Here you will find video excerpts and full presentations of Riggs clinicians and invited guests speaking on a wide variety of important mental health topics.
View full presentations from the 2016 Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media Colloquy featuring prize winners: Benedict Carey, Neal Shusterman, and Steve Silberman.
This three-lecture course is an introduction to psychodynamic systems theory taught by Edward R. Shapiro, MD, former medical director/CEO and senior consultant to the Erikson Institute for Education and Research.
Marilyn Charles, PhD, staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center, is currently serving as the president of Division 39. In April 2015, the Division convened its annual meeting. Dr. Charles provided a talk, titled “The Future of Psychoanalysis.”
View full presentations from the 2015 Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media Colloquy featuring prize winners: Alison Bechdel, Stephanie McCrummen and William Todd Schultz.
Megan V. Smith, DrPH, assistant professor of psychiatry, child study and public health at the Yale University School of Medicine, and principal investigator of the New Haven Mental Health Outreach for MotherS (MOMS) Partnership, presented at the Austen Riggs Center about the importance of providing diapers to mothers.
David Finkel, winner of the 2014 Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Coverage by the Media, tells several compelling and intimate stories from his most recent book Thank You for Your Service, about soldiers who are trying to adjust to life back home after having been exposed to some of the horrors of war.