Where Patients Take Charge of Their Lives When Other Treatments Haven't Worked

Nestled in the Berkshires, the Austen Riggs Center is unlike most mental health treatment centers. Our patients take charge of their lives when other psychiatric treatments have not worked. Our psychoanalytic approach recognizes that relationships are a central part of treatment, symptoms and struggles have meaning worth understanding, and patients have authority in their lives and in their treatment. At the Austen Riggs Center, patients report statistically significant, clinically meaningful improvements in depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive symptoms, and overall symptom severity.

(Note: No current patients or family members appear in this video. To protect privacy rights, these roles are portrayed by actors.)