The Sigourney Award
@sigourneyaward.bsky.social
Honoring Outstanding Psychoanalytic Work Worldwide. The Trust honors the expansion and connection of psychoanalysis to many fields of study and experience through The Sigourney Award.
Today we spotlight one of four recipients recently recognized with The Sigourney Award-2025, Dana Amir, PhD (Haifa, Israel). Her pioneering work has brought a novel and sophisticated perspective to the study of how trauma is conveyed in language. Read: tinyurl.com/4sv84ty3
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Today we spotlight one of four recipients recently recognized with The Sigourney Award-2025, Dana Amir, PhD (Haifa, Israel). Her pioneering work has brought a novel and sophisticated perspective to the study of how trauma is conveyed in language. Read: tinyurl.com/4sv84ty3
Parabéns aos vencedores do The Sigourney Award-2025:(ordem alfabética, superior esquerdo no sentido horário): Dana Amir, PhD (Israel); Calibán, Latin American Journal of Psychoanalysis (Uruguai); Siri Hustvedt, PhD (EUA); e SALA: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action (EUA) Detalhes: sigourneyaward.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Parabéns aos vencedores do The Sigourney Award-2025:(ordem alfabética, superior esquerdo no sentido horário): Dana Amir, PhD (Israel); Calibán, Latin American Journal of Psychoanalysis (Uruguai); Siri Hustvedt, PhD (EUA); e SALA: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action (EUA) Detalhes: sigourneyaward.org
Felicitaciones a los ganadores del Premio Sigourney-2025: Dana Amir, PhD (Israel); Calibán, Latin American Journal of Psychoanalysis (Uruguay); Siri Hustvedt, PhD (USA); y ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action (USA). Detalles: www.sigourneyaward.org.
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Felicitaciones a los ganadores del Premio Sigourney-2025: Dana Amir, PhD (Israel); Calibán, Latin American Journal of Psychoanalysis (Uruguay); Siri Hustvedt, PhD (USA); y ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action (USA). Detalles: www.sigourneyaward.org.
Congratulations to The Sigourney Award-2025 recipients: Dana Amir, PhD (Israel); Calibán, Latin American Journal of Psychoanalysis (Uruguay); Siri Hustvedt, PhD (USA); and ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action (USA). (Alphabetical order, top left clockwise) Details: www.sigourneyaward.org.
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Congratulations to The Sigourney Award-2025 recipients: Dana Amir, PhD (Israel); Calibán, Latin American Journal of Psychoanalysis (Uruguay); Siri Hustvedt, PhD (USA); and ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action (USA). (Alphabetical order, top left clockwise) Details: www.sigourneyaward.org.
Where will your eyes be focused next Tuesday? HERE, we hope. We’ll announce this year’s recipients of The Sigourney Award-2025.
You can also watch www.sigourneyaward.org for complete summaries of the trailblazing work recognized. The countdown begins now!
You can also watch www.sigourneyaward.org for complete summaries of the trailblazing work recognized. The countdown begins now!
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Where will your eyes be focused next Tuesday? HERE, we hope. We’ll announce this year’s recipients of The Sigourney Award-2025.
You can also watch www.sigourneyaward.org for complete summaries of the trailblazing work recognized. The countdown begins now!
You can also watch www.sigourneyaward.org for complete summaries of the trailblazing work recognized. The countdown begins now!
Could Chatbots be addictive? This writer for Psychiatric Times poses the “parallels between drug dependence and chatbot dependence” and raises attention about the potential impacts on mental health while offering recommendations for addressing the challenge.
Read: tinyurl.com/4w8btxhn
Read: tinyurl.com/4w8btxhn
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Could Chatbots be addictive? This writer for Psychiatric Times poses the “parallels between drug dependence and chatbot dependence” and raises attention about the potential impacts on mental health while offering recommendations for addressing the challenge.
