Erikson Scholar-in-Residence Position

In the early 1980s, 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.

The Institute is currently seeking applications for Scholar-In-Residence positions for 3½-month appointments. Scholars are invited into the clinical and intellectual life of the Center through interactive work on their proposed projects, teaching, and presentations to the local community of practitioners and scholars. Applications from the fields of anthropology, history, law, literary criticism, political science, sociology and other relevant disciplines are invited. Early career applications are welcome as well. The position includes a stipend, housing, secretarial support, and access to the Center’s library.

To apply, please send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, proposed project description, a recent publication related to the project, and a statement indicating how interaction with the Center’s clinical work would be important to the project’s development. For further information, and to submit an application: Jane Tillman, Ph.D., Erikson Scholar Search Committee Chair, Box 962, Stockbridge, MA 01262, or email jane.tillman@austenriggs.net.