Past Scholars

September 2010 – December 2010

Ann Marie Plane, Ph. D., Psy.D. is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and she is a graduate member of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. She is the author of one book, Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England (Cornell U. P., 2000), and her current research explores dreams and visions as they reveal the processes of colonization in seventeenth-century New England, forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press.

February 2010 – May 2010

Bernard Reginster, Ph.D. is the Professor and Chair of Philosophy Department, Brown University, Providence, RI. Professor Reginster's research focuses on issues in ethics, moral psychology, and philosophy of mind in 19th and 20th century continental philosophy. He has written a number of articles on Nietzsche and 19th century ethics, and a book, The Affirmation of Life. Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism (Harvard Press, 2006). He is a current member of the Erikson Council of Scholars.

July 2009 – August 2009

Jessica Stern, Ph.D. is Lecturer and Academic Director of the Program on Terrorism and the Law at Harvard Law School. A member of Hoover Institution’s Task Force on National Security and Law, she is the author of Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, selected by the New York Times as a notable book of the year, The Ultimate Terrorists, and numerous articles on terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. She served on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff in 1994-95, and was selected by Time Magazine in 2001 as one of seven thinkers whose innovative ideas “will change the world.” Professor Stern advises a number of government agencies on issues related to terrorism and was recognized by FBI Director Robert Mueller for her assistance to the U.S. government in its effort to thwart international terrorism. She was named a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, a National Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and a Harvard MacArthur Fellow. She earlier worked as an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

January 2009 – April 2009

Mark Lipton, Ph.D. is the Professor of Management at the New School in New York City. He is currently director of the Tenenbaum Leadership Initiative, is the author of Guiding Growth: How Vision Keeps Companies on Course (Harvard Business School Press, 2003) and his research and opinions on management and strategy have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Journal of Management Consulting, Optimize, Executive Excellence, and Organization Development Journal, among others. His research at Riggs focused on entrepreneurship and its pathologies.

September 2008 – December 2008

Ellen Handler Spitz, Ph.D. is the Honors College Professor of Visual Art at the University of Maryland. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy and the Social Sciences from Columbia and her Masters degree in the teaching of the Fine Arts from Harvard. She has held a number of Fellowships, including at the Clark Art Institute, the Rutgers University Center for Children and Childhood Studies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the Sigmund Freud Center for Study and Research in Psychoanalysis at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a widely published author, whose several books include Image and Insight: Psychoanalysis and the Arts and most recently The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood.

Related links
http://www.ellenhandlerspitz.net/
http://www.amazon.com/Ellen-Handler-Spitz/e/B001H6PZJM

September 2007 – September 2008

David Reiss, M.D. received his AB and MD from Harvard and his psychoanalytic training from the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute where he has been a Teaching Analyst. He is formerly the Director of the Center for Family Research and the Division of Psychiatric Research at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, is the author of over 160 scientific papers as well as six books including The Relationship Code: Deciphering Genetic and Social Influences on Adolescent Development (with Jenae Neiderheiser, Mavis Hetherington and Robert Plomin, Harvard, 2000) and principal investigator on many NIH grants investigating family relationships and genetic mechanisms in human development across the life span. He worked collaboratively with Edward Shapiro at the Austen Riggs Center, on adapting research designs for evaluating process and outcome of long-term care of patients in a psychodynamically-oriented therapeutic community; and with Linda Mayes, Mary Target and Peter Fonagy at the Yale Child Study Center and the Anna Freud Center in London on integrating psychoanalytic thinking with genetics and family systems into programs of research on preventive intervention; and is consultant on genetics to the National Institute on Aging.

Related links
http://childstudycenter.yale.edu/faculty_people/david_reiss-2.profile
http://www.oslc.org/scientists/popups-scientist/reiss-david.html

July 2008 – August 2008

Shmuel Erlich, Ph.D. is the Sigmund Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and the President of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. Dr. Erlich is a psychoanalysts and innovative leader in the field of group relations. He is widely published and very involved with psychoanalytic education internationally. Dr. Erlich was a Fellow at the Austen Riggs Center in the late 1960s.

March 2006 – August 2006

Arthur Wesley Carr, Ph.D. is the retired Dean of Westminster Abbey, an experienced group relations consultant and author, having written extensively in the areas of pastoral care, the church in society, and the dynamics of groups and organizations. He is the co-author of Lost in Familiar Places (Yale University Press, 1991) and a former member of the Erikson Council of Scholars.

September 2005 – December 2005

James Gilligan, M.D. is a Visiting Professor of Psychiatry and Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania; Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor, New York University; President, Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence.

July 2005 – July 2006

J. Christopher Perry, M.D., M.P. H. is a Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University; Director of Psychotherapy Research, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal; a former Research Affiliate of the Erikson Institute.

July 2005 – August 2005

Donna Bentolila, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst originally from Argentina and currently practicing in Boca Raton, Florida. She is a member of the Lacan Clinical Forum. Her work at Riggs involved a clinical study of her treatment of a very disturbed patient.

