The Austen Riggs Center is committed to the education of future generations of psychiatrists and psychologists in the values and skills of psychodynamic thought and treatment. To accomplish this part of its mission, Riggs, through its Erikson Institute, offers post-graduate Fellowships in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalytic studies.

The Fellowship is two years in duration with the option of an Advanced Fellowship for two additional years. A majority of Fellows opt to continue into advanced training to complete our psychoanalytic studies program.

The program includes supervised work in intensive individual psychotherapy with quite troubled patients, group consultation, family work, therapeutic community work, psychological testing, psychopharmacology, case conferences and a curriculum of didactic seminars.  Fellows come to learn, among many other things, the importance of conceptualizing developmental issues and attending to inter-generational trauma. 

This robust, in-depth program prepares Fellows to work effectively with serious and often inadequately treated mental illness, to train and supervise others, to manage a complex treatment setting and to contribute to the body of knowledge about disturbed development and its treatment.  In addition, it teaches Fellows to think across disciplines and to consider how their learning might be applied more broadly.

For Psychiatric Fellows, the prerequisite is completion of a psychiatric residency. Prerequisites for the Psychology Fellowship are a doctoral degree in psychology and a year's clinical internship, both of which must be from APA approved programs.

The Fellowship offers a generous compensation and benefits package, including support for the first two years of a personal psychoanalysis.

Now accepting applications for the Psychiatry Fellowship. For more information on the Fellowship Program contact Bertha Connelley, at (413) 931-5206.