The Phil Erdberg R-PAS Teaching and Mentorship award recognizes excellence in fostering the growth, knowledge, and mastery of R-PAS in trainees or peers through teaching, training, supervision, or consultation.
The inaugural recipient of the award for 2021 is Philip Erdberg, Ph.D., and the award will bear his name moving forward as, “The Phil Erdberg R-PAS Teaching and Mentorship Award.” Dr. Erdberg epitomizes the spirit of this award through his lifelong commitment to teaching, supervision, and consultation. He has inspired thousands of individuals to think more deeply about the type of information that they can glean from a Rorschach protocol, bringing to life the concepts and constructs embodied in its test scores with insight and wit, and helped them gain enriching insight into the psychology of the clients they seek to help. Dr. Erdberg never met a disagreeable question or a questioner who was anything other than his co-equal in the quest for understanding.
Dr. Erdberg was a diplomate in clinical psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology. He was a past-president of the Society for Personality Assessment, the 1995 recipient of the Society's
Distinguished Contribution Award, and the 2001 recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award of the Forensic Mental Health Association of California. Dr. Erdberg was on the faculty of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and an assistant clinical professor at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine. He was a core member of the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) development team who has worked passionately on advancing its development and teaching it to others.
Dr. Erdberg, left us on April 25, 2023. May his memory be a blessing.
2025 Recipients
Anthony D. Bram
Ali Khadivi
Valerie Krysanski
Doug Roberts
2024 Recipients
Camillo Caputo
Madeleine Starin
2023 Recipients
Marvin Acklin
Jessica Lipkind
Ben Morsa
2022 Recipient
Philip Keddy
2021 Recipient
Philip Erdberg
