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The Canadian Psychoanalytic Society’s Citation of Merit recognizes distinguished and enduring contributions by members to their profession. Three principal areas of contribution and leadership are considered in bestowing this important award. Recipients are recognized for their substantial achievements in at least one of these key areas:

  • Long-standing and dedicated service to the administration of the national organization and its branches;
  • Significant achievement in the scientific field of psychoanalysis reflected in a record of outstanding scholarship;
  • Major contributions to the practice of psychoanalysis through teaching, service and clinical leadership that has greatly enhanced the professional identity of psychoanalysis in Canada.

The following guidelines apply:

  • Each member is entitled to nominate one colleague per year for the Citation of Merit.
  • Nominations must be submitted by individual members only, and not by Branches.
  • Each nomination requires endorsement by nine other members, for a total of TEN nominators. The nominator needs only to list those members who have agreed to stand in support of the nomination.

Deadline for submissions is April 30 in the year in which it is awarded.

Recipients

2023

Ellen Corin
Mary Kay O’Neil

2020

Louis Brunet

2019

Founding Members of the Western Branch of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and Western Psychoanalytic Society Institute

2018

Andrew Brook

2017

Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick-Hanley
Martin Gauthier

2016

Joyce Canfield
Michel Grignon

2015

Donald Carveth
Angela Sheppard

2014

David Schaffelburg

2013

Dominique Scarfone

2012

Not awarded

2011

Not awarded

2010

Not awarded

2009

Arthur Sheldon Leonoff

2008

Not awarded

2007

Ronald D. Brown
Charles M.T. Hanly

2006

Not awarded

2005

Not awarded

2004

†Douglas H. Frayn
Lise Monette

2003

†Samuel Stein

2002

Brian M. Robertson

2001

Paul Lefebvre

2000

Carlos R. Featherston
André Lussier

1999

D. Ray Freebury
†Eva P. Lester

1998

(Inception of Prize)

Roger Dufresne
†Henry Kravitz
James Naiman

† Deceased

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