Read: tinyurl.com/4w8btxhn
Read: tinyurl.com/4w8btxhn
Fall has officially arrived and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a real thing. This @mens-fitness.bsky.social feature offers five doctor-approved tips to stay energized and help prevent seasonal depression. Read: tinyurl.com/2pspptzc
#sad #seasonalaffectivedisorder #Tips
#sad #seasonalaffectivedisorder #Tips
October 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Fall has officially arrived and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a real thing. This @mens-fitness.bsky.social feature offers five doctor-approved tips to stay energized and help prevent seasonal depression. Read: tinyurl.com/2pspptzc
#sad #seasonalaffectivedisorder #Tips
#sad #seasonalaffectivedisorder #Tips
This Psychiatric Times panel discusses “the vital but often underutilized role of psychotherapy in schizophrenia treatment." Watch the video presentation here: tinyurl.com/4v3eazf9 #psychiatrictimes
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This Psychiatric Times panel discusses “the vital but often underutilized role of psychotherapy in schizophrenia treatment." Watch the video presentation here: tinyurl.com/4v3eazf9 #psychiatrictimes
The @timesofindianews.bsky.social shares an interesting observation about how social media algorithm is impacting mental health and why there is a need for legal oversight. Good read: tinyurl.com/mv2227y4
#socialmedia #algorithm #IndiaNews #mentalhealth
#socialmedia #algorithm #IndiaNews #mentalhealth
October 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The @timesofindianews.bsky.social shares an interesting observation about how social media algorithm is impacting mental health and why there is a need for legal oversight. Good read: tinyurl.com/mv2227y4
#socialmedia #algorithm #IndiaNews #mentalhealth
#socialmedia #algorithm #IndiaNews #mentalhealth
In 2021, Sigourney Award-2020 recipient & current Advisory Committee Member, Dr. Heli Morales Ascencio, shared with @PsychiatricTimes how psychoanalysis can address a painful dimension of trauma happening in Mexico and LATAM. Read: tinyurl.com/bdzj88th
#ThrowbackThursday
#ThrowbackThursday
October 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
In 2021, Sigourney Award-2020 recipient & current Advisory Committee Member, Dr. Heli Morales Ascencio, shared with @PsychiatricTimes how psychoanalysis can address a painful dimension of trauma happening in Mexico and LATAM. Read: tinyurl.com/bdzj88th
#ThrowbackThursday
#ThrowbackThursday
Laughter therapy is no joke. Laughter yoga originated in India in 1995 under Dr. Madan Kataria, and one woman's experience with the practice inspired her to leave her old life to teach. Now her students call her the "Joy Queen." Read this @womanandhome.bsky.social story at tinyurl.com/39f8yzvd
October 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Laughter therapy is no joke. Laughter yoga originated in India in 1995 under Dr. Madan Kataria, and one woman's experience with the practice inspired her to leave her old life to teach. Now her students call her the "Joy Queen." Read this @womanandhome.bsky.social story at tinyurl.com/39f8yzvd
For #WorldMentalHealthDay, the World Health Organization's campaign focuses on the migrants & refugees facing multiple challenges throughout their journey - raising awareness for the need to support mental health/psychosocial needs of those affected by humanitarian emergencies. tinyurl.com/mr37b9r7
October 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
For #WorldMentalHealthDay, the World Health Organization's campaign focuses on the migrants & refugees facing multiple challenges throughout their journey - raising awareness for the need to support mental health/psychosocial needs of those affected by humanitarian emergencies. tinyurl.com/mr37b9r7
Next month we’ll share with the world The Sigourney Award-2025 recipients. Each recipients’ work has an opportunity to gain visibility through the news. Today we share a Psychiatric Times' Q&A with leaders of the Ububele Educational & Psychotherapy Trust based in South Africa. tinyurl.com/2pa46yjx
October 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Next month we’ll share with the world The Sigourney Award-2025 recipients. Each recipients’ work has an opportunity to gain visibility through the news. Today we share a Psychiatric Times' Q&A with leaders of the Ububele Educational & Psychotherapy Trust based in South Africa. tinyurl.com/2pa46yjx
This @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social story shares how Montfort Hospital's Mental Health Emergency Zone, a separate ER room to help care for Ottawa’s higher-than-average percentage of mental health emergency patients, helps “stabilize patients in a mental health crisis." tinyurl.com/3stksxcb
October 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social story shares how Montfort Hospital's Mental Health Emergency Zone, a separate ER room to help care for Ottawa’s higher-than-average percentage of mental health emergency patients, helps “stabilize patients in a mental health crisis." tinyurl.com/3stksxcb
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a serious matter and one therapist identifies the top online therapy treatments in this @verywellmindset.bsky.social list.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/5dtfnw36
Learn more: tinyurl.com/5dtfnw36
September 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a serious matter and one therapist identifies the top online therapy treatments in this @verywellmindset.bsky.social list.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/5dtfnw36
Learn more: tinyurl.com/5dtfnw36
