Awards

The David B. Feinsilver Award

David B. Feinsilver

A scholarship to fund travel expenses to the ISPS Congress


David B. Feinsilver, M.D. was a long-time staff member at the Chestnut Lodge Hospital in Rockville, Maryland, U.S.A, where he chaired its Symposium Committee. A former president of ISPS, the chair of its 1994 meeting in Washington, and the founder of ISPS-US, he established a fund before he died after a long illness.  This fund grants a scholarship to fund travel expenses to each ISPS International congress, for the best research or clinical paper on the psychotherapeutic treatment of the severely disturbed.  

Applications for the award should be from those who cannot afford to attend the ISPS Congress without financial support.  


An international selection committee will be comprised of 5 people. The committee will review the nominees and the winner will be selected by majority. The nomination should be e-mailed to isps@isps.org  and it will then be forwarded to each committee member for review.

Winner of the 2011 David B Feinsilver Award: Debra Lampshire, New Zealand.

Past winners:

-Ishita Sanyal, Kolkata, India.

-Konstantia Zgantzouri, Crete, Greece.


Contributions to the fund may be sent to the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region: CFNCR - Feinsilver Fund: 1112 16th Street NW, Suite 340; Washington, DC 20036.

 

The Barbro Sandin Award

ISPS International Congress

In 2008 the Barbro Sandin Award was created by ISPS and the Barbro Sandin Foundation. The award honours a woman leader in psychological treatment every two years at the ISPS International Congress.

Read about Barbro Sandin

Winner of the 2011 Barbro Sandin Award: Ann-Louise S. Silver, MD

The recipient of the award will receive a US$ 250 bursary, a plaque stating the recipient's name, award title, date, Sandin/ISPS partnership, and a US$ 1.200 travel award as a contribution to cover travel expenses to the ISPS International Congress.  The deadline for the 2011 Barbro Sandin Award has already passed. The winner will receive an award at the ISPS Dubrovnik 2011 congress this coming June.

Criteria to be nominated for the Barbro Sandin Award are as follows:
The woman recipient needs to have accomplished one or more of the following: 

  1. Furthered the lives of women in the field of mental health through one of the following excellent teaching, mentoring, clinical work, research

  2. Provide excellence in any of the clinical fields - trauma, recovery, rescue and disaster work

  3. Provide new clinical pathways insights into the lives of child and adolescents, youth, adults or older adults suffering from psychosis

  4. Furthered the lives of fellow women colleagues in the field of mental health

  5. Provide any further insights into any individual or family therapies that promotes a women centered approach

  6. Pursued sex and gender clinical/research work

  7. Furthered the understanding of women and mental health in different cultural locations around the world

  8. Further a sense of humanness, existentialism - helping those suffering from mental illness a way to create meaning in their lives and provide hope for the future

  9. Pursued their research and patient care in spite of resistance, rejection or traditional thinking