Scholarships
Nancy Smith
The Nancy A. Smith Scholarship Award has generously been set up by one of Nancy’s clients, a Candidate of ICP.
Nancy A. Smith, Psy.D. was an esteemed colleague, Training Analyst and Faculty Member of ICP. Nancy passed away on December 3, 2008 after she valiantly struggled for 18 months after being diagnosis with Stage 4 Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer; she was 61.
When Nancy became a Candidate at ICP in the very early 90s, she had already developed a successful practice in Orange County as a psychoanalytically-oriented Psy.D. psychologist known for her gifts in psychodrama. Nancy was immediately active as a candidate, participating in the COC and serving a term as Candidate representative to the ICP Board of Directors.
Nancy had an indepth interest in Sandor Ferenczi, and this interest consolidated into her graduation paper, Orpha Reviving: Musing about Sandor Ferenczi, Elizabeth Severn and the Treatment of Trauma, was awarded the Daphne S. Stolorow Memorial Essay Prize for excellence in psychoanalytic scholarship, in 1998 (the year of its inception; Nancy was the inaugural recipient). From Ferenczi's Clinical Diary, Nancy took up his notion that the fear and anxiety of explicit trauma are transformed by "moments of extreme danger" into an intelligence "detach[ed] from the ego and even perhaps from all affects."
Nancy's elaborated concept of "Orphic functioning" was demonstrated to have great clinical applicability, and became appropriately influential not only in her subsequent supervisions and courses at ICP and at the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute but among the larger international community of Ferenczi scholars and enthusiasts. Her presentations at Ferenczi conferences in Madrid (Spain), Tel Aviv (Israel), New York (USA), Budapest (Hungary) and Turin (Italy) were enthusiastically received, as was her participation in a one-day Ferenczi conference at ICP in February of 2000. These papers were subsequently published and remain in demand among those engaged with the treatment of extreme trauma, and with the life and work of Sandor Ferenczi.
A revised version of Nancy's Stolorow Award paper was published as From Oedipus to Orpha:Revisiting Ferenczi and Severn's Landmark Case, in The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 59, No. 4, 1999, pp 345-366.
Nancy took great pleasure in her work behind the camera, both still and video; her multi-media presentations delighted students in her Ferenczi classes and deserve to be more widely seen. In recent years, the twin gargoyles of distance and traffic (she lived in Yorba Linda and practiced in Orange) dissuaded her from continuing the previous decade's more active participation at ICP. She cherished the company of friends, colleagues, and neighbors collected over many years, some of whom in each category were vitally helpful to Nancy in her often grueling treatments of the last 18 months. The light of Nancy's life was being with her sister Brenda, along with Brenda's husband Dave and their sons Michael and Gregory, which happened in abundance in the last decade or so.
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Scholarship Criteria
Scholarship for Tuition & Supervision
You may apply for this scholarship under one or more of the outlined criteria:
1. Be a single parent, any age, not gender specific in need of financial assistance to attend ICP’s 4 year academic program.
2. Attend ICP’s 4 year academic program – student will be living with and caring for a spouse, child or parent who is dealing with a serious illness.
3. Attend ICP’s 4 year academic program and you are suffering from a serious illness or injury that requires financial assistance to continue with ICP in this program.
4. A woman over the age of 40 in need of financial assistance to attend ICP 4 year academic program.
5. A Candidate who is heavily involved providing service to the under privileged or to the high risk populations.
6. A Candidate in supervision working on three cases concurrently who can demonstrate financial need. Supervision will not be more than $125 per session. Supervisor will agree in writing to this amount.
This scholarship is available on a one-time per person basis, except under extenuating circumstances determined by the ICP Board of Directors. Scholarship funds will not be disbursed directly to recipient, but to ICP or ICP supervisor.
This scholarship amount will be determined and administered by the ICP Board of Directors.
The above criteria must be verified.
Contact ICP staff to request a scholarship application. (310) 207-8441.