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The Austen Fox Riggs Library and Archives is a unique resource, providing clinicians, scholars, and researchers with access to specialized psychological texts and medical archives.
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In Evidence: Measurement-based Care Can Guide Clinical Practice in Psychoanalysis
October 6, 2023
Accreditation Manager Steven Ackerman, PhD, and Director of Research Katie Lewis, PhD, talk about measurement-based care in the treatment of patients in a psychoanalytic residential treatment setting.
Educational Events
Race, Fear, and the American Way
April 24, 2026
Dr. Moore considers the framework of fear and racialization as conceived in the historic work of Frantz Fanon through the work of Afro Futurists who offer language and framing for holding sites of possibility in the Black imaginary in the midst of oppressive conditions of the present.
Dr. Moore considers the framework of fear and racialization as conceived in the historic work of Frantz Fanon through the work of Afro Futurists who offer language and framing for holding sites of possibility in the Black imaginary in the midst of oppressive conditions of the present.
Special Events
Leading from Experience: Finding Your Negative Capability
May 1, 2026
This workshop is designed to strengthen participants’ ability to exercise leadership in a broad range of work roles through finding one's negative capability and taking up a consultative stance.
This workshop is designed to strengthen participants’ ability to exercise leadership in a broad range of work roles through finding one's negative capability and taking up a consultative stance.
Special Events
Dislocated Presences: Technology, the Psyche, and the Meaning of Virtual Space
May 9, 2026
This roundtable (with in-person and virtual attendance options) examines how digital technologies are reshaping psychic life within the context of place and its disembodied absence.
This roundtable (with in-person and virtual attendance options) examines how digital technologies are reshaping psychic life within the context of place and its disembodied absence.
Educational Events
Psychological Assessment and Access: A Multidisciplinary Population Health Approach
May 15, 2026
Dr. Hadas Pade presents about inequitable access to psychological assessments and advocates for a multi-tiered, population health approach using broader providers and earlier, more accessible screenings.
Dr. Hadas Pade presents about inequitable access to psychological assessments and advocates for a multi-tiered, population health approach using broader providers and earlier, more accessible screenings.
Educational Events
Matrix, Environment, Atmosphere: How Mother Became a Medium
June 5, 2026
Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media, this talk by Dr. Hannah Zeavin attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed,” queer, and neurodivergent children.
Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media, this talk by Dr. Hannah Zeavin attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed,” queer, and neurodivergent children.
Educational Events
Xenophobia, War, and the Problem of Social Disorder: Keynote of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group
June 13, 2026
Dr. Markri will speak about how different psychological models, especially psychoanalytic theories of projection, help explain xenophobia and its persistence. Drawing on Freud and Einstein’s exchange “Why War?”, he will explore how social conditions and collective fears contribute to rising ethnonationalism and projected hatred today.
Dr. Markri will speak about how different psychological models, especially psychoanalytic theories of projection, help explain xenophobia and its persistence. Drawing on Freud and Einstein’s exchange “Why War?”, he will explore how social conditions and collective fears contribute to rising ethnonationalism and projected hatred today.
Conferences
Psychosis Care and Connection 2026: A Retreat on Humanistic Approaches
June 25, 2026
A roundtable retreat with the aim of fostering dialogue, sharing approaches to working with psychosis, and nurturing community.
A roundtable retreat with the aim of fostering dialogue, sharing approaches to working with psychosis, and nurturing community.
Educational Events
Links Between Childhood Trauma, Psychosis, the Bayesian Predictive Processing Model of Brain Function, Transference, and the Mind Conceived as a Self-Organizing System
July 17, 2026
Dr. Michael Garrett's presentation will describe how psychotic symptoms can be understood as meaningful expressions of a psychotic person’s past history and current state of mind, manifestations of a person’s subjective world that provide invaluable guides to a person's emotional ailments.
Dr. Michael Garrett's presentation will describe how psychotic symptoms can be understood as meaningful expressions of a psychotic person’s past history and current state of mind, manifestations of a person’s subjective world that provide invaluable guides to a person's emotional ailments.
