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Psychiatric News Examines “Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry in America”
November 15, 2019
An exploration of the development of psychoanalysis in North America in the November 1 issues of Psychiatric News.
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Technology, Psychoanalysis, and Desire: An Interview with Professor Alessandra Lemma
October 26, 2018
During a visit to the Austen Riggs Center earlier this year, Alessandra Lemma, MPhil, DClin Psych, spoke with us about a number of topics including technology; the relevance today of psychoanalytic approaches to understanding problems with technology, identity, and desire; and she offered some advice to parents about children’s technology use.

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Press Releases
Alessandra Lemma, MPhil, DClin Psych, to present Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture "Under the Skin: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Body Modification" at the Austen Riggs Center
April 3, 2018
The Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center is pleased to announce the upcoming Yasmin Roberts Memorial Friday Night Guest Lecture: “Under the Skin: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Body Modification” with Alessandra Lemma, MPhil, DClin Psych: Friday, April 6, from 6:30-8:00 p.m.
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Does Our Treatment Work?
August 24, 2017
Scientific evidence supports the comprehensive treatment for complex psychiatric problems available at the Austen Riggs Center.
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Announcements
Riggs Clinicians to Present at Upcoming AAPDP and APA Annual Meetings
May 3, 2017
Later this month, Riggs clinicians will be presenting in San Diego, CA, at the 2017 Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry (AAPDP) and the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Riggs will also be exhibiting at the APA annual meeting.
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The Austen Riggs Fellowship - In-Depth Training and Career Experience
April 14, 2017
Heather Churchill, PsyD, Fellow in Psychology, talks about the in-depth training and career experience offered by the Fellowship Program at the Austen Riggs Center.

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Treatment of Major Depression at the Austen Riggs Center: An Integrated and Personalized Treatment Approach
November 2, 2016
Over the last several decades, the mainstream psychiatric understanding and treatment of major depression has increasingly been seen through the lens of neurobiology: a problem of chemical imbalance, for which the first line treatment is often the correction of the chemical imbalance with antidepressant medications.
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Psychological Testing as Part of the Fellowship Program at Riggs
October 19, 2016
Director of Psychological Testing Christina Biedermann, PsyD, talks about the weekly Psych Testing Seminar that is an integral component throughout the four years of the Psychology Fellowship at the Austen Riggs Center.

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A New Blog Where Meaning Really Matters
October 13, 2016
Meaning Matters is an online community, hosted by the Austen Riggs Center, that provides a place for mental health professionals and those in related disciplines to share information and thinking about a variety of topics. These include: human behavior and how it is impacted by conscious and unconscious processes, personality and motivational factors, relational dynamics, and the meaning of symptoms.

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Perspectives on Psychiatric Diagnosis
October 5, 2016
The field is learning that psychiatric diagnosis is not as straightforward as in the rest of medicine and surgery, where making the single right diagnosis points toward the likely effective treatment.
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