Jan
Lee Prize for Analysis and the Arts
Press release: Third 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 2008-2009 that demonstrates a creative approach to the arts from an analytic perspective was awarded to:
Sharn Waldron
‘The impact of trauma on the psyche of the individual using the film Belleville Rendez-vous as an illustrative vehicle’.
Published in the Journal
of Analytical Psychology Volume 53 no. 4, September 2008
The Panel felt that this paper addressed the important subject of trauma with rigour, integrity and creativity. In bringing together the subject of trauma and the film Belleville Rendez-vous, by Sylvian Chômet, the paper not only convincingly illuminated the film with its deep analysis in respect to trauma, but also made the subject of trauma accessible and shed new light on its dynamic functioning. In integrating these insights with clinical material the paper impressively demonstrated ‘the impact of trauma on the psyche of the individual’.
The panel felt that
the paper was a deserving winner of this year’s prize.
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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 2010, and will be announced in early 2011.
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
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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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Contact
admin@janleeprize.co.uk