Educational Events
Resolving Therapeutic Dilemmas in Suicidal Clients Using Principles of Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy
July 24, 2026
Dr. Robert J. Gregory, will share principles and techniques grounded in Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy theory, research, and extensive front-line experience to shed light on complex cases and common therapeutic dilemmas, offering a path forward for both therapists and clients.
Dr. Robert J. Gregory, will share principles and techniques grounded in Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy theory, research, and extensive front-line experience to shed light on complex cases and common therapeutic dilemmas, offering a path forward for both therapists and clients.
Educational Events
How We Conceptualize Disability and Why it Matters Clinically
August 7, 2026
Dr. Rhoda Olkin covers the four models of disability and gives examples of how clients talk within their model, and how that affects their responses to microaggressions.
Dr. Rhoda Olkin covers the four models of disability and gives examples of how clients talk within their model, and how that affects their responses to microaggressions.
Educational Events
Out of Sight, Still in Mind: Intersession Processes and Suicidal Ideation in Psychodynamic Treatment
September 4, 2026
Dr. Mareike Ernst introduces the concept of intersession processes—patients’ thoughts, feelings, fantasies, and internalized experiences of therapy and therapist between sessions—and examines their relevance from a contemporary psychodynamic perspective.
Dr. Mareike Ernst introduces the concept of intersession processes—patients’ thoughts, feelings, fantasies, and internalized experiences of therapy and therapist between sessions—and examines their relevance from a contemporary psychodynamic perspective.
Resource
In Evidence: Measurement-based Care Can Guide Clinical Practice in Psychoanalysis
October 6, 2023
Accreditation Manager Steven Ackerman, PhD, and Director of Research Katie Lewis, PhD, talk about measurement-based care in the treatment of patients in a psychoanalytic residential treatment setting.
Educational Events
Race, Fear, and the American Way
April 24, 2026
Dr. Moore considers the framework of fear and racialization as conceived in the historic work of Frantz Fanon through the work of Afro Futurists who offer language and framing for holding sites of possibility in the Black imaginary in the midst of oppressive conditions of the present.
Dr. Moore considers the framework of fear and racialization as conceived in the historic work of Frantz Fanon through the work of Afro Futurists who offer language and framing for holding sites of possibility in the Black imaginary in the midst of oppressive conditions of the present.
Special Events
Leading from Experience: Finding Your Negative Capability
May 1, 2026
This workshop is designed to strengthen participants’ ability to exercise leadership in a broad range of work roles through finding one's negative capability and taking up a consultative stance.
This workshop is designed to strengthen participants’ ability to exercise leadership in a broad range of work roles through finding one's negative capability and taking up a consultative stance.
Special Events
Dislocated Presences: Technology, the Psyche, and the Meaning of Virtual Space
May 9, 2026
This roundtable (with in-person and virtual attendance options) examines how digital technologies are reshaping psychic life within the context of place and its disembodied absence.
This roundtable (with in-person and virtual attendance options) examines how digital technologies are reshaping psychic life within the context of place and its disembodied absence.
Educational Events
Psychological Assessment and Access: A Multidisciplinary Population Health Approach
May 15, 2026
Dr. Hadas Pade presents about inequitable access to psychological assessments and advocates for a multi-tiered, population health approach using broader providers and earlier, more accessible screenings.
Dr. Hadas Pade presents about inequitable access to psychological assessments and advocates for a multi-tiered, population health approach using broader providers and earlier, more accessible screenings.
Educational Events
Matrix, Environment, Atmosphere: How Mother Became a Medium
June 5, 2026
Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media, this talk by Dr. Hannah Zeavin attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed,” queer, and neurodivergent children.
Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media, this talk by Dr. Hannah Zeavin attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed,” queer, and neurodivergent children.
Educational Events
Xenophobia, War, and the Problem of Social Disorder: Keynote of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group
June 13, 2026
Dr. Markri will speak about how different psychological models, especially psychoanalytic theories of projection, help explain xenophobia and its persistence. Drawing on Freud and Einstein’s exchange “Why War?”, he will explore how social conditions and collective fears contribute to rising ethnonationalism and projected hatred today.
