Applications open for Sigourney Award

Award Information

• Award
  • Recipients receive a substantial cash award.
  • The award amount of the award varies each year based on a number of variables, including the annual number of recipients and tax requirements.
  • Recipients may use their award in any manner they choose.
• Recognition
  • Join a remarkable group of prize Recipients.
  • Awards are announced to the global psychoanalytic community.
  • Recipients are listed on The Sigourney Award website with a photo and an overview of their work.
  • Awards are also announced on LinkedIn, Facebook, and other web-based forums.
  • A press release announcing annual Recipients is distributed to press, professional groups, and each Award Recipient.

Applicant Categories

• There are three application categories: individual, team, or organization. Each category describes how the work being submitted for the award was produced. All Applicants must complete an application, including those who have been nominated
  • Individual –  work conducted by a sole individual.
  • Team – work conducted by a group of individuals, or a committee within an organization.
  • Organization – work conducted for or by a for-profit or not-for-profit organization.

Who is Eligible?

• Organizations, teams, and individuals from all regions, across the globe are eligible for the Award.
• Applicants whose work represents a significant contribution to psychoanalysis and/or psychoanalytic principles, over 10 years preceding the award year. Proposed work or work still in progress is not eligible.
• Applicants whose work uses psychoanalytic principles to transform the human experience for the better, and/or
• Applicants whose work applies psychoanalytic principles beyond psychoanalysis, including but not limited to art, journalism, medicine, science, and social justice
• Previous applicants who do not win are encouraged to apply again for work completed within the 10-years prior to the Award year.

Who is not Eligible?

• Applicants may not be currently serving or have served during the preceding year as an officer of any national or international psychoanalytic association.
• Applicants may not be currently serving or have served as a Trustee of The Sigourney Award Trust.
• Past Award Recipients are not eligible to submit applications in future award years.
• Applicants whose artistic work nominated pushes beyond conventional boundaries of contemporary psychoanalytic theory or practice and has influenced or increased awareness of psychoanalytic thought or principles in unconventional ways.

Assessment Criteria

• Work will be assessed in terms of one or more of these criteria:
  • enriching psychoanalytic thought, techniques, applications, practices, or institutions
  • enhancing the cultural and social impact of psychoanalysis
  • facilitating collaborations or dialogues between psychoanalysis and another discipline
  • creating work in any form of art that resonates with or casts a new light upon psychoanalysis, in any of its aspects
  • expanding the reach of psychoanalytic principles, treatment, or thought generally, or in a specific region, group, or cultural context
  • increasing positive public awareness of psychoanalytic principles

For more information, visit The Sigourney Award.