Erikson Institute

Professional Publications

Including full text published journal articles, abstracts and links and citations sorted by date of publication.

Responding to Clinicians After Loss of a Patient to Suicide

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October 2005

When a patient commits suicide, the emotional impact on all concerned, including his/her psychiatrist can be devastating.

Personality and Symptom Change in Treatment-Refractory Inpatients: Evaluation of the Phase Model of Change Using Rorschach, TAT, and DSM–IV Axis V

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November 2008

In this study, we examined global treatment outcomes during 16 months of intensive, psychodynamic treatment for 77 inpatients suffering from treatment-refractory disorders.

Residential Psychotherapeutic Treatment: An Intensive Psychodynamic Approach for Patients With Treatment-Resistant Disorders

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November 2008

The Textbook of Hospital Psychiatry, written by 70 national experts and clinical specialists, covers a wide range of clinical and administrative topics central to today’s practice of hospital psychiatry.

A study in the Jan. 2009 issue of Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease reveals hope for recovery from suicidal and self destructive phenomena in treatment resistant mental illness

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January 2009

In 1992, the Austen Riggs Center began to a multi-dimensional research study which followed 226 newly admitted patients. The study investigated many basic questions, including: Do chronically suicidal patients fully recover, and if so, how?