Dr. Markri will speak about how different psychological models, especially psychoanalytic theories of projection, help explain xenophobia and its persistence. Drawing on Freud and Einstein’s exchange “Why War?”, he will explore how social conditions and collective fears contribute to rising ethnonationalism and projected hatred today.
Conferences
Psychosis Care and Connection 2026: A Retreat on Humanistic Approaches
June 25, 2026
A roundtable retreat with the aim of fostering dialogue, sharing approaches to working with psychosis, and nurturing community.
A roundtable retreat with the aim of fostering dialogue, sharing approaches to working with psychosis, and nurturing community.
Educational Events
Links Between Childhood Trauma, Psychosis, the Bayesian Predictive Processing Model of Brain Function, Transference, and the Mind Conceived as a Self-Organizing System
July 17, 2026
Dr. Michael Garrett's presentation will describe how psychotic symptoms can be understood as meaningful expressions of a psychotic person’s past history and current state of mind, manifestations of a person’s subjective world that provide invaluable guides to a person's emotional ailments.
Dr. Michael Garrett's presentation will describe how psychotic symptoms can be understood as meaningful expressions of a psychotic person’s past history and current state of mind, manifestations of a person’s subjective world that provide invaluable guides to a person's emotional ailments.
Educational Events
Resolving Therapeutic Dilemmas in Suicidal Clients Using Principles of Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy
July 24, 2026
Dr. Robert J. Gregory, will share principles and techniques grounded in Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy theory, research, and extensive front-line experience to shed light on complex cases and common therapeutic dilemmas, offering a path forward for both therapists and clients.
Dr. Robert J. Gregory, will share principles and techniques grounded in Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy theory, research, and extensive front-line experience to shed light on complex cases and common therapeutic dilemmas, offering a path forward for both therapists and clients.
Educational Events
How We Conceptualize Disability and Why it Matters Clinically
August 7, 2026
Dr. Rhoda Olkin covers the four models of disability and gives examples of how clients talk within their model, and how that affects their responses to microaggressions.
Dr. Rhoda Olkin covers the four models of disability and gives examples of how clients talk within their model, and how that affects their responses to microaggressions.
Educational Events
Out of Sight, Still in Mind: Intersession Processes and Suicidal Ideation in Psychodynamic Treatment
September 4, 2026
Dr. Mareike Ernst introduces the concept of intersession processes—patients’ thoughts, feelings, fantasies, and internalized experiences of therapy and therapist between sessions—and examines their relevance from a contemporary psychodynamic perspective.
Dr. Mareike Ernst introduces the concept of intersession processes—patients’ thoughts, feelings, fantasies, and internalized experiences of therapy and therapist between sessions—and examines their relevance from a contemporary psychodynamic perspective.
Resource
In Evidence: Measurement-based Care Can Guide Clinical Practice in Psychoanalysis
October 6, 2023
Accreditation Manager Steven Ackerman, PhD, and Director of Research Katie Lewis, PhD, talk about measurement-based care in the treatment of patients in a psychoanalytic residential treatment setting.
Educational Events
Race, Fear, and the American Way
April 24, 2026
Dr. Moore considers the framework of fear and racialization as conceived in the historic work of Frantz Fanon through the work of Afro Futurists who offer language and framing for holding sites of possibility in the Black imaginary in the midst of oppressive conditions of the present.
Dr. Moore considers the framework of fear and racialization as conceived in the historic work of Frantz Fanon through the work of Afro Futurists who offer language and framing for holding sites of possibility in the Black imaginary in the midst of oppressive conditions of the present.
Special Events
Leading from Experience: Finding Your Negative Capability
May 1, 2026
This workshop is designed to strengthen participants’ ability to exercise leadership in a broad range of work roles through finding one's negative capability and taking up a consultative stance.
This workshop is designed to strengthen participants’ ability to exercise leadership in a broad range of work roles through finding one's negative capability and taking up a consultative stance.
Special Events
Dislocated Presences: Technology, the Psyche, and the Meaning of Virtual Space
May 9, 2026
This roundtable (with in-person and virtual attendance options) examines how digital technologies are reshaping psychic life within the context of place and its disembodied absence.
