5th Lifetime Achievement Awards
for Extraordinary Accomplishments in Psychohistory
Presented by Psychohistory Forum
November 16, 2024, 11am-1:15pm EST
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This is our 5th Lifetime Achievement Awards ceremony at Psychohistory Forum, and the recipients this time are George Atwood, Robert Stolorow, and Vamik Volkan.
Introducers of the Awardees Are:
Vamik D. Volkan will be introduced by Regine Scholz, International Dialogue Initiative
George Atwood will be introduced by Mike Alvarez, University of New Hampshire,
Robert D. Stolorow will be introduced by Allison Merrick, California State University
Short Bios of the Awardees:
Vamık D. Volkan, M.D., is an outstanding psychohistorian and an incredibly prolific author who writes utilizing psychoanalytic insights to mitigate conflicts and encourage peace. At the University of Virginia, he created and ran the Center for Mind and Human Interaction, which published a journal. Next, he served as Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center. Volkan is the emeritus president of the International Dialogue Initiative and has received numerous awards as well as Nobel Peace Prize nominations.
George Atwood, PhD, is renowned as an outstanding psychoanalytic clinician and a Founding Faculty member of The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York City. His major interests include personality theory, the psychology of knowledge, psychotherapy, the study of psychotic states, and the relationship between creative geniuses and madness. His most significant psychohistorical book, Faces in a Cloud: Intersubjectivity in Personality Theory (1993), was co-authored by Robert Stolorow, with whom he has collaborated for most of his career.
Robert D. Stolorow, PhD, is a Founding Faculty Member at The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City, and The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. He has had an incredibly long and productive intellectual psychoanalytic collaboration with George Atwood. In addition to Faces in a Cloud: Intersubjectivity in Personality Theory (1993), they have co-authored Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Clinical and Philosophical Dimensions in Psychoanalysis (2022). This Heidegger scholar has various recognitions, including the Hans W. Loewald Memorial Award.
Prior Lifetime Achievement Awards were granted to Nancy Chodorow, Carol Gilligan, Eva Fogelman, Nancy McWilliams, Peter J. Loewenberg, Robert Jay Lifton, Alan C. Elms, David R. Beisel, Lawrence J. Friedman, Howard F. Stein, Jacques Szaluta, Daniel Dervin, Herbert Barry III, C. Fred Alford, David J. Fisher, Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, and William M. Runyan. Read more about the history of the Lifetime Achievement Awards below.
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