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The Sigourney Award-2024 Recipients Honored For Outstanding Work Advancing Psychoanalytic Principles Globally

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Four Recipients’ Work From Israel, Sweden, Canada and South Africa Earns The Sigourney Award-2024

SEATTLE, Nov. 12, 2024 /CNW/ — The Sigourney Award Trust annually recognizes outstanding work that advances psychoanalytic thought and principles throughout the world. Robin A. Deutsch, PhD and Analyst Co-Trustee of The Sigourney Award Trust, today announces three individuals and one organization whose work of the past decade earns The Sigourney Award-2024 and a substantial cash prize. Recipients include: Merav Roth, PhD (Tel Aviv, Israel); Björn Salomonsson, MD (Stockholm, Sweden); Dominique Scarfone, MD (Montreal, Canada); and The Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust (Johannesburg, South Africa).

“The 2024 recipients’ work has uniquely and positively impacted populations, including the youngest among us, by expanding access and understanding of psychoanalysis as well as psychotherapy’s benefits to professionals and the general public,” says Dr. Deutsch. “The anonymous judges, who likewise conduct exemplary professional careers, evaluated work from 10 countries to select work that most closely aligned with Mary Sigourney’s original intent.”

Founded by Mary Sigourney in 1989, The Sigourney Award was established to recognize and promote exceptional work that advances psychoanalytic principles and their ability to better humankind.

Work Meriting The Sigourney Award-2024 (Alphabetical order)

Merav Roth, PhD (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Prof. Merav Roth’s exceptional interdisciplinary work included an unparalleled approach to psychoanalysis and literature, which gave readers a better understanding of the deep psychic processes involved in reading and earned her a reputation as a pioneering psychoanalytic thinker. Her notable work also expands to her impactful role as a writer and activist on trauma, ethics and culture in Israel and abroad.  Accomplishments in the past decade include her first book, A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature – Reading the Reader (Routledge, 2020), where she described the unconscious processes involved in reading literature. As the former chair of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy program at Tel Aviv University, Roth established and still chairs “The Clinic For All” which provides pro-bono psychotherapy for deprived or disadvantaged populations. As a professor at the University of Haifa, Roth established a new philanthropic initiative, “Interweaving,” a culturally sensitive clinic for disadvantaged populations. Following the events of October 7 in Israel, Roth’s psychoanalytic work with trauma was swiftly employed to provide guidance and wide-reaching help, including establishing with two colleagues a philanthropic network of 450 psychoanalysts who provide long-term pro-bono support to survivors and their family members.

Björn Salomonsson, MD (Stockholm, Sweden)
Dr. Björn Salomonsson’s work has profoundly amplified psychoanalytic knowledge and infant caretaking techniques, and engaged non-psychoanalytic healthcare professionals participating in pre-, peri-, and post-natal care of mothers and infants. An Associate Professor at Swedish Psychoanalytic Institute, Salomonsson combined training in psychoanalysis and research to improve the early life of distressed babies by wholly refining Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy (PIP) methodology. He also co-founded The A Primo Foundation, with successful courses for nurses, midwives and psychologists in Maternity Units and Child Health Centers. His work pioneered psychoanalytic techniques for working directly with child health nurses who had little to no prior psychoanalytic exposure. Nurses used the techniques to address perturbed infant-parent relationships and creatively and respectfully bring a psychoanalytic understanding of the infant’s and parents’ experience of troubled relationships. In his book Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy (2018), Salomonsson systematically describes how a therapist can practice treatment beyond the one-to-one model and deliver a multi-relationship-based psychoanalytic therapy model by actively engaging the infant during psychoanalytic therapy. Today, PIP is viewed as highly relevant for every analyst.

Dominique Scarfone, MD (Montreal, Canada)  
Prof. Dominique Scarfone’s influential work has advanced a veritable renaissance in the study and transmission of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche’s work and produced essential theoretical contributions in unconscious communication, temporality, and the translational model of the psyche. Providing a new approach to Freudian thinking, his endeavors bridge French, British and North American psychoanalytic culture. Scarfone’s work demonstrates how the marriage of tradition with radical thinking can expand the field of psychoanalysis. While maintaining a solid belief that Freud’s foundational method offers a common ground between these cultures, he has urged persistent questioning and reconsidering of Freud’s methods to liberate new thinking. Scarfone has illuminated a modern approach to how the psychosexual enters all these domains through work addressing clinical matters, questions of transference and repetition, one’s relationship to art and ethics, and the deep complexity of what it means to be human. Within the past ten years Scarfone has published three significant books including Laplanche (2014), The Unpast (2015), and The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the Wake of Jean Laplanche (2023).

The Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust (Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa)
The Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust’s outstanding work addresses the country’s traumatic past and current uncertainties, major challenges to personal relationships, mental-health challenges related to poverty, unemployment, poor infrastructure, and other crises by ingeniously magnifying the accessibility and efficacy of psychoanalytic treatment in South Africa. Ububele’s approach is rooted in the lived experiences of Johannesburg and Alexandra’s community of over 500,000 people overburdened by harsh poverty, serious crime, corruption and the lesser recognized but lasting impact of apartheid. An essential awareness and acknowledgement of transference and the influence of the unconscious informs unique initiatives centered on promoting healthy parent-child attachment through the development of low-cost, replicable models of psychoanalytically informed interventions. Two examples include the Ububele Umdlezane Parent-Infant Programs focused on the first thousand days of life and the Therapy and Assessment Clinic which conducts psychoeducational assessments and psychotherapy services. Ububele’s capacity building methods offer initial and continuing training emphasizing the transference relationship and the necessity of working beyond the surface. The training provides youth and caregivers the psychoanalytically informed psycho-emotional support needed to succeed in breaking inter-generational cycles of emotional poverty and mental health despair. 

“The Sigourney Award’s canons are unwavering and the Trust works tirelessly to ensure that Mary Sigourney’s intent is honored with a wholly independent assessment of exceptional work with each year’s Awards. We are fortunate to attract applications and nominations from around the world representing ground-breaking work that has advanced psychoanalytic thought and principles,” says Michael J. Harrington, JD, Attorney Co-Trustee of The Sigourney Award Trust.

Visit The Sigourney Award to review all recipients’ announcements. Applications for The Sigourney Award-2025 open March 1, 2025 for qualifying work completed between 2015-2024. Follow social platforms on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn @SigourneyAward, and X @sigourney_the.

About The Sigourney Award
The Sigourney Award Trust, a wholly independent nonprofit organization established by Mary Sigourney in 1989, annually bestows The Sigourney Award as international recognition and reward for outstanding work that has advanced psychoanalytic principles. Ms. Sigourney was a psychotherapist, publisher, and community activist who had a passionate interest in psychoanalysis and understood its ability to benefit and extend human conversation across various disciplines. Since 1990, The Sigourney Award has rewarded and promoted outstanding work. To date, 149 Award recipients from 22 countries represent her global vision. Judges of The Sigourney Award remain anonymous to ensure an unbiased and thorough evaluation practice. Work honored by The Sigourney Award has significantly contributed to human affairs on topics ranging from clinical psychoanalysis, neuroscience, feminism, and political oppression.

Media Contact: Kelly Wisecarver, kelly@wisecarverpr.com

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Stryker launches next generation of SurgiCount+ to help improve the standard of care in hospitals for sponge management and blood loss assessment

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PORTAGE, Mich., USA, Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Stryker (NYSE:SYK), a global leader in medical technologies, announced its launch of the next generation of SurgiCount+ within its sponge management portfolio. Now integrated with Stryker’s Triton technology, SurgiCount+ addresses two key challenges: retained surgical sponges and blood loss assessment. Integrating these previously separate digital solutions provides the added benefit of a more efficient, streamlined workflow for hospitals.

Maternal mortality has been rising in the U.S. for decades,1 with approximately 50,000 cases of severe maternal morbidity occurring each year.2 Notably, 70% of pregnancy-related deaths due to hemorrhage are preventable.3 Stryker’s Triton software includes AI technology that can differentiate blood from other fluids and a Bluetooth scale that batch weighs blood-soaked items to help assess blood loss. This provides hospital staff with real-time information to help coordinate the clinical team’s hemorrhage response and make informed patient care decisions.

Surgical sponges continue to be the number one retained surgical item with 88% of retained surgical items occurring with a false correct count.4 For nurses trying to locate a missing sponge in the operating room (OR), that can take up to 10 minutes on average.5 Stryker’s SurgiCount+ software helps address these problems by featuring a wireless reader that counts, tracks and locates surgical sponges in the OR. RFID-tagged sponges enable unique identification, eliminating false-correct duplicate or unknown counts.

“We are committed to helping keep caregivers and patients safe from harm,” said Brandon Jominy, vice president and general manager of Stryker’s Surgical Technologies business. “Integrating our SurgiCount+ and Triton technologies on one platform will set a new industry standard for quantifying blood loss and continuing to help reduce retained surgical sponges in the OR.”

Additionally, recent studies show that nurse burnout is affecting more than half of all U.S. nurses.6 By integrating these two technologies into one solution, it provides additional benefits to hospitals and staff which includes:

Helping save time by standardizing clinical protocols for chartingSimplifying workflows and aggregating case data with backend dataHelping reduce manual data entry errors through real-time EMR integrationTracking and communicating patient information with one seamless workflow

For more information about Stryker’s SurgiCount+ integrated with Triton please visit safeor.com/products/surgicount-triton.