This roundtable (with in-person and virtual attendance options) examines how digital technologies are reshaping psychic life within the context of place and its disembodied absence.
Educational Events
Psychological Assessment and Access: A Multidisciplinary Population Health Approach
May 15, 2026
Dr. Hadas Pade presents about inequitable access to psychological assessments and advocates for a multi-tiered, population health approach using broader providers and earlier, more accessible screenings.
Dr. Hadas Pade presents about inequitable access to psychological assessments and advocates for a multi-tiered, population health approach using broader providers and earlier, more accessible screenings.
Educational Events
Matrix, Environment, Atmosphere: How Mother Became a Medium
June 5, 2026
Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media, this talk by Dr. Hannah Zeavin attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed,” queer, and neurodivergent children.
Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media, this talk by Dr. Hannah Zeavin attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed,” queer, and neurodivergent children.
Educational Events
Xenophobia, War, and the Problem of Social Disorder: Keynote of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group
June 13, 2026
Dr. Markri will speak about how different psychological models, especially psychoanalytic theories of projection, help explain xenophobia and its persistence. Drawing on Freud and Einstein’s exchange “Why War?”, he will explore how social conditions and collective fears contribute to rising ethnonationalism and projected hatred today.
Dr. Markri will speak about how different psychological models, especially psychoanalytic theories of projection, help explain xenophobia and its persistence. Drawing on Freud and Einstein’s exchange “Why War?”, he will explore how social conditions and collective fears contribute to rising ethnonationalism and projected hatred today.
Conferences
Psychosis Care and Connection 2026: A Retreat on Humanistic Approaches
June 25, 2026
A roundtable retreat with the aim of fostering dialogue, sharing approaches to working with psychosis, and nurturing community.
A roundtable retreat with the aim of fostering dialogue, sharing approaches to working with psychosis, and nurturing community.
Educational Events
Links Between Childhood Trauma, Psychosis, the Bayesian Predictive Processing Model of Brain Function, Transference, and the Mind Conceived as a Self-Organizing System
July 17, 2026
Dr. Michael Garrett's presentation will describe how psychotic symptoms can be understood as meaningful expressions of a psychotic person’s past history and current state of mind, manifestations of a person’s subjective world that provide invaluable guides to a person's emotional ailments.
Dr. Michael Garrett's presentation will describe how psychotic symptoms can be understood as meaningful expressions of a psychotic person’s past history and current state of mind, manifestations of a person’s subjective world that provide invaluable guides to a person's emotional ailments.
Educational Events
Resolving Therapeutic Dilemmas in Suicidal Clients Using Principles of Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy
July 24, 2026
Dr. Robert J. Gregory, will share principles and techniques grounded in Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy theory, research, and extensive front-line experience to shed light on complex cases and common therapeutic dilemmas, offering a path forward for both therapists and clients.
Dr. Robert J. Gregory, will share principles and techniques grounded in Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy theory, research, and extensive front-line experience to shed light on complex cases and common therapeutic dilemmas, offering a path forward for both therapists and clients.
Educational Events
How We Conceptualize Disability and Why it Matters Clinically
August 7, 2026
Dr. Rhoda Olkin covers the four models of disability and gives examples of how clients talk within their model, and how that affects their responses to microaggressions.
Dr. Rhoda Olkin covers the four models of disability and gives examples of how clients talk within their model, and how that affects their responses to microaggressions.
Educational Events
Out of Sight, Still in Mind: Intersession Processes and Suicidal Ideation in Psychodynamic Treatment
September 4, 2026
Dr. Mareike Ernst introduces the concept of intersession processes—patients’ thoughts, feelings, fantasies, and internalized experiences of therapy and therapist between sessions—and examines their relevance from a contemporary psychodynamic perspective.
Dr. Mareike Ernst introduces the concept of intersession processes—patients’ thoughts, feelings, fantasies, and internalized experiences of therapy and therapist between sessions—and examines their relevance from a contemporary psychodynamic perspective.