Erikson Scholars 1985 - 2005

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P., 2000), and her current research explores dreams and visions as they reveal the processes of colonization in seventeenth-century New England, forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press. Related links http://www.history.ucsb.edu/people/person.php?account_id=46 http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=3390 February 2010 – May 2010 Bernard Reginster, Ph.D. is the Professor and Chair of Philosophy Department, Brown University, Providence, RI. Professor Reginster's research focuses on issues in ethics, moral psychology, and philosophy of mind in 19th and 20th century continental philosophy. He has written a number of articles on Nietzsche and 19th century ethics, and a book, The Affirmation of Life. Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism (Harvard Press, 2006). He is a current member of the Erikson Council of Scholars. Related link http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Bernard_Reginster July 2009 – August 2009 Jessica Stern, Ph.D. is Lecturer and Academic Director of the Program on Terrorism and the Law at Harvard Law School. A member of Hoover Institution’s Task Force on National Security and Law, she is the author of Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, selected by the New York Times as a notable book of the year, The Ultimate Terrorists, and numerous articles on terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. She served on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff in 1994-95, and was selected by Time Magazine in 2001 as one of seven thinkers whose innovative ideas “will change the world.” Professor Stern advises a number of government agencies on issues related to terrorism and was recognized by FBI Director Robert Mueller for her assistance to the U.S. government in its effort to thwart international terrorism. She was named a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, a National Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and a Harvard MacArthur Fellow. She earlier worked as an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Related links http://jessicasternbooks.com/books/denial/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Stern http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/terrorism-and-national-security/15_stern.html http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/terrorism-and-national-security/15_stern.html http://www.veteranjournal.com/dr-jessica-stern-and-her-new-book-denial/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQzfmTxyXR8 January 2009 – April 2009 Mark Lipton, Ph.D. is the Professor of Management at the New School in New York City. He is currently director of the Tenenbaum Leadership Initiative, is the author of Guiding Growth: How Vision Keeps Companies on Course (Harvard Business School Press, 2003) and his research and opinions on management and strategy have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Journal of Management Consulting, Optimize, Executive Excellence, and Organization Development Journal, among others. His research at Riggs focused on entrepreneurship and its pathologies. Related link http://www.newschool.edu/milano/faculty.aspx?id=20146 September 2008 – December 2008 Ellen Handler Spitz, Ph.D. is the Honors College Professor of Visual Art at the University of Maryland. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy and the Social Sciences from Columbia and her Masters degree in the teaching of the Fine Arts from Harvard. She has held a number of Fellowships, including at the Clark Art Institute, the Rutgers University Center for Children and Childhood Studies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the Sigmund Freud Center for Study and Research in Psychoanalysis at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a widely published author, whose several books include Image and Insight: Psychoanalysis and the Arts and most recently The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood. Related links http://www.ellenhandlerspitz.net/ http://www.amazon.com/Ellen-Handler-Spitz/e/B001H6PZJM September 2007 – September 2008 David Reiss, M.D. received his AB and MD from Harvard and his psychoanalytic training from the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute where he has been a Teaching Analyst. He is formerly the Director of the Center for Family Research and the Division of Psychiatric Research at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, is the author of over 160 scientific papers as well as six books including The Relationship Code: Deciphering Genetic and Social Influences on Adolescent Development (with Jenae Neiderheiser, Mavis Hetherington and Robert Plomin, Harvard, 2000) and principal investigator on many NIH grants investigating family relationships and genetic mechanisms in human development across the life span. He worked collaboratively with Edward Shapiro at the Austen Riggs Center, on adapting research designs for evaluating process and outcome of long-term care of patients in a psychodynamically-oriented therapeutic community; and with Linda Mayes, Mary Target and Peter Fonagy at the Yale Child Study Center and the Anna Freud Center in London on integrating psychoanalytic thinking with genetics and family systems into programs of research on preventive intervention; and is consultant on genetics to the National Institute on Aging. Related links http://childstudycenter.yale.edu/faculty_people/david_reiss-2.profile http://www.oslc.org/scientists/popups-scientist/reiss-david.html July 2008 – August 2008 Shmuel Erlich, Ph.D. is the Sigmund Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and the President of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. Dr. Erlich is a psychoanalysts and innovative leader in the field of group relations. He is widely published and very involved with psychoanalytic education internationally. Dr. Erlich was a Fellow at the Austen Riggs Center in the late 1960s. Related links http://psychology.huji.ac.il/en/?cmd=Faculty.125&act=read&id=71 http://www.pij.org/authors.php?id=433 http://www.forward.com/authors/shmuel-erlich/ http://www.pij.org/details.php?id=692 http://www.sigourneyaward.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=67 March 2006 – August 2006 Arthur Wesley Carr, Ph.D. is the retired Dean of Westminster Abbey, an experienced group relations consultant and author, having written extensively in the areas of pastoral care, the church in society, and the dynamics of groups and organizations. He is the co-author of Lost in Familiar Places (Yale University Press, 1991) and a former member of the Erikson Council of Scholars. Related links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Carr http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/1917597.stm http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300057874 September 2005 – December 2005 James Gilligan, M.D. is a Visiting Professor of Psychiatry and Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania; Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor, New York University; President, Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence. Related links http://www.prisoncommission.org/commissioners_gilligan.asp http://tj.facinghistory.org/video/james-gilligan-facing-past-in-us http://www.randomhouse.com/book/60198/violence-by-james-gilligan http://www.primal-page.com/violence.htm July 2005 – July 2006 J. Christopher Perry, M.D., M.P. H. is a Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University; Director of Psychotherapy Research, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal; a former Research Affiliate of the Erikson Institute. Related links http://www.psychiatricannalsonline.com/view.asp?rid=38768 http://www.austenriggs.org/resources/journal-of-nervous-and-mental-study/ July 2005 – August 2005 Donna Bentolila, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst originally from Argentina and currently practicing in Boca Raton, Florida. She is a member of the Lacan Clinical Forum. Her work at Riggs involved a clinical study of her treatment of a very disturbed patient. Erikson Scholars 1985 - 2005
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