PLUMSOCK PRIZE


The Plumsock Prize of the New York Freudian Society

The Plumsock Prize of the New York Freudian Society was established in 1990 with the purpose of encouraging good writing on psychoanalytic topics by candidates and members of the Society. The Plumsock Fund awarded the Society a grant of $20,000 to provide continuing income for cash awards to the winners.

The Traditional Plumsock Prize is open to current candidates in the Training Institute and to graduates who have graduated within the previous five years. The Senior Plumsock Prize is available to any member of the Society who has never published, or had accepted for publication, a paper in a juried psychoanalytic journal.



Winners of the Traditional Plumsock Prize:

1991
Joel Whitebook, PhD: "No Longer Master, But Not Yet Homeless: The Autonomous Ego and the Recentered Subject."
- Published in 1992 in American Imago, 49.


1993
Phillida B. Rosnick, PhD: "The Imaginary Father."

Shelley Rockwell, PhD: "Reality and the Unconscious."
- Presented at a Scientific Meeting of the New York Freudian Society.
- Presented at Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association.


1995
1st Place - Stephanie Kiseluk, PhD: "The Disenchantment of Freud: Construction in the Case of Emmy von N."
- Published in Proof and Persuasion: Essays on Authority, Objectivity, and Evidence.

2nd Place - John Rosegrant, PhD: "The Anal World of a Six-Year-Old Boy."
- Published in 1995 in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 76: 1233-1243.


2000
1st Place - Kerry Malawista, CSW: "Conversion Symptoms and Psychoanalysis in a Second Language: Some Thoughts on Their Relationship in the Analysis of Mr. B."
- Presented in 2001 to the Washington Division of the New York Freudian Society
- Published in 2002 as "Conversion Symptoms and Psychoanalysis" in Psychoanalytic Social Work, 9 (1), 3-25.

2nd Place - Andrea Hadge, PhD: "A Report of an Unusual Case of Incest between a Mother and a Daughter."
- Presented in 2000 at the Annual Fall Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association
- Published in Round Robin in 2006.


2001
Geoff Goodman, PhD: "Mother's Object Representations and Internal Working Models of Their Children: Experts on Each Construct Agree on Their Conceptual Equivalence."


2002
Geoff Goodman, PhD: "Object Relations and Internal Working Models: A new Model for Understanding Their Structure and Function."


2003
Nancy Cromer Grayson, CSW: "The Opening and Closing of Doors: Chronic Syntonic Acting out."
- Presented in 2004 at the NMCOP Conference on Psychoanalysis: Changing in a Changing World, and at a MITPP Scientific Conference.


2006
Michael Krass, PhD: "Fear and Loathing on the Couch: The Intersection of Managed Care and Masochism."



Winners of the Senior Plumsock Prize:

1999
1st Place - Judith Lutzer, CSW: "Bloomsbury-Psychoanalytic Connection."

2nd Place - Frieda Plotkin, CSW: "The Impact of Treatment of the Older Patient on the Analyst."
- Published in 2000 in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 48:1591-1615, a special issue devoted to Psychic Development and the Life Cycle.

2nd Place - Nancy Wolf, CSW: "Thinking About Reverie in Bion's Model of the Mind.”
- Presented in 2001 at a Scientific Meeting of the New York Freudian Society.
- Presented in 2001 at a Scientific Meeting of the Karen Horney Institute.


2002
Michael Schur, PhD: "The Facts of Mind: Thoughts on the Taxonomy of Unconscious Fantasy with Special Reference to the 'New View' in Psychoanalysis."


2003
Ellen Sinkman, CSW: "The Creation of a Beautiful Self: Pygmalion on and off the Couch."
- Published in 2006 in Round Robin

Molly Jones-Quinn, PhD: "Chronic Genital Pain Serving as a Sadomasochistic Compromise Formation."



The Plumsock Prize Committee:

Edwin Fancher, Chair
Stephen F. Bauer
Harvey Kaplan
John Rosegrant
Shelley Rockwell
Edith Schwartz



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