Jan Lee Prize for Analysis and the Arts

Press release: Fourth 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 2009-2010 that demonstrates a creative approach to the arts from an analytic perspective was awarded to:

Judith Edwards

Teaching and learning about psychoanalysis: Film as a Teaching Tool, with reference to a particular film ‘Malvern Callar'

Published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy Volume 26 no. 1, February 2010

The Panel thought this was an excellent paper which not only gave a powerful example of the use of film and a telling analysis of 'Morvern Callar', but also explored the use of film as a vehicle for teaching psychoanalytic concepts. The paper also gave a vivid and evocative account of the film itself.

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 2011, and will be announced in 2012.

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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