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 »