Registration for Remote Access IOP Summer Program Now Open
Nestled in the Berkshires, the Austen Riggs Center is unlike most mental health treatment centers. Here in our open setting in western Massachusetts, you’ll find the space and support you need to understand your problems, find your voice, and make your way forward.
Our Approach to Your Treatment
We are a psychiatric residential treatment facility with a different approach: We treat the person, not just the diagnosis. Our caring experts work with you to illuminate the stories behind your symptoms. Time, space, and support for reflection can lead you to better understand yourself and your relationships, enabling you to address a range of issues and build a more satisfying life.
Admission Process
If other treatments haven’t worked, Riggs may be right for you. Unlike some other psychiatric hospitals in Massachusetts or elsewhere, our relational, patient-centered treatment approach addresses underlying issues, not just symptoms.
Speak With Admissions
From first contact to consultation, follow the steps in our admission process.
Fresh Insights and a Century of Expertise
The Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center is about the advancement of knowledge. We offer a postdoctoral fellowship in psychoanalysis for psychiatrists and psychologists. Staff publish clinical research and scholarship, our faculty present and teach around the world, and the Institute offers national and international professional education. Outreach and advocacy are also important aspects of the Erikson Institute.
Educational Events
Relationship & Resilience: A Framework for Practice
August 19, 2022
1 CME/CE Credit Offered. Free Virtual Grand Rounds with Kate Wheeler PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN, who will apply resilience and relationship as a framework for practice.
1 CME/CE Credit Offered. Free Virtual Grand Rounds with Kate Wheeler PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN, who will apply resilience and relationship as a framework for practice.
Conferences
The Role of Psychic Pain in Suicide Risk and Recovery
September 9, 2022
Katie C. Lewis, PhD, gives the afternoon keynote address at the 2022 Suicide Prevention Conference sponsored by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
Katie C. Lewis, PhD, gives the afternoon keynote address at the 2022 Suicide Prevention Conference sponsored by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
Conferences
Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere: Politics of Identity
September 24, 2022
Riggs clinician Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, presents at a roundtable discussion at this virtual conference from David Morgan and Kurt Jacobsen of Free Associations Journal in partnership with the Freud Museum.
Riggs clinician Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, presents at a roundtable discussion at this virtual conference from David Morgan and Kurt Jacobsen of Free Associations Journal in partnership with the Freud Museum.