Awards

The Alexander Beller Award

The Alexander Beller Award, named in memory of our esteemed colleague to honor his unstinting commitment to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic education, is presented to candidates or recent graduates (within five years) of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in recognition of a significant scholarly study in the general area of psychoanalytic theory. Original contributions, scholarly reviews that furnish an integration of theory in a specific area, and clinical papers with significant focus on theoretical issues are considered.

Previous winners of the Alexander Beller Award

1981 Arnold Rothstein, MD
1982 Stanley Coen, MD
1984 Eugene Mahon, MD
1990 Lucy LaFarge, MD
1991 Elizabeth Auchincloss, MD
1992 Nathan Kravis, MD
1993 Arnold Wilson, PhD
1994 George Makari, MD
1995 Susan Vaughan, MD; Craig Tomlinson, MD
1996 Deborah Cabaniss, MD
1997 Andrew Lotterman, MD
2000 Yoram Yovell, MD
2001 Hilary Beattie, PhD
2002 Grace Caroline Barron, MD
2003 Justin Richardson, MD
2005 Andreas Kraebber, MD
2009 Wendy Katz, PhD
2010 John Burton, MD
2011 Susan Scheftel, PhD
2012 Sandra Park, MD
2013 Emily Gastelum, MD and Aerin Hyun, MD
2014 Luke Hadge, PhD
2015 Diana Moga, MD
2016 Jack Pula, MD
2017 Shabnam Bhojani, MD
2019 Timothy Rice, MD
2022 Nirav Soni, MD
2023 Bernadine H. Han, MD
2024 Adam R. Critchfield, MD and Christina Kitt Garza, MD

The John J. Weber Prize for Psychoanalytic Research

The Psychoanalytic Center offers a prize to candidates and graduates for an original research paper on a psychoanalytic topic. The John J. Weber Prize for Psychoanalytic Research is given periodically, but not more than once a year. The winner is selected by the members of the Research Committee.

Previous winners of the John J. Weber Prize for Psychoanalytic Research

1981 Sally Severino, MD
1983 Marvin Wasserman, MD
1986 Daniel Stern, MD
1988 Steven Roose, MD
1990 John Oldham, MD
1991 Eric Marcus, MD
1994 Samuel Perry, MD
1997 Susan Vaughan, MD
2000 Deborah Cabaniss, MD
2003 Eve Caligor, MD
2004 Sabrina Cherry, MD
2007 Bradley Peterson, MD
2008 Eric Fertuck, PhD
2009 Daniel Schechter, MD
2010 Andrew Gerber, MD, PhD
2011 Bret Rutherford, MD
2012 Fred Busch, MD
2013 Joel Sneed, PhD
2015 Tiziano Colibazzi, MD
2016 Barbara Milrod, MD
2017 Barry Stern, PhD
2019 Susan Coates, PhD
2020 Beatrice Beebe, PhD
2023 Sargam Mona Jain, MD
2024 Alexander H. Sheppe, MD

Creedmoor Teacher of the Year Award

The Creedmoor Psychiatric Center-Columbia Department of Psychiatry/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital residency education and training affiliation was established in 1982. A major component of this agreement is the Center's provision of teaching and psychotherapy supervision for Creedmoor residents. This award, in the form of a plaque established in 2010, is given by the Creedmoor Residency Graduating Class to the Center's faculty member who has contributed most to their education and training in psychodynamic theory and pracice. It is presented on behalf of the Creemoor residents at the Center's graduation Ceremony and Dinner in June.