About Stryker
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. More information is available at stryker.com.

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1. Hoyert DL. Maternal mortality rates in the United States, 2021. NCHS Health E-Stats. 2023. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc:124678

2. Callaghan, W.M., Creanga, A.A. and Kuklina, E.V. (2012) “Severe maternal morbidity among delivery and postpartum hospitalizations in the United States,” Obstetrics & Gynecology,120(5), pp. 1029–1036. doi:10.1097/aog.0b013e31826d60c5.

3. Building U.S. Capacity to Review and Prevent Maternal Deaths. (2018). Report from nine maternal mortality review committees. https://www.cdcfoundation.org/sites/default/files/files/ReportfromNineMMRCs.pdf

4. Gawande, A. A., Studdert, D. M., Orav, E. J., Brennan, T. A., & Zinner, M. J. (2003). Risk factors for retained instruments and sponges after surgery. The New England Journal of Medicine, 348(3), 229–235. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsa021721 

5. Double-blinded survey of 154 Operating Room Nurses from 154 different facilities across the United States. Data on file internally. Conducted August 2020.

6. Rotenstein, L.S., Brown, R., Sinsky, C. et al. The Association of Work Overload with Burnout and Intent to Leave the Job Across the Healthcare Workforce During COVID-19. J GEN INTERN MED 38, 1920–1927 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-023-08153-z

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14,000 Consumers Weigh In: Kearney Consumer Institute Releases Keeping Up with the Consumer – New Report Identifies Key Tension Points Informing Consumer Choices, Brand Selection, and What’s Behind “Unpredictable” Consumer Behavior

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Brands are pumping out more choices than consumers need or want.Consumers streamline their needs spending to enable discretionary spend.Brands and retailers need to revert to EQ and great merchandising.

CHICAGO, Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Kearney Consumer Institute (KCI), an internal think tank of global strategy and management consultancy Kearney, today released a consumer research report that upends much of the conventional wisdom around brand proliferation, over-reliance on data, and consumer choices. Based on survey data from 14,000 consumers across the US, Europe, and APAC, Keeping Up with the Consumer examines buyers’ unpredictable, seemingly quixotic behaviors, identifies the underlying tension points that explain them, and concludes that brands are massively under-accounting for the human element that drives purchase decisions.

“Brands have more data than ever about consumer demographics, behavior, spending, and opinions. But we still often categorize consumer behavior as ‘unpredictable.’ To understand why, our research found three key consumer tensions that help explain this behavior,” notes KCI lead Katie Thomas. “As options and access grow, consumers’ lives are only getting more complicated. Sometimes we get lost in one side of a narrative, without realizing the strain it puts on consumers.” The research identified the following three friction points:

Options vs. overload: Consumers seem to expect a product that suits each type of skin, diet, or fitness need. Yet, in many major categories, most consumers believe there’s already plenty to choose from—if not too much.

Curation vs. control: Two out of three consumers say they like making all their decisions themselves. But it’s logical that consumers want (and need) some level of curation to make sense of all their options.

Facts vs. feelings: Consumers want to “do their own research” (and they trust themselves more than they trust brands and institutions), but have limited reserves of time, energy, and motivation.

Keeping Up with the Consumer explores consumer shifts since 2016, when the KCI released The Future Consumer. Then, brands were focusing on the power of influence, a socially driven approach centered on “authenticity.” However, as the “influence” approach became more common, it lost some appeal and started to feel less authentic. Meantime, dramatic changes to the consumer landscape—from COVID-19 to political unrest to the emergence of new social media and shopping platforms—helped consolidate this massive shift.

The research suggests that retailers and brands aren’t striking the right balance between facts versus feelings, curation versus control, and too many choices. Noted Thomas, “When retailers and brands balance the tension, applying emotional intelligence and great merchandising, they will better navigate the mindset of the future consumer to address their needs.”

“Here, we see the push–pull between consumers and brands,” Thomas says. “Sometimes brands should lead consumers forward; but sometimes, the better choice is following consumer behavior. The key is understanding the complex, nuanced, and sometimes unexpected tensions that will crop up next.”

Read the full report by clicking this link.

For more information, or to schedule an interview with Katie Thomas or receive a copy of the Keeping Up with the Consumer report, please contact:

MKPR/Meir Kahtan
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About the Kearney Consumer Institute

The Kearney Consumer Institute (KCI) perspective. By leveraging consumer behavior data and insights, the KCI helps generate conversation, and ultimately action, around how to address consumer needs with meaningful benefits.

Using a consumer-first lens the KCI looks at today’s consumer revolution not by thinking about consumers, but by thinking like consumers. Our consumer-centric approach includes simple, precise, plain-language conversations on topics like trends, consumer communities, convenience, loyalty, service, fair pricing, and product development and technologies.

