Three Problems with Current Clinical Models – Eric M. Plakun, at the Austen Riggs Center Centennial Conference

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February 26, 2020

This video series is taken from our Centennial Conference and features excerpts from many of the presentations – check back often or bookmark the Riggs Blog to see new videos.

“There is an excessive focus on the biomedical at the expense of the biopsychosocial. . . . there are false assumptions that genes equal disease, that patients have single disorders that respond to single evidence-based treatments, that pills are the best treatment that we have.” states Dr. Plakun.

View more of Dr. Plakun’s remarks from his presentations, including the topics outlined below.

· The Bias Against Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

· Recovery is the Goal of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment

· Managed Care and Mental Health Treatment

· Mental Health Parity: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches

Eric M. Plakun, MD, DLFAPA, is the medical director/CEO at the Austen Riggs Center and American Psychiatric Association (APA) Board of Trustees member representing New England and Eastern Canada.

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Suicide: Four Protective Factors – Jane G. Tillman, PhD, at the Austen Riggs Center Centennial Conference

This video series is taken from our Centennial Conference and features excerpts from many of the presentations – check back often or bookmark the Riggs Blog to see new videos.

“At Riggs, in our Therapeutic Community Program, and in individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy, we emphasize the importance of relationships, connection, responsibility for oneself in connection to others, and engage the crucial cycle of rupture and repair that may over time create the conditions for increased resilience and reasons for living,” states Dr. Tillman.

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Working Together to Leverage Political Power – Health Care Lawyer and People with Disabilities Advocate Ted Kennedy Jr. at the Austen Riggs Center Centennial Conference

“It’s when you work together in a team, in a coordinated way that you can really leverage your power. And people with disabilities, with mental health conditions and physical health conditions have a lot more political power than we think we might,” remarks Ted Kennedy Jr., Esq. in these select remarks from his presentation.

Nancy McWilliams, PhD, spoke at the Austen Riggs Center's 2019 Fall Conference: The Mental Health Crisis in America.

What Can Psychoanalysis Offer Psychiatry? Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, and Author Nancy McWilliams at the Austen Riggs Center Centennial Conference

Psychoanalysis “looks holistically and unflinchingly at complex phenomena that contemporary trends are fragmenting” remarks Dr. Nancy McWilliams in these select remarks from her presentation, “Standing for Reality: What Really Matters in Psychotherapy.”

Tom Insel, MD, gave a keynote presentation at the Austen Riggs Center's Centennial Conference: The Mental Health Crisis in America.

New (and Old) Solutions to the Mental Health Crisis. Former NIMH Director Tom Insel at the Austen Riggs Center Centennial Conference

Moving the needle on the mental health crisis demands new (and old) solutions, argues Tom Insel, MD, in these select remarks from his keynote presentation, “Beyond Magical Thinking.”

Children with ADHD as the “Bad” Other? Rutgers University’s Francine Conway at the Austen Riggs Center Centennial Conference

This video series is taken from our Centennial Conference and features excerpts from many of the presentations – check back often or bookmark the Riggs Blog to see new videos.

Can a psychodynamic approach work for children with ADHD? Francine Conway, PhD, makes the case in support of that position in these select remarks from her presentation, “The ADHD Compassion Project: Dispelling the Illusion of Children with ADHD as the ‘Bad’ Other.”

Peter Fonagy, PhD, gave a keynote presentation at the Austen Riggs Center's Centennial Conference: The Mental Health Crisis in America.

Community and Our Capacity to Learn and Trust: Peter Fonagy at the Austen Riggs Center Centennial Conference

Select remarks from Peter Fonagy’s keynote address, “The Consequences of Losing Epistemic Trust: A Perspective from the UK on Mental Disorders that Persist and Resist Treatment.”

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