Established by Psychoanalytic Psychology and the Board of the Division of Psychoanalysis, the Stephen A. Mitchell Award honors our esteemed late colleague, Stephen A. Mitchell, along with a graduate student whose paper is deemed exemplary by a panel of judges.
The winner of the 2023 Stephen A. Mitchell Award is Karen Tocatly for her paper “Blighted Phenomena: Learning to Work With the Dark.”
Karen Tocatly is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the City College of New York. Her doctoral research utilized various language scales, including computerized measures of the referential process, in order to characterize therapists’ language in response to patients’ high arousal. Her interests include psychoanalytic process and theory. She is currently completing her pre-doctoral internship at Jacobi Medical Center.