January 14, 2013 (New York) – New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute today announces that Barbara L. Milrod, M.D. is the recipient of the first juried Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award for Innovation in Psychoanalysis.
Dr. Milrod is currently Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell and she also maintains a private practice in Manhattan specializing in panic disorder and agoraphobia, with expertise in anxiety and mood disorders in adults and children. She has dedicated her career to providing scientific, reliably reproducible evidence demonstrating the efficacy and utility of psychoanalytic forms of treatment. To this end, she became expert in psychotherapy research, specifically in clinical trials and outcome studies. In collaboration with colleagues, Dr. Milrod wrote the first psychoanalytic psychotherapy manual for an Axis I anxiety disorder, panic disorder.
“Dr. Milrod has made a unique contribution to the field of psychoanalysis by developing a specific addition to the treatment of a serious and prevalent disorder by demonstrating to the medical world, the funding world, and the research world that psychodynamic treatment is useful and practical,” explained Dr. Leon Hoffman, Chair of the Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award Committee and co-Director of the Pacella Parent Child Center at NYPSI. “Her work connects psychoanalysis proper with the research world, is an avenue toward the reintroduction of psychodynamic concepts into medical education, and has achieved the respect of non-psychoanalytic clinicians.”
After receiving her medical degree from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Milrod completed her residency in general psychiatry and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at The Payne Whitney Clinic in Manhattan. For the next six years, she held positions as an Instructor and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and received her psychoanalytic training at New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute where she is currently a Member.
The Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award for Innovation in Psychoanalysis was established in 2012 in the name of Dr. Leon Kupferstein, a graduate and past-President of the then New York Psychoanalytic Society (2001 – 2003). Dr. Kupferstein was a dedicated student of Sigmund Freud, but also possessed a firm belief that the art and science of psychoanalysis must move forward and respond to new discoveries about the human condition.
The inaugural recipient of NYPSI’s Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award for Innovation in Psychoanalysis was to Kupferstein’s mentor and colleague Dr. Charles Brenner, in honor of his long-standing commitments and considerable body of work that continues to contribute to the modern understanding of the value of psychoanalysis.
Appreciation is expressed to Lawrence Friedman, Philip Herschenfeld, Kyla Kupferstein Torres, Arnold Richards and Michael Sacks, the Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award Committee members, who were involved in the review of nominations last fall.
The Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award for Innovation in Psychoanalysis is sponsored by New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and is accompanied by a $1,000 honorarium. It is to be awarded every three years to a living person whose innovative or influential contribution has allowed psychoanalysis to move forward. There are no restrictions regarding nationality or country of origin except that published work must exist in English and all documents and the nomination must be submitted in English. Both NYPSI members as well as non-NYPSI members may be considered for nomination.
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute’s (NYPSI) mission is to provide the highest level of psychoanalytic training to mental health professionals, promote excellence in psychoanalytic research and offer a range of educational, advisory and affordable therapeutic service programs to the New York City community. NYPSI’s position as the oldest psychoanalytic organization in the Americas parallels its global leadership role in the history of psychoanalysis and its influence on the cultural and intellectual life of New York City. NYPSI is recognized by Time Out New York as offering one of the twenty best lecture series in the city. The then New York Psychoanalytic Society was founded in 1911 by A.A. Brill, one of the first practicing psychoanalysts in the United States and the first translator of Freud into English. NYPSI is a 501(c)(3) tax-deductible organization.
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