Previous winners of the Creedmoor Teacher of the Year Award

2010 Elizabeth Haase, MD
2011 Leon Chattah, MD
2012 Alexander Lerman, MD
2013 Lauralyn Fredrickson, MD
2014 Ubaldo Leli, MD
2015 Judit Lendvay, MD
2016 Ubaldo Leli, MD
2017 Sherry Katz Bearnot, MD
2018 Estelle Bender, MD
2019 Susan C. Vaughan, MD
2020 Anand Desai, MD
2021 Anand Desai, MD
2022 Anand Desai, MD
2023 Yael Holoshitz, MD
2024 Carolyn J. Douglas, MD

The George S. Goldman Award

The annual George S. Goldman Award for Achievement in Clinical Psychoanalysis and/or Psychoanalytic Education is given in recognition of and encouragement to colleagues who bring a high level of skill to psychoanalytic practice and teaching. Candidates, graduates, and faculty members of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research are eligible for this award. The annual George S. Goldman Award of $500 and a scroll was conceived and funded by an anonymous donor in recognition of Dr. Goldman’s contributions to the teaching and practice of psychoanalysis.

Previous winners of the George S. Goldman Award

1985 Robert Michels, MD
1986 Helen Meyers, MD
1987 Richard Druss, MD
1988 Fred Lane, MD
1989 Roger MacKinnon, MD
1990 Henriette Klein, MD
1991 Robert Glick, MD
1992 Daniel Shaprio, MD
1993 Paul Bradlow, MD
1994 Mort Aronson, MD
1995 Gerald Fogel, MD
1996 Arnold Cooper, MD
1997 Donald Meyers, MD
1998 Bluma Swerdloff, DSW
1999 Milton Viederman, MD
2000 Raymond Bernick, MD
2001 Steven P. Roose, MD
2002 Gloria Stern, MD
2003 Eugene Friedberg, MD
2004 Stan Bone, MD
2005 Lisa Mellman, MD
2006 Marvin D. Wasserman, MD
2007 Herb Schlesinger, PhD
2008 Roy Schafer, PhD
2009 Elizabeth Auchincloss, MD
2010 Jonah Schein, MD
2011 Karen Gilmore, MD
2012 Otto Kernberg, MD
2013 Lucy LaFarge, MD
2014 Eve Caligor, MD
2015 Nathan Kravis, MD
2016 Stanley Coen, MD
2017 David Olds, MD
2018 George Makari, MD
2019 Lila Kalinich, MD
2020 Ellen Rees, MD
2021 Deborah L. Cabannis, MD
2022 Ruth Graver, MD
2023 Fredric Busch, MD
2024 Susan Coates, MD

The Howard Klar Teacher of the Year Award

The Howard Klar Teacher of the Year Award is presented annually at graduation to the outstanding teacher of candidates at the Psychoanalytic Center. The winner is chosen by the candidates each year. No teacher can win the award more than once every ten years. The Director serves as adviser to the committee. The prize carries an honorarium, an award, and the recipient’s name inscribed on a plaque in the Center Library.

Previous winners of the Howard Klar Teacher of the Year Award

1994 Helen Meyers, MD
1995 John Munder Ross, PhD
1996 Stanley Bone, MD
1997 Richard Druss, MD
1998 Elizabeth Auchinlcoss, MD
1999 Lila Kalinich, MD
2000 Ellen Rees, MD
2001 Gloria Stern, MD
2002 Lucy LaFarge, MD
2003 Eve Caligor, MD
2004 Karen Gilmore, MD
2005 Nathan Kravis, M.D
2006 Jeffrey Halpern, MD
2007 Deborah Cabaniss, MD
2008 Holly Schneier, MD
2009 Sharone Ornstein, MD
2010 Pamela Meersand, PhD
2011 Justin Richardson, MD
2012 Andrew Lotterman, MD
2013 Elizabeth Tillinghast, MD
2014 Kevin V. Kelly, MD
2015 Susan Vaughan, MD
2016 Ruth Graver, MD
2017 Vaia Tsolas, PhD
2018 Barry Stern, PhD
2019 Sandra Park, MD
2020 Natasha Chriss, MD
2021 Sharone Ornstein, MD
2022 Pamela Meersand, PhD
2023 Laura Whitman, MD
2024 Gila Ashtor, MD

The Lionel Ovesey Award

The Lionel Ovesey Award, begun in 1997, is given jointly by the Center and the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine to a candidate or recent graduate at the Psychoanalytic Center who was significantly involved in original research, made an important contribution to the psychoanalytic literature, or was the primary person responsible for developing an innovative teaching or treatment program that has psychodynamic theory of treatment as its primary component.