A focus by@e-flux on Art and Theory presents Hugo Münsterberg’s 1915 essay, "Why We Go to the Movies." Called “a pioneering psychological analysis of cinema's unique appeal," it's worth a read: tinyurl.com/muuh5hvk
September 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
A focus by@e-flux on Art and Theory presents Hugo Münsterberg’s 1915 essay, "Why We Go to the Movies." Called “a pioneering psychological analysis of cinema's unique appeal," it's worth a read: tinyurl.com/muuh5hvk
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness month around the world. In England on 9/27 one man will run 50 miles to Trafalgar Square in London to benefit Baton of Hope, a charity focused on suicide prevention and mental health awareness. Read: @basingstokegazette.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/5m9fm6de
tinyurl.com/5m9fm6de
September 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness month around the world. In England on 9/27 one man will run 50 miles to Trafalgar Square in London to benefit Baton of Hope, a charity focused on suicide prevention and mental health awareness. Read: @basingstokegazette.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/5m9fm6de
tinyurl.com/5m9fm6de
There’s a rise in loneliness despite the connectivity promoted through social media, and it’s reaching critical levels. According to this @Vocal_Creators feature, the U.S. Surgeon General recently called loneliness a “public health crisis.” Read: tinyurl.com/4r4f8ye5
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September 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
There’s a rise in loneliness despite the connectivity promoted through social media, and it’s reaching critical levels. According to this @Vocal_Creators feature, the U.S. Surgeon General recently called loneliness a “public health crisis.” Read: tinyurl.com/4r4f8ye5
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Sigourney Award-2022 recipient Dr. Jack Drescher and Christopher Walling, PsyD moderate the IPA Journal Series “Race, African Americans, and psychoanalysis: Collective silence in the therapeutic conversation” with author Dionne Powell, MD Sept 26. Register for free: tinyurl.com/zhj3za68
September 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Sigourney Award-2022 recipient Dr. Jack Drescher and Christopher Walling, PsyD moderate the IPA Journal Series “Race, African Americans, and psychoanalysis: Collective silence in the therapeutic conversation” with author Dionne Powell, MD Sept 26. Register for free: tinyurl.com/zhj3za68
Art, architecture and psychoanalysis are woven together in the exhibition Je Parle Aux Murs by Annarosa Romano and Paolo Monterisi. Read about it in @JulietArtMag tinyurl.com/u5mne2tc
September 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Art, architecture and psychoanalysis are woven together in the exhibition Je Parle Aux Murs by Annarosa Romano and Paolo Monterisi. Read about it in @JulietArtMag tinyurl.com/u5mne2tc
This Psychology Today feature questions whether therapist neutrality is possible, and addresses if an “ongoing dilemma—how to navigate facts and values in therapy—suggests that a new language may be needed.”
Agree? tinyurl.com/wby53jht
Agree? tinyurl.com/wby53jht
September 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This Psychology Today feature questions whether therapist neutrality is possible, and addresses if an “ongoing dilemma—how to navigate facts and values in therapy—suggests that a new language may be needed.”
Agree? tinyurl.com/wby53jht
Agree? tinyurl.com/wby53jht
National Grief Awareness Day on August 30 offers time to shine a light on coping, compassion and mental health. This @gulfcoastnewsnow.bsky.social piece spotlights The Jason Foundation, a national leader in youth suicide prevention during this important awareness event.
tinyurl.com/3z7cz3eu
tinyurl.com/3z7cz3eu
August 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
National Grief Awareness Day on August 30 offers time to shine a light on coping, compassion and mental health. This @gulfcoastnewsnow.bsky.social piece spotlights The Jason Foundation, a national leader in youth suicide prevention during this important awareness event.
tinyurl.com/3z7cz3eu
tinyurl.com/3z7cz3eu
@ipaonline.bsky.social's "On and Off The Couch” podcast hosted by Harvey Schwartz MD recently invited Sharone Bergner Ph.D. (NYC clinical psychologist & psychoanalyst) to discuss: 'Why is This Happening in My Body'? Tune in: tinyurl.com/5t4e2tnt
August 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
@ipaonline.bsky.social's "On and Off The Couch” podcast hosted by Harvey Schwartz MD recently invited Sharone Bergner Ph.D. (NYC clinical psychologist & psychoanalyst) to discuss: 'Why is This Happening in My Body'? Tune in: tinyurl.com/5t4e2tnt
We just explored Lisbon during the recent IPA Congress, so Vienna psychologist and psychanalyst Lilian Strobl's blog intrigued us. She explores “how the city’s history, culture, and environment can serve as metaphors for our inner worlds.” tinyurl.com/5b5xkstx
August 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We just explored Lisbon during the recent IPA Congress, so Vienna psychologist and psychanalyst Lilian Strobl's blog intrigued us. She explores “how the city’s history, culture, and environment can serve as metaphors for our inner worlds.” tinyurl.com/5b5xkstx
Ever consider the meaning of objects on display in a psychoanalyst’s office? This @aeon.co (Australia) writer explores the ideas.
Read: tinyurl.com/4ak5ke27
Read: tinyurl.com/4ak5ke27
August 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Ever consider the meaning of objects on display in a psychoanalyst’s office? This @aeon.co (Australia) writer explores the ideas.
Read: tinyurl.com/4ak5ke27
Read: tinyurl.com/4ak5ke27