This fund is used to award the $1000 biennial* prize to a CPS member whose paper is deemed to be the most meritorious by a jury constituted of three to four members of the Society. Deadline for submissions is February 28 in the year in which it is awarded.
*Biennial as of 2003
Recipients
2023
Oren Gozlan – “Gender in Deep Time”
2021
Suzanne Tremblay – « Écrire la psychanalyse: de l’écoute sensorielle à la plongée solitaire dans l’écriture. »
2019
Gilbert Levet – “Idolization and the Claustrum: An Extreme Case of Obsessional Neurosis”
2017
Cecilia Taiana – “Memory of the Process: The Role of Day’s Residues in the Field of the Session”
2015
Rosemarie Krausz – “Can We Transcend the Next Taboo? When the Analyst Avoids the Erotic Transference and Erotic Countertransference”
2013
Ely Garfinkle – “Shame”
2011
Rose Vasta – “The Negative Grid”
2009
Josette Garon – « Transmission de brûlants secrets : trauma, désaveu transgénérationnel et (re)construction en analyse ».
2007
Patrick Mahony – “Oedipus at the Crossroads of Conflict”
2005
Christian Godbout – « Comment ne pas céder sur les : Réflexions sur la capacité de survivre en analyse »
2003
Guy da Silva – “Confidentiality in Psychoanalysis: A Private Space for Creative Thinking and the Work of Transformation”
2001
Lorraine Boucher & Patrick J. Mahony, ex æquo
L. Boucher – « Un parent est battu »
P. Mahony – “Forepain & Porepleasure in an Enunciatory Perversion: A Countertransferential Ordeal”
2000
Ely Garfinkle – “Quid Pro Quo: The Inverse of Talion”
1999
Norman R. Doidge – “Diagnosing the Patient Within”
1998
Wilfrid Reid – « Plaidoyer pour la monadologie Freudienne ou pour en finir avec la légende d’un Winnicott anti-sexuel »
1997
Janice Halpern – “Freud’s Intrapsychic Use of the Jewish Culture & Religion”
1996
Craig Powell – “Rumpelstiltskin, or Being Available to Our Children”
1995
Patrick J. Mahony – “Psychoanalysis – The Writing Cure”
1994
Andrew Brook & Mireille Steinberg, ex æquo
A. Brook – “Schopenhauer and Freud”
M. Steinberg – “Transference-Countertransference Issues in Termination”
1993
Roger Dufresne & Brian M. Robertson / Mary E. Yack, ex æquo
R. Dufresne – « Psychanalyse de la douleur narcissique »
Robertson/Yack – “A Candidate Dreams of Her Patient: A Report & Some Observations”
1992
Donald Carveth & John O’Neil, ex æquo
D. Carveth – “In the Name of the Father: Language & Identity in Paris, Texas”
J. O’Neil – “Psychoanalysis & Scientificity: Popper & Grünbaum in Context”
1991
François Sirois – « Le rêve de séance »
1990
Douglas H. Frayn & Pierre Routier †, ex æquo
D. Frayn – “Archaic Transferences-A Regressive Manifestation of Primitive Personality Organization”
P. Routier † – « Si vous allez à Orvieto… »
1989
Edward Hanna & Jacques Le Beuf, ex æquo
E. Hanna – “The Relationship Between False Self-Compliance & the Motivation To Become A Professional Helper”
J. Le Beuf – « À propos…Quel était le projet scientifique de Freud en 1895 »
1988
Not awarded
1987
Noël Montgrain – « Les mots de la folie »
1986
Information not available
1985
Information not available
1984
Not awarded
…1983
Information not available
† Deceased