Previous winners of the Lionel Ovesey Award

1994 Helen Meyers, MD
1997 George Makari, MD
1998 Janis Cutler, MD
1999 Linda Mullen, MD
2001 Daniel Schechter, MD
2002 Sabrina Cherry, MD Elizabeth Tillinghast, M.D
2003 Eric Fertuck, PhD
2004 Justin Richardson, MD
2005 Sylvia Fogel, MD
2009 Brenda Berger, PhD
2010 Vaia Tsolas, MD
2011 Barry Stern, PhD
2012 Richard Hersh, MD
2013 Susan Scheftel, PhD
2014 David Schab, MD
2015 Jane Rosenthal, MD
2017 Sabrina Cherry, MD and Jane Halperin, PhD
2023 Timothy Rice, MD
2024 Sargam Mona Jain, MD and Aaron Reliford, MD

Public Communications Award

This award honors a faculty member or a candidate at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center who has effectively communicated in print, in online media, or in other forums, the value and importance of psychoanalysis. The purpose of the award is to encourage members of the Columbia community to spread the word about Columbia and psychoanalysis so that other professionals and the general public can better appreciate what psychoanalysis offers as a therapy and as a theory of mind.

Previous winners of the Public Communications Award

2015 Susan Scheftel, PhD
2016 Deborah Cabaniss, MD
2017 Joel Whitebook, PhD
2018 Alexandra Sacks, MD
2020 Brenda Berger, PhD
2022 Jack Drescher, MD
2023 Lisa K. Gornick, PhD
2024 Elena Lister, MD and Philip Lister, MD

Robert S. Liebert Award and Memorial Lecture

The Robert S. Liebert Award, established jointly by the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center and the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, honors the outstanding contributions of the late Robert S. Liebert to psychoanalysis in relation to the social sciences and the humanities. A scroll will be presented periodically (though not more often than biannually) to an individual in recognition of outstanding scholarship in the field of applied psychoanalysis. The format of the award will vary, but in most instances, it will occur in the context of a Liebert Memorial Lecture.

Previous winners of the Robert S. Liebert Award

1990 Milton Viederman, MD
1991 Ellen Handler Spitz, PhD
1993 Paul Schwaber, PhD
1995 Stuart Feder, MD
1997 Glen Gabbard, MD
1999 Peter Gay, PhD
2000 Robert Paul, PhD
2001 Katherine Dalsimer, PhD
2002 Meredith Anne Skura, PhD
2003 Salman Akhtar, MD
2004 Nancy Chodorow, P.D.
2006 Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD
2006 Jonathan Lear
2008 David Rosand, PhD
2009 Richard Rusbridgerr
2010 Vera Camden, PhD
2010 Sander Gilman, PhD
2011 Richard Kogan, MD
2014 Peter Dunn, MD
2015 Nathan Kravis, MD
2017 Anne Golomb Hoffman, PhD
2018 Adele Tutter, MD
2019 Diane O'Donoghue, PhD
2021 Alicia Christoff, PhD
2023 Ankhi Mukherjee, PhD

Sandor Rado Lectureship

The Sándor Radó Lectureship was initiated in 1957, shortly before Dr. Radó’s retirement, to commemorate his seminar of 16 two-hour lectures on advanced psychoanalytic technique he gave to the senior class in 1956. The Sándor Radó Lecture is given each year in the Spring at the Academy of Medicine in New York City and is funded jointly by the APM and the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center to honor the memory of Dr. Radó, the first Director of the Center. The lecture carries a $500 honorarium and expenses.

