[Spring 1997; Vol. 24 No. 1]
Leon Wurmser, MD of Towson, an MPS member, has been awarded a prize for his work in anthropological psychology and psychiatry by the Margrit-Egner Foundation, Zurich Switzerland. The Foundation promotes new ideas in the fields of anthropologic and human psychology, including related branches of philosophy and medicine. Dr Wurmser will receive the prize in Zurich in November 1997.
Dr Wurmser is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at University of West Virginia, and is a training and supervising analyst of the New York Freudian Society. He was formerly Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program at University of Maryland. He continues to teach here and in several European countries. His other honors include the Lewis B. Hill Award of the Baltimore-D.C. Institute for psychoanalysis, an award from the American Mental Health Foundation, and honorary membership in the Czech Psychoanalytic Society. His publications include The Mask of Shame and The Hidden Dimension, along with some 300 scientific articles.
We are publishing in this issue a paper Dr Wurmser has contributed, outlining his work.