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  • Suicide Awareness Month

    Suicide Prevention Awareness on the Radio

    October 2, 2019

    Austen Riggs Center staff members Katie Lewis, PhD, and Lee Watroba spoke on local radio programs about suicide prevention awareness. 

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  • Austen Riggs Center Summer 2019 newsletter, celebrating the opening of “The Hospital on Main Street” exhibition, exploring the freedom to pursue recovery, and remembering Richard Q. Ford, PhD.

    ARC News – Summer 2019 (Volume 12, Issue 2)

    August 21, 2019

    Austen Riggs Center Summer 2019 newsletter, celebrating the opening of “The Hospital on Main Street” exhibition, exploring the freedom to pursue recovery, and remembering Richard Q. Ford, PhD.

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  • David Mintz, MD, is the Director of Psychiatric Education, the Associate Director of Training, and a Team Leader.

    Austen Riggs Center’s David Mintz, MD, authors piece on APA Psychotherapy Caucus for Psychiatric News

    August 9, 2019

    Austen Riggs Center’s Director of Psychiatric Education David Mintz, MD, recently authored a piece about the APA Caucus on Psychotherapy and its meeting at the 2019 APA Annual Meeting in San Francisco that appears in the August 2, 2019 issue of Psychiatric News.  

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  • Austen Riggs Center Medical Director/CEO Eric M. Plakun, MD, offers remarks on the burial of a time capsule to commemorate Riggs’ centennial.

    On the Placement of a Time Capsule at the Austen Riggs Center

    July 24, 2019

    On Sunday, July 21, 2019, the Austen Riggs Center marked the official 100-year anniversary of its founding with a Founding Day celebration for current and former staff, patients, and Board of Trustee members. As part of the celebration, a time capsule–its contents curated by current staff and patients–was buried and Medical Director/CEO Eric M. Plakun, MD, offered these remarks.

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  • Eric M. Plakun, MD, DLFAPA, FACPsych, Associate Medical Director and Director of Admissions

    Dr. Eric M. Plakun’s Psychotherapy Column in the Journal of Psychiatric Practice

    July 17, 2019

    In November of 2016, Dr. Eric M. Plakun’s first piece as psychotherapy columnist for the Journal of Psychiatric Practice was published. You can read this piece and his more recent columns here.

     
     
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  • Austen Riggs Center’s Dr. Jane G. Tillman talks with Norman Rockwell Museum’s Stephanie Plunket about Erik Erikson and Norman Rockwell’s relationship.

    Rockwell and Erikson’s Relationship the Topic of Lecture at the Norman Rockwell Museum

    July 10, 2019

    Riggs staff member Jane G. Tillman, PhD, along with Norman Rockwell’s Deputy Director/Chief Curator, Stephanie Plunkett, kicked off the Art, Love, and Identity Lecture Series at the Norman Rockwell Museum on Tuesday, July 9, exploring the therapeutic friendship of illustrator Norman Rockwell and psychoanalyst Erik Erikson and highlighting shared themes in their work relationship. You can view the lecture in its entirety.

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  • After an extensive national search, the Austen Riggs Center has hired John Zollinger as the director of communications.

    Austen Riggs Center Announces John Zollinger as Director of Communications

    June 28, 2019

    After an extensive national search, the Austen Riggs Center has hired John Zollinger, a seasoned journalist and non-profit marketing and fundraising professional, to serve as the Center’s director of communications, the organization announced today.

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  • Heather Forouhar Graff, MD, is a psychiatry Fellow in psychoanalytic studies at the Austen Riggs Center.

    Riggs Fellowship: Long-Term Benefits for Psychiatrists

    June 12, 2019

    Dr. Heather Forouhar Graff, a psychiatry Fellow at the Austen Riggs Center, talks about some of the long-term benefits for psychiatry Fellows who train and practice in Riggs’ unique setting. 

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  • Celebrating 100 years of lives reclaimed at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA.

    What Does the Riggs Centennial Mean to Me? - Part 2

    May 29, 2019

    Austen Riggs held a blog competition among staff members where we asked them to answer the question: “What does the Riggs Centennial Mean to Me?” Our second blog entry comes from IRB Administrator Kim Hunter-Schaedle, PhD.

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  • Celebrating 100 years of lives reclaimed at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA.

    What Does the Riggs Centennial Mean to Me? - Part 1

    May 22, 2019

    Austen Riggs held a blog competition among staff members where we asked them to answer the question: “What does the Riggs Centennial Mean to Me?” Our first blog entry comes from Staff Nurse Amy Hardt, RN, MPH, MAA.

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