Jan Lee Prize for Analysis and the Arts

Press release: Sixth award of the Jan Lee Arts Prize

The £500 Jan Lee Arts Prize for the best paper published in UK psychoanalytic and Jungian analytic Journals in 2011-2012 that demonstrates a creative approach to the arts from an analytic perspective was awarded to:

Helen Morgan

To Paint the Portrait of a Bird': analytic work from the perspective of a 'developmental' Jungian’

Published in the Journal of Analytical Psychology (Volume no 57, No 1, Pages 1–148)

The Prize Committee commented:

‘Helen begins by quoting Jacques Prévert's poem, 'To Paint the Portrait of a Bird', and from there weaves, … a picture of the art and humanity .. of psychotherapy. She explores …the analytic frame illustrating how the therapist sets up the space (first paints the cage for the bird) in which the patient can feel contained and, if all goes well, their soul-bird-self can come to 'sing'. Helen talks movingly of the lasting effect that the analyst and patient have on each other…’

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About Jan Lee

Jan Lee was a Jungian analyst and psychoanalytic psychotherapist who died from cancer in August 2006. She was a member of the Westminster Pastoral Foundation, The Guild of Psychotherapists and the Society of Analytical Psychology and she had a developing interest in working with groups. She was a member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Psychotherapy. Jan was keenly interested in the arts, especially film, music and dance and loved to interpret and enjoy them from an analytic perspective, regardless of conventional distinctions of ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture. Before she died, she had begun to develop her interest in writing, teaching and publishing from this angle but was unable, tragically, to pursue this. She wanted to find a way of encouraging others to do what she would no longer be able to do, and began discussions with a number of close colleagues about a prize of this nature. In collaboration with her husband, Ian Lee, the Jan Lee Prize is being established to honour her lifelong commitment to creativity.
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The Jan Lee Prize for Analysis and the Arts

The prize is for a paper published in UK psychoanalytic and Jungian analytic Journals in the last year that demonstrates a creative approach to the arts from an analytic perspective. The ‘arts’ is defined broadly to include film, music, television, dance and the fine arts generally.

The prize is an award of £500 given to the author directly. The next prize will be for papers published up to June 2013, and will be announced in 2014.

The first winner was Margeurite Valentine for her paper: 'Those that the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad: an analytic discussion of the depiction of sado-masochism in the film Night Porter' British Journal of Psychotherapy 2007, 23, 3,445.

The second winner was Sheila Ritchie for her paper:
'Co-constructing a Group Narrative: One Group’s Experience of ‘Translation’ of the Unarticulated Symptom through the Narrative of the Film ‘"The Piano".' Group Analysis 2008, 41, 84

The fourth winner was
Judith Edwards for her paper:
Teaching and learning about psychoanalysis: Film as a Teaching Tool, with reference to a particular film ‘Malvern Callar' British Journal of Psychotherapy Volume 26 no. 1, February 2010

The fifth winner was
Denis Patrick Slattery for his paper:
The Wonder of Wandering: Archetype, Myth and Metaphor in William Faulkner’s ‘The Bear’ Spring, Vol 85.

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Eligible Journals

UK-based Journals that have a clear clinical approach to Jungian and psychoanalytic work. These are: British Journal of Psychotherapy; Group Analysis;
Harvest;
International Journal of Psychoanalysis;
Journal of Analytical Psychology;
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy;
Psychodynamic Practice.
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The Prize Committee

Jinny Fisher, Guild of Psychotherapists.
Graham Fuller, Society of Analytical Psychology, Institute of Group Analysis.
Nicola Glucksmann, Society of Analytical Psychology,
David Hewison, Society of Analytical Psychology, Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships.
Ian Lee.
Felicity Nichols, Society of Analytical Psychology.
Marcus West, Society of Analytical Psychology.
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