Kate Wheeler PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN, will use her presentation to  apply resilience and relationship as a framework for practice. Stages of recovery will be discussed for a patient with complex trauma.

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Relationship & Resilience: A Framework for Practice

 Free Virtual Grand Rounds with Kate Wheeler PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN, who will apply resilience and relationship as a framework for practice.

Groups of 5 or more attendees interested in being invoiced for registration fees, please email Tami Buhrts at 

, gives the afternoon keynote address "The Role of Psychic Pain in Suicide Risk and Recovery" at the 2022 Suicide Prevention Conference sponsored by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. 

Description of keynote address from the conference website: "Suicidal thinking and behavior involve complex interactions between affective experiences, cognitive processes, and other biopsychosocial vulnerabilities. The mental states that precede suicidal behavior - while often embedded in longstanding developmental and characterological contexts - are believed to contain at their core a sense of anguish that is perceived as both unbearable and unending, often referred to as “psychic pain”. Experiences of psychic pain are often difficult for suicidal individuals to clearly articulate, and this coupled with the many differing theoretical conceptualizations of psychic pain in the literature on suicide have made the assessment and treatment of psychic pain challenging for both clinicians and researchers. In this presentation, different approaches to understanding psychic pain will be described, and empirical evidence supporting its importance in in understanding and addressing vulnerability to suicidal thoughts and actions will be reviewed. Attendees will be oriented to a range of approaches to evaluating psychic pain in the context of treatment and integrating considerations of psychic pain into clinical intervention. Finally, the role of protective factors (such as resilience, sense of meaning, and post traumatic growth) in promoting recovery from persistent states of psychic pain will be discussed. This presentation will support attendees’ development of new skills related to dynamic interviewing, risk assessment, to intervention approaches with chronically suicidal patients."

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The Role of Psychic Pain in Suicide Risk and Recovery

General Admission: $75 (through 8/15/22, then $125)

Student/Resident/Fellow: $25 (through 8/15/22, then $35)

Katie C. Lewis, PhD, gives the afternoon keynote address at the 2022 Suicide Prevention Conference sponsored by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. 

Sexuality studies and queer theory have long drawn from psychoanalysis in centralizing sexuality within human experience. Psychoanalysis, for its, part, has benefitted from the work of sexuality studies, beginning with Freud’s interest in the work of Krafft-Ebing and the sexologists. This talk explores this important relationship as well as its tensions which continue today and derive from certain deplorable post-Freudian era practices and conceptualisations by a psychoanalytic field worried about non-conformity and its scandalous ideas. Jacques Lacan’s formulation of the sexual "non-rapport" queers the field of desire and is useful in approaching sexuality as embodying a fundamental “heteros” or otherness that forms of identity, including gender, attempt to bridge. In psychoanalytic terms, desire's “disquieting disregard for gender and for persons” (Dean 2000) supports queer theory’s suspicion of identity categories and rejection of systems of normