Wallerstein Fellowship for Psychoanalytic Research
The Wallerstein Fellowship for Psychoanalytic Research, named to honor Dr. Robert Wallerstein, was set up to support the research of one analytic researcher for his/her professional lifetime.
The interest on the endowment is available each year to support empirical research in psychoanalysis.
Dr. Enrico Jones, the first fellow, developed a psychological tool to allow each analytic or therapeutic case to serve as it's own control, thereby providing empirical evidence for the efficacy of psychoanalytic techniques.
After Dr. Jones died, Dr. Nathan Szajnberg was appointed as the second fellow. His research compares cohorts of children and young adults from diverse cultures in an attempt to understand the pertinent developmental issues.
He is also engaged in continuing the longitudinal studies on a group of infants begun by Dr. Sylvia Brody forty years ago.
Windholz Memorial Fund for Psychoanalytic Research and Clinical Research
Emanuel Windholz, M.D. was one of the founding members of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and Society.
Throughout his life he provided leadership for psychoanalysis and for this Institute and Society.
His energetic dedication to psychoanalysis included obtaining support for the work of the Low Fee Clinic in the 1970’s, and in the 1980’s for his important research on Consensual Analysis.
These reflected his commitment to psychoanalysis, both as a treatment that should be more widely available, and as a field for which sophisticated research was important.
He was a leader in both areas and worked to involve analysts in both endeavors.
To honor Dr. Windholz, the funds left in his Consensual Analysis Fund at the time of his death were instituted as a memorial endowment fund for those purposes for which he had obtained them, psychoanalytic research and the Low Fee Clinic.
One general purpose of the fund is to support interest in psychoanalytic research.
It is hoped that the sums available can be utilized to stimulate interest in psychoanalytic research and to help psychoanalysts get involved or started in research.
While the support may be for specific projects at times, it may also be interpreted more broadly to include special lectures, workshops or seminars that might also stimulate or facilitate the development of psychoanalytic research by the SFPI&S membership.
This may also include support to aid a research candidate with his/her training in the Institute.
Approximately 25% of the fund came from contributions in support of the psychoanalytic Low Fee Clinic.
Therefore, it is also intended that a certain amount of support be available for worthy projects related to the purposes of a Low Fee Clinic that aims toward making psychoanalysis known and available to people who might otherwise not be able to avail themselves of it.
