Awards
The David B Feinsilver Award
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.
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. Applications should be from those who would not otherwise be able to fund their own transportation and accommodation costs for the ISPS Congress.
Those submitting abstracts to the ISPS Congress should indicate on their submission that they wish to be considered for the award.
Past winners:
2006: The Paper winner didn´t come to Madrid Congress
2003: Ishita Sanyal, Kolkata, India. "Family Movement: A New Road in the Treatment and Recovery in Psychosis."
2000: Konstantia Zgantzouri, Crete, Greece. "Psychotherapy process research in schizophrenia paranoid type: The investigation of delusion formation through the evaluation of in-session events."
The Barbro Sandin Award
ISPS International Congress
ISPS and the Barbro Sandin Foundation are pleased to announce the creation of the Barbro Sandin Award. The award will honour a woman leader in psychological treatment every three years at the ISPS International Congress.
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.
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:
- Furthered the lives of women in the field of mental health through one of the following excellent teaching, mentoring, clinical work, research
- Provide excellence in any of the clinical fields - trauma, recovery, rescue and disaster work
- Provide new clinical pathways insights into the lives of child and adolescents, youth, adults or older adults suffering from psychosis
- Furthered the lives of fellow women colleagues in the field of mental health
- Provide any further insights into any individual or family therapies that promotes a women centered approach
- Pursued sex and gender clinical/research work
- Furthered the understanding of women and mental health in different cultural locations around the world
- 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
- Pursued their research and patient care in spite of resistance, rejection or traditional thinking
Process of Nomination
Some months before the next ISPS International Congress (to take place in 2012) we will publish a call for nominations. Please nominate by providing a 250 word essay, submitted in English, describing the woman recipient's contribution that you feel meets any combination of the above criteria.
An international selection committee will be comprised of 5 people including the Chair, Dr. JoAnn Elizabeth Leavey. 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.
The winner of the 2012 Barbro Sandin Award will be announced at the ISPS International Congress. The winner will be contacted in confidence in advance as they will be expected to give a short speech or lecture regarding their work and contribution based on the criteria for winning.
Past winners:
2009: Ishita Sanyal, Kolkata, India.