Carleton University Social Work Professor Cecilia Taiana has received the Douglas Levin Award from the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (CPS). She received the award at the society’s Annual Congress in Montreal from the President of the society and Carleton’s Chancellor’s Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Andrew Brook for her paper Mourning the Dead, Mourning the Disappeared: The Enigma of the Absent-presence.
Taiana’s winning paper focuses on Freud’s Mourning and Melancholia as a landmark in the understanding of both the normal and psychopathological aspects of mourning and depressive processes. The paper discusses “special mourning processes,” such as those confronted by psychoanalysts in Argentina when treating the relatives of thousands of people who were “disappeared” by the military dictatorship in the 1970s.
The Douglas Levin Prize is awarded for the best paper every two years. The winner receives $1,000 and a certificate. It is named in memory of Douglas Levin, long-time revered director of training for the CPS. The winning paper is published in the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis.
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