IPA Awards and Prizes
These Awards were presented in July 2025 at the IPA's 54th Congress in Lisbon, Portugal.
IPA Award and Prize Winners 2025
Extraordinarily Meritorious Service to Psychoanalysis Award
Siri Hustvedt
(non member)
The Extraordinarily Meritorious Service to Psychoanalysis Award is conferred upon a deserving recipient for exceptionally meritorious service to psychoanalysis or the profession, including the promotion of psychoanalysis to the wider community.
Extraordinarily Meritorious Service to the IPA Award
Mark Solms
(British Psychoanalytical Society)
The Extraordinarily Meritorious Service to the IPA Award is conferred upon a deserving member for exceptionally meritorious service to the IPA.
Outstanding Scientific Achievement
Gilbert Wallace Kliman
(American Psychoanalytic Association)
The Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award is the most prestigious IPA award and is conferred upon either a member or a non-member who has made an outstanding contribution to the relationship between psychoanalysis and other fields.
The Elizabeth Young-Bruehl Prejudice Award
Nilofer Kaul
(Indian Psychoanalytical Society)
Project: Psychoanalysis in the Colony: Of Mimicry, Camouflage, and Native Informants
Elise M. Hayman Award for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide
Jan Borowicz
(Polish Psychoanalytical Society Institute)
“We need to forget about what we actually did not even see here”. On Perverse Denial in Polish Memory of the Holocaust.
Elise M. Hayman Award for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide
Jose Ricardo Sahovaler
(Argentine Psychoanalytic Association)
De Genocidios y Fanatismos (On Genocide and Fanaticism: On the individual responsibility of subjects)
Hayman Prize for Published Work Pertaining to Traumatized Children and Adults
Silvia Elena Leguizamon
(Argentine Psychoanalytic Association)
El analista entre la escucha y la comprensión en casos de migración por situaciones traumáticas graves.
Hayman Prize for Published Work Pertaining to Traumatized Children and Adults
Dana Amir
(Israel Psychoanalytic Society)
From Mind-Deadness to Mindedness, From Collaboration to Cooperation.
Psychoanalytic Training Today Award
Rut Graver
(American Psychoanalytic Assoc.)
Robert Glick
(non member - APsA)
Gloria Stern
(non member - APsA)
Sharone Ornstein
(American Psychoanalytic Assoc.)
Deborah Cabaniss
(American Psychoanalytic Assoc.)
Jane Halperin
(American Psychoanalytic Assoc.)
Justin Richardson
(American Psychoanalytic Assoc.)
Susan Vaughan
(American Psychoanalytic Assoc.)
Sabrina Cherry
(American Psychoanalytic Assoc.)
The Columbia Academy for Psychoanalytic Educators: A Pilot Program for Developing Analysts and Supervisors of Analytic Candidates
Psychoanalytic Training Today Award (Honorary mention)
Cecilia Teodora Rodríguez
(Guadalajara Psychoanalytic Association)
Transformaciones dentro de los Modelos de Formación Psicoanalítica y la incidencia de los movimientos institucionales en el contexto actual
Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contribution Awards
Nilofer Kaul
(Indian Psychoanalytical Society)
Psychoanalysis in the Colony: On Mimicry, Camouflage and Native informants
Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contribution Awards
Simon Kempe
(German Psychoanalytical Society)
Werner Köpp
(German Psychoanalytical Society)
Lutz Wittmann
(non member)
Personality Functioning Improvement during Psychotherapy Is Associated with an Enhanced Capacity for Affect Regulation in Dreams: A Preliminary Study
Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contribution Awards
Alexandre Martins de Melo
(Brazilian Psychoanalytical Society of Ribeirao Preto)
Mauro Campos Balieiro
(Institute of the Ribeirao Preto Society)
Adriana Salvitti
(Institute of the Ribeirao Preto Society)
Alessandra Teobaldo Stocche
(Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of Ribeirao Preto)
Ana Valéria Guelli Ribeiro
(Institute of the Ribeirao Preto Society)
Psychoanalytic training in times of chaos: teleanalysis as an anchor.
Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contribution Awards
Robert Gordon
(non member - Institute for Advanced Psychological Training)
An Empirical Study of Gauging Political Leadership: Comparing Trump, Putin and Zelenskyy
Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contribution Awards (Honorary Mention)
Barbara Saegesser
(Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis)
Psychoanalytic Work in East Africa
Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contribution Awards (Honorary Mention)
Ruben Zukerfeld
(Argentine Psychoanalytic Society)
Raquel Zonis Zukerfeld
(Argentine Psychoanalytic Society)
Modelo de investigación psicoanalítica sobre las vicisitudes frente a la adversidad :de la vulnerabilidad a la resiliencia
Tiresias Award (S&GDSco) $500 and certificate
Chiara Buoncristiani (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)
Tommaso Romani (Italian Psychoanalytical Society
A political phantom behind a gender trouble
Tiresias Award (S&GDSco)
Sam Guzzardi
(non member)
Toward a Horizon of Potential: Longing, Phobia, and Queerness in Psychoanalysis and Beyond
International New Groups Committee Award
Kai-Ting Chen (Taiwan Psychoanalytical Society)
On not being able to be loved