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 in the amount of $2.500 for the best research or clinical paper on the psychotherapeutic treatment of the severely disturbed.  Applications should be from those who would not be able to afford the expense of the trip were it not for scholarship assistance.

 

Those submitting abstracts to the 2011 ISPS-Dubrovnik meeting should indicate on their submission that they wish to be considered for the award.

 

Past winners:
2009: Arnhild Lauveng, Disenå, Norway. “Tomorrow I was Always a Lion.”

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."

 

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 

 

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: 

 

  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