Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D.

Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and psychology and chief of the psychology section in the Department of Psychiatry, has received the Mary S. Sigourney Award from the Mary S. Sigourney Award Trust, for distinguished contributions to psychoanalytic theory and research. The Sigourney Award, considered the most distinguished international award for contributions to psychoanalysis, includes a prize of $50,000. Blatt’s research has focused on disruptions of normal psychological development as the core of many psychiatric disorders.