godbout – “The Economic Problem of Interpretation”

2000

Dianne Casoni – « Jamais deux sans trois. Esquisse pour la compréhension d’une névrose traumatique »

1999

Louis Brunet – « L’identification projective et la fonction contenante: Illusions nécessaires ou délire partagé »
Gabriela Legorreta – “Between an Ethereal and Earthly World : A Clinical Case”

1998

William Massicotte – “The Consulting Room: A Constellation of Silent Technical Issues”

1997

Dushyant Yajnik – “A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Sociopathic Imposters & People Who Feel Inauthentic-‘Neurotic’ Imposters”

1996

Not available

1995

Not available

1994

Not available

1993

Marc-André Bouchard – “Psychoanalytic Understanding As An Hermeneutical Process”

1992

Allannah Furlong – “Some Technical & Theoretical Considerations Regarding the Missed Session”

1991

Andrew Brook – “Freud and Splitting”

1990

Thomas David Gazda – “Discovery of A Childhood Trauma Repeated in the Analytic Process”

1989

Charles D. Levin – Thinking Through the Hungry Baby”

1988

Marike Finlay-deMonchy – “Quasi-Direct Discourse: Dialogical Strategy / Strategic Dialogue”

1987

Irwin Kleinman – “Death of the Training Analyst: Impact on Psychoanalytic Training”

1986

Carol Ann Munschauer – “The Patient Chase”

1985

Yolande Tanguay – « La ‘protopensée’: spirale ou point mort »

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