ICSW Achievement Spotlight
We would like to share the recent accolades of some of our ICSW Faculty, Students and Alumni. These include awards, publications, events or honors that have been recognized in the community.
Bobbie Davis, Ph.D., LCSW, RPT-S
Bobbie M. Davis is a Clinical Social Work/Therapist , PhD, LCSW, and is an ICSW Alumni. Bobbie specializes in the counseling of Trauma and PTSD, Child or Adolescent, Sexual Abuse, etc. Bobbie recently gave two presentations at the beginning of this year and we would like to spotlight those here. You can find information about the events in the links below.
Sharon Berlin, Ph.D. Student
Current ICSW Ph.D. student, Sharon Berlin recently published an article with Dr. Molly Witten in the Psychoanalytic Social Work journal that deserves a spotlight. You can find a link to the publication below.
Edie Hitchcock, Ph.D., LCPC
The Lee Jaffe Candidates’ Council Paper Prize is a long-standing annual writing competition for APsA candidates, designed to support the development of new psychoanalytic writers. The 2025 prize winner is Dr. Edie Hitchcock for her paper, “The Excessive Polycule: Polyamory as an Expression of the Death Drive”. The paper examines the contemporary cultural practice of polyamory as it may arise in the consulting room, uses Kleinian and Lacanian conceptions of the death drive to illuminate work with a patient in a distressing polyamorous relationship. This paper examines how polyamory can represent a paradoxical attempt to subvert a hierarchical social order by re-presenting all relationships as lateral and can work via the death drive to disavow lack and ambivalence while both promising and promoting life-in-excess-of-life.