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Alonso Award for Excellence in Psychodynamic Group Theory Recipients

‎2023 ‎

Ole Karkov Østergård, PhD
Catharina Reestorff Frandsen, MSc
Kristian Valbak, PhD
‎”Psychological Mindedness, Personality Structure, and Outcomes in Short-Term Group Analytic ‎Psychotherapy”‎

‎2022 ‎

Les R. Greene
‎”The Research-Practice Psychotherapy Wars: The Case of Group Psychotherapy in the Treatment of ‎PTSD”

Cheri L. Marmarosh
Editor, Special Issue of the International Journal for Group Psychotherapy on Rupture and Repair in Group Therapy

‎2021 ‎

Leonardo M. Leiderman, PsyD, ABPP, CGP, AGPA-F
‎”Psychodynamic Group Therapy with Hispanic Migrants: Interpersonal, Relational Constructs in Treating ‎Complex Trauma, Dissociation, and Enactments”‎

‎2020

Les Greene, PhD, CGP, AGPA-DLF & Francis Kaklauskas, PsyD, AGPA-F
‎“Core Principles of Group Psychotherapy – An Integrated Theory, Research, and Practice Training ‎Manual”

‎2019

Bonnie Buchele, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, AGPA-DLF
‎”Today’s Bridge Between Psychoanalysis and the Group World.”

‎2018

Robert Grossmark, Ph.D.
‎”Narrating the Unsayable: Enactment, Repair and Creative Multiplicity in Group Psychotherapy”

‎2017

Ravit Raufman, Phgoudy.D. and Haim Weinberg, Ph.D., CGP.
‎”To Enter One’s Skin: The Concrete and Symbolic Functions of the Skin in the Social Unconscious, as ‎Expressed in Fairy Tales and Group Therapy.”

John R. Schlapobersky, BA, MSC.
‎”From The Couch To The Circle: Group-Analytic Psychotherapy In Practice.”

2016

Deborah C. Schwartz M.D., FRCPC, AGPA-F, CGP, Marcia S. Nickow Psy.D., CADC, CGP, Ric Arseneau ‎M.D., FRCPC, FACP, CGP and Mary T. Gisslow M.D.
‎”A Substance Called Food: Long-term Psychodynamic Group Treatment for Compulsive Overeating.”

2015

William Sharp, PsyaD, LMHC, CGP
‎“Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But What About Words?”

2014

Jacqueline L. Kinley, M.D., FRCPC, Diplomat ABPN and Sandra M. Reyno, Ph.D.
‎”Attachment Style Changes Following Intensive Short-term Group Pychotherapy.”

2013

Les Greene, PhD, CGP, AGPA-DLF
‎”Group Therapist as Social Scientist, with Special Reference to the Psychodynamically Oriented ‎Psychotherapist.”

2012 ‎

Leanh Nguyen, PhD
‎“The Ethics of Trauma: Re-traumatization in Society’s Approach to the Traumatized ‎Subject.”

‎2011

Susan Gantt, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, AGPA-F and Paul Cox, M.D., CGP, Editors
‎“Neurobiology and Building Interpersonal Systems: Groups, Couples and Beyond” – a special issue of ‎the IJGP

2010 ‎

Robin Gayle, PhD, MFT
‎”Co-Creating Meaningful Structures Within Long-Term Psychotherapy Group Culture”

2009

Harold Bernard, Ph.D., Gary Burlingame, Ph.D., Phillip Flores, Ph.D., Les Greene, Ph.D., Anthony Joyce, ‎Ph.D., Joseph C. Kobos, Ph.D., Molyn Leszcz, MD, FRCPC, Rebecca R. MacNair-Semands, Ph.D., William ‎E. Piper, Ph.D, Anne M. Slocum McEneaney, Ph.D., Diane Feirman, CAE
‎”Practice Guidelines for Group Psychotherapy”

‎2008

Phyllis F. Cohen, Ph.D., PsyD, CGP, AGPA-F
‎”Anniversary Reactions in the Therapy Group”

Robert Grossmark, PhD
‎”The Edge of Chaos: Encactment, Disruption, and Emergence in Group Psychotherapy”

2007

Bonnie Buchele, Ph.D., CGP, AGPA-DF and Richard Beck, RCSW, BCD, CGP, AGPA-F
‎“In the Belly of the Beast: Traumatic Countertransference”

2006

Kathleen Adams, PhD, CGP
‎“Falling Forever: The Price of Chronic Shock”

2005

Earl Hopper, Ph.D., CGP, AGPA-F
‎“Traumatic Experience in the Unconscious Life of Groups”

‎“Vulnerable Moments: Deepening of the Therapeutic Process”
Martin S. Livingston, Ph.D., CGP

‎2004

Richard Billow, Ph.D.
‎“Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion”

‎2003

Jennifer Johnson, Ph.D.
‎“An Integrated Picture of Therapeutic Relationships in AGPA Institute and Counseling Center Groups”

‎2002

Robert H. Klein, Ph.D., CGP, AGPA-DLF and Victor L. Schermer, M.S., C.A.C, Editors
‎“Group Psychotherapy for Psychological Trauma”

2001 ‎

Nancy Edwards, Ph.D., AGPA-LF & Seymour Rubenfeld, Ph.D., AGPA-F
For outstanding journal articles in group psychotherapy

‎2000 ‎

Eleanor Counselman, Ed.D., CGP, AGPA-DLF, Jerome Gans, M.D., CGP, AGPA-F & Walker Shields, M.D., ‎CGP, AGPA-F
For outstanding journal articles in group psychotherapy

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