In this lecture Neil Altman, PhD, will look at race and the critical role it plays in society and in clinical practice. Much of the effort going into racial consciousness-raising for people who identify as white rests on the notion of unearned “white privilege”.  Altman looks deeply into this idea, along with associated concepts of guilt, power, and identity. He suggests that there are embedded assumptions therein that perpetuate the very racially prejudicial ways of thinking that are purportedly being dismantled.

Educational Events

White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

 Free Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture with Neil Altman, PhD, who will look at race and the critical role it plays in society and in clinical practice.

In this lecture, Scott Stevens, PhD, will discuss his new chapter “The Language of Belief in Religious Conversion in Eighteenth-Century Iroquoia,” from the book 

Feeling Godly: Religious Affectations and Christian Contact in Early North America

 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021). The chapter discusses the Iroquoian language and the relationship between language and missionary conversion in New England. In particular,  Stevens will look at Jonathan Edwards in Stockbridge (the home of the Austen Riggs Center) and the Stockbridge-Munsee who were present for his preaching and conversion efforts.

The Language of Belief in Religious Conversion in Eighteenth-Century Iroquoia

Free Virtual Psychoanalysis and the Humanities Lecture with Scott Stevens, PhD, who will discuss his new chapter from the book 

David Celani, PhD, will present an overview of Fairbairn's model with an emphasis on three aspects of his model. First, he will describe Fairbairn's sensitive and nuanced understanding of the emotional vulnerability of children to the rejection of their needs by his/her caregiver. The child's dependency is so intense that any lived experiences of indifference or rejection are intolerable for his/ her sense of security, and are dissociated and held in the unconscious.

Working with Fairbairn's Structural Model in the Clinical Interview

 Free Virtual Grand Rounds with David Celani, PhD, who will present an overview of Fairbairn's model with an emphasis on three aspects of his model.

, a new documentary by director and producer Molly Castelloe about the work of Professor Vamik Volkan, will be made available to event registrants, through a screening link, to view February 12-17, followed by this virtual Q&A on 

(Eastern) with panelists Vamik D. Volkan, MD; M. Gerard Fromm, PhD, ABPP; and Edward R. Shapiro, MD.

Join us on February 17 for a discussion of large-group psychology in the context of the Capitol insurrection, the removal of confederate monuments, and the divisions we face in American politics today. Drawing upon relevant ideas from the work of Professor Vamik Volkan, our panel and audience will discuss large-group dynamics, national identity, collective memory, the role of chosen trauma, and difficulties in shared mourning.

Our aim is to acquire a deeper understanding of societal dynamics around the construction of social memory and its implications for large-group psychology and conflict resolution.

Large-Group Identity, Fallen Idols & the Capitol Siege

Join us for a discussion with panelists Vamik D. Volkan, MD; M. Gerard Fromm, PhD, ABPP; and Edward R. Shapiro, MD, of large-group psychology in the context of the divisions we face in American politics today.

In this talk, Mitchell Wilson, MD, considers the concept and economic fact of property in relation to the training and practice of psychoanalysts. The principle of ownership, and the legal system that has been built up around it ("private property") has broad influences, from the physical places in which we practice to the words we utter in conversation with patients. Through the lens of property, issues of race and class as they relate to psychoanalytic work can be more easily discerned. And property is one way to trace important changes in the history of analytic clinical theory: from an emphasis on things (dreams, fantasies, wishes) to space (transitional, gaps and lacks, the field). 

Property and Psychoanalysis

 Free Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture with Mitchell Wilson, MD, who considers the concept and economic fact of property in relation to the training and practice of psychoanalysts.

David Levitt, PhD, will speak about interweaving principles and approaches from a somatically based trauma therapy, Somatic Experiencing (SE), into psychoanalytic treatment. He focuses on patients with severe early traumas who are chronically vulnerable to states of catastrophic dissociative dissolution. When dissociation takes this form, not merely compartmentalization, but "dis-mentalization," the mind and body are bombarded by overwhelming and disorganizing fragments of disturbing physical sensations, calamitous affects, disconnected and malevolent flashback echoes and images, and autonomic flooding and freezing. It is a terrible dilemma in treatment when patients are so swept up in the flood and/or lost in the fog, that there is no self who is present enough to hear, take in, and participate in the desperately needed holding and containment that we offer. 

Levit will illustrate somatically based interventions that help contend with such catastrophic dissociative states. He will also show how these somatic interventions, borrowed from non-psychoanalytic trauma treatments, can enfold into our psychoanalytic modes of therapeutic process and therapeutic action.

Psychoanalytic Holding for Trauma and Catastrophic Dissociation Contending with the Flood and the Fog

 Free Virtual Grand Rounds with David Levitt, PhD, who will speak about interweaving principles and approaches from a somatically based trauma therapy, Somatic Experiencing (SE), into psychoanalytic treatment. 

for a current list of live and on-demand CE/CME courses and events.

Empirical Evidence Base for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

 Free Virtual Grand Rounds with Jonathan Shedler, PhD. More information coming soon. 

The Social Industry in the Age of Distributed Fascism

 Free Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture with Richard Seymour.  More information coming soon. 

YASMIN ROBERTS MEMORIAL LECTURE - Journeying Towards Racial Equity in North American Psychoanalysis: Insights from Work in Progress

 Free Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture with Dorothy Evans Holmes, PhD, ABPP, FABP. More information coming soon. 

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Several Austen Riggs Center clinicians will be presenting at the American Psychiatric Association 2022 Annual Meeting. See below for dates and times. For additional information about the meeting, visit the 

Psychodynamic Therapy With Self-Destructive Borderline Patients: An Alliance Based Intervention for Suicide


Date: Saturday, May 21, 2022
Time: 8:00-9:30 a.m.

Read about Riggs' approach to treating Borderline Personality Disorder

Assessing Psychic Pain and Proximal States of Mind Associated with Suicidal Thinking and Behavior


Date: Monday, May 23
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Read about Riggs' approach to treating those struggling with suicide and suicidal ideation

Who Is the Psychiatrist of the Future? Psychotherapeutic Expertise in Psychiatric Consultation to Integrated Care

 (chair); Madeleine Elise Lansky, MD; Sherry Katz-Bearnot, MD; Elizabeth A Greene, MD
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Time: 8:00-9:30 a.m.

Psychopharmacology Master Class: The Art of Psychopharmacology

 (chair); Carl Salzman, MD
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Time: 1:30-3:00 p.m.

Read about Riggs' unique approach, Psychodynamic Psychopharamacology 

Theory and Application of Psychodynamics of Psychopharmacology Within the 30 Minute “Med-Check” for Residents and Early Career Psychiatrists

 (chair); Ali Ahsan Ali, MD; Manal Farrukh Khan, MD; Ian King, MD
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Time: 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Conferences

Riggs Clinicians Presenting at 2022 APA Annual Meeting

Several Austen Riggs Center clinicians will be presenting at the American Psychiatric Association 2022 Annual Meeting.

Explore a wide range of psychotherapy conferences, lectures, workshops, and educational events with Riggs clinicians, as well as online CE/CME courses. 

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For answers to any questions about events, conferences, or CME courses, please feel free to contact us.

In addition to wide ranges of published articles, interviews, and other materials featuring the work of Riggs clinicians, our Resource Center houses video excerpts and select full presentations from past academic conferences and educational events.

An important part of the Erikson Institute's educational mission is providing online continuing education and continuing medical education courses with an emphasis on psychodynamic psychotherapy. Certificates and CE/CME credits are availabile for those with an MD, PhD, or PsyD, and for social workers.

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