The Sigourney Trust has a newly revised website: sigourneyaward.org which describes how nominations for the 2010 awards can be accomplished online. We welcome all psychoanalysts to review the criteria for nomination and utilize the template on the website to nominate their European colleagues who will be eligible for an award this calendar year.
Please also consider the statement below:
The Trust recognizes one or more individuals and/or organizations each year. Individuals whose work is closely related may share an Award. Trustees solicit nominations for the Award from the psychoanalytic community through available organizational and other Internet services and Web facilities, as well by informing the leaders of psychoanalytic societies and institutes, the editors of psychoanalytic journals, former Sigourney Award recipients, and other significant opinion-makers located in the region of the Award.
After collecting nominations over a six-month period, the Trustees collate all material and submit the nominations, curriculum vitae, and accompanying support documents to the judges. Each judge, working independently, then submits to the Trustees a ranked preferential selection of candidates accompanied by the rationale for the choices. If the judges are not unanimous, the judges and Trustees then confer to achieve consensus.
Upon achieving unanimity among the judges, the Trustees notify the recipients of the judges’ decision and invite them to a ceremony in their honor, which is usually scheduled early in January the following year in New York City.
Judith S. Schachter, M.D.
co-trustee, the Sigourney Trust