About Kearney
Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm. For nearly 100 years, we have been a trusted advisor to C-suites, government bodies, and nonprofit organizations. Our people make us who we are. Driven to be the difference between a big idea and making it happen, we work alongside our clients to regenerate their businesses to create a future that works for everyone. www.kearney.com

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GovInvest Reports Triple-Digit Quarterly Growth Fueled by New Customer Wins and Industry Recognition

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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — GovInvest, the pioneer of compensation analytics technology for government agencies, is celebrating a record third quarter in 2024, marked by significant new customer growth, regional expansion, and industry recognition. Over the past quarter (July-September 2024), GovInvest achieved an impressive 125% quarter-over-quarter increase driven by new client partnerships and strengthened relationships with existing customers through expanded solutions.

With its comprehensive suite of labor costing, budgeting, and compensation analytics solutions, GovInvest empowers public sector organizations to streamline operations, bridge the gap between HR and finance, and make smarter workforce decisions. By providing real-time, data-driven insights, the platform helps agencies attract top talent, optimize budgets, and improve employee satisfaction—critical advantages during today’s labor crisis.

Nationwide Customer Growth
Q3 2024 client wins and expansions included new deals in California, Georgia, Ohio, Rhode Island, Iowa, Texas, and Washington. These recent additions highlight GovInvest’s continued momentum in its core California market, where cities like San Bernardino, Beverly Hills, and San Marcos have deepened their use of GovInvest solutions. At the same time, the company is experiencing significant geographic growth, with new clients across diverse regions such as Georgia, Texas, and Washington, demonstrating its expanding national footprint and ability to address the labor costing and budgeting needs of government agencies nationwide.

“We’re excited to see such strong customer growth this past quarter in every geographic market, particularly in the southeast and pacific northwest,” said Michael Fryke, CEO of GovInvest. “This expansion underscores the trust that public sector agencies have in GovInvest’s ability to deliver powerful, data-driven solutions that address their labor costing and budgeting needs. We’re proud to partner with these organizations as they tackle today’s workforce challenges and plan for future success.”

Industry Recognition and Strategic Partnerships
GovInvest’s industry recognition further solidified its leadership in the government services sector. The company was named to the 2024 Inc. 5000 list, ranking 95th in the Government Services sector. This prestigious recognition honors the fastest-growing private companies in America and highlights GovInvest’s rapid growth even amid inflationary pressures and labor market challenges.

“We are deeply humbled by the opportunity to not only make the Inc. 5000 list but to have earned a position within the top 100 Government Services companies,” said Michael Fryke, CEO of GovInvest. “Our success is driven by the dedication of our customers and team, who work tirelessly to provide cutting-edge solutions to help governments make smarter, data-driven workforce decisions.”

In addition, GovInvest announced a strategic partnership with CPS HR Consulting, designed to deliver advanced, technology-driven solutions for compensation consulting. This collaboration further positions GovInvest as a leader in the government services sector, enhancing its value proposition for public sector agencies seeking smarter workforce strategies.

Strengthening Industry Ties
GovInvest’s involvement in key industry events continued to drive its momentum in Q3 2024, including being selected as a sponsor for the PSHRA (Public Sector HR Association) Annual Conference in September. GovInvest showcased its commitment to supporting human resource and public sector professionals with ongoing education and technological innovation.

Customer Webinars Resonating with Agencies
GovInvest’s client webinars also gained traction, with a particular focus on labor costing and workforce planning in the face of inflation and wage compression. The “Effective Labor Negotiations in an Era of Union Empowerment” webinar, featuring Chris Moses, Director of Human Resources for the City of Columbus, OH, provided public agencies with actionable insights into navigating today’s complex labor landscape with GovInvest’s tools. The session resonated with many participants, reinforcing GovInvest’s position as a thought leader in the government analytics space.

“With GovInvest, we’re able to show the unions exactly where we stand financially, making negotiations more transparent,” Moses said. “The trust that we’ve built through these accurate, real-time projections has been invaluable.”

Looking Ahead
As GovInvest looks ahead to continued growth, the company remains dedicated to providing the most advanced labor costing and compensation solutions for government agencies across the country. With a strong foundation of customer success and industry recognition, GovInvest is poised to drive further innovation and transformation in the public sector.

About GovInvest
Founded in 2014, GovInvest empowers over 1,000 public sector agencies nationwide to run their own labor, compensation, and benefits analysis at a fraction of the cost and time through powerful software solutions and hands-on consulting. With a commitment to transparency, efficiency, and equity, GovInvest empowers government leaders to make data-driven decisions, attract top talent, and enhance the effectiveness of their operations. To learn more, visit www.govinvest.com.

CONTACT: Christen Clegg, christen@govinvest.com

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