CFP: AAPP 2015 Karl Jaspers Award

KARL JASPERS AWARD 2015

The Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry 

(AAPP) announces a competition for residents and fellows in 

psychiatry, and graduate students in philosophy, psychology, or 

related fields.

The Karl Jaspers Award is given for the best solely authored, 

unpublished paper related to the subject of philosophy and psychiatry.

Appropriate topics for the essay include, among others, the mind-body 

problem, psychiatric methodology, nosology and diagnostic issues, 

epistemology, biopsychosocial integration, the philosophy of science, 

philosophical aspects of the history of psychiatry, psychodynamic, 

hermeneutic and phenomenological approaches, and psychiatric ethics.

The Jaspers Award is announced at our AAPP Annual Meeting, held

concurrently with the American Psychiatric Association’s Annual 

Meeting. In 2015, the meeting will be on the weekend of May 16-17, 

in Toronto, Canada. The prize carries a cash prize of $350 and 

recognition in AAPP publications.

All entries should be sent to Professor Christian Perring

([email protected]).

The deadline for entries is December 1, 2014. The length of 

submissions should be between 4,000-6,000 words.

AAPP Home Page: 

http://alien.dowling.edu/~cperring/aapp/