Previous winners of the Sandor Rado Lectureship

1957 Thomas French, MD
1958 Franz Alexander, MD
1959 Abram Kardiner, MD
1960 John Bowlby, MD
1961 David M. Levy, MD
1962 Edith Weigert, MD
1963 Michael Balint, MD
1964 Gardner Murphy, PhD
1965 George E. Daniels, MD
1966 I. Arthur Mirsky, MD
1967 George L. Engel, MD
1968 Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin, MD
1968 Rene Dubos, MD
1969 Peter Wolff, MD
1971 Joan Fleming, MD
1972 Phyllis Greenacre, MD
1973 B. Ruth Easser, MD
1974 Hans Loewald, MD
1975 Joseph Sandler, PhD
1976 Roy Schafer, PhD
1977 Edward M. Weinshel, MD
1978 Robert Holt, PhD
1979 John E. Gedo, MD
1981 Aaron Karush, MD
1982 Willard Gaylin, MD
1983 Lionel Ovesey, MD
1984 Otto F. Kernberg, MD
1985 Arnold Cooper, MD
1986 Robert Michels, MD
1987 Jacob Arlow, MD
1988 William I. Grossman, MD
1989 Anton O. Kris, MD
1990 Ethel S. Person, MD
1991 Theodore Shapiro, MD
1992 Arnold Goldberg, MD
1993 Herbert J. Schlesinger, PhD
1994 Helen C. Meyers, MD
1995 Robert Wallerstein, MD
1996 Daniel Stern, MD
1997 Paul Ornstein, MD
1998 Lawrence Inderbitzen, MD
1999 Judith Chused, MD
2000 Ann-Marie Sandler
2001 Jay Greenberg, PhD
2002 Robert A. Glick, MD
2003 Steven T. Levy, M.D
2004 Peter Fonagy, PhD
2005 Drew Westen, PhD
2006 Lucy LaFarge, MD
2007 George Makari, MD
2008 Myron Hofer, MD
2009 Eric Kandel, MD
2010 Robert Paul, PhD
2011 Lawrence Friedman, MD
2012 Warren Poland, M.D
2013 Mary Target, PhD
2014 Bonnie Litowitz, MD
2015 Eric R. Marcus, MD
2016 Rachel Blass, PhD
2017 Nancy Kulish, PhD
2018 Karen Gilmore, MD
2019 Mitchell Wilson, MD
2021 Dominique Scarfone, MD
2022 Adrienne Harris, PhD
2023 Howard B. Levine, MD
2024 Salman Akhtar, MD

The John F. O’Connor Award

The John F. O’Connor Award is given to the candidate or faculty member who has contributed the most to teaching psychodynamic concepts to medical students. It was established to commemorate Dr. O’Connor’s dedication to teaching medical students at Presbyterian Hospital and to reward those who are assuring psychoanalysis a secure future by teaching and serving as role models to aspiring physicians. The Director has been charged to appoint a faculty committee to select the recipient of the annual John F. O’Connor Award, which will be presented at the New Candidates Party in September. The award carries an honorarium.

Previous winners of the John F. O’Connor Award

1994 Ellen Peyser, MD
1995 Eric Marcus, MD
1996 Milton Viederman, MD
1997 Lyle Rosnick, MD
2001 Janis Cutler, MD
2002 Bruce Ballard, ,MD
2003 Margaret Hamilton, MD
2005 Elena Lister, MD, Phil Lister, MD
2006 Estelle Bender, MD
2007 Deborah Cabaniss, MD
2008 John Barnhill, MD
2009 Burton Lerner, MD
2010 Kevin Kelly, MD
2011 Ze'ev Levin, MD
2012 Stanley Bone, MD
2013 Vivian Pender, MD
2014 Jonathan Slater, MD
2015 Lisa Mellman, MD
2016 Judit Lendvay, MD
2018 Philip Muskin, MD
2019 Shirin Ali, MD
2021 Alyson Gorun, MD
2022 Christina Kitt Garza, MD
2023 Estelle P. Bender, MD
2024 Eric R. Marcus, MD and Lyle Rosnick, MD