Erikson Scholar-in-Residence Position

In the early 1980’s, the Austen Riggs Center created an endowed position to honor and extend Professor Erik Erikson’s legacy of contribution to psychoanalysis and other disciplines. The Center’s clinical program aims toward helping "treatment-resistant" patients become people taking charge of their lives. It focuses on how a person’s very troubled experience evolves, what it contains for others, and how it shapes - and is shaped by - society and culture.

The Erikson Institute for Education and Research attempts to give voice to the learning from this unusual clinical experience, and to apply it, in collaboration with other disciplines, to problems of the larger society. To that end, we invite applications for the Erikson Scholar position from academicians, clinicians and other professionals whose research might enrich and be enriched by our clinical program.

Erikson Scholars are in residence at the Center. Positions are available in the fall and spring of each year. Cohorts of Erikson Scholars work together and with the clinical staff in a variety of ways. Arrangements include a stipend, housing, office space and secretarial assistance.

Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a description of the proposed project, a publication by the applicant that provides background for the project, and a statement indicating in what way interaction with the Center’s clinical work is important to the development of the project. For further information, to explore possible candidacy or to apply, please contact Jane Tillman, Ph.D., Erikson Scholar Search Committee Chair, Box 962, Stockbridge, MA 01262, or email jane.tillman@austenriggs.net.