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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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  • 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 staff psychiatrist 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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  • Riggs Clinicians to Present at 2019 APA Annual Meeting

    Riggs Clinicians to Present at 2019 APA Annual Meeting

    May 8, 2019

    May 18-22, Riggs clinicians will be presenting in San Francisco, CA, at the 2019 Annual Meetings of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (AAPDPP), and PsychSIGN.

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  • Remembering Richard Q. Ford, PhD

    April 29, 2019

    Richard Q. Ford, who ran the psychological testing service at Austen Riggs for over 20 years, died peacefully on April 25. During the past several months, he faced death calmly with his family at his side, exchanging notes and letters with many former students, patients, colleagues, and friends who have known and loved him during his long life. 

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  • Austen Riggs Center Greenhouse Instructor Sandy Dawson talks about the role of gardening and the greenhouse as part of the Activities Program at Riggs.

    Dig in!

    April 10, 2019

    Those beautiful flowers on the tables, the well-tended plants in the Inn, the delicious vegetables prepared in the kitchen—Austen Riggs has its own “garden-to-table” initiative, courtesy of patients who tend plants in our greenhouse and garden as students of Greenhouse Instructor Sandy Dawson.

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  • 2018 Top Riggs Blogs – Part 1

    December 19, 2018

    As we approach the end of 2018, we thought we’d look back over some of our more popular blogs and blog series from this year. 

    Below are five of the most popular blogs from January to June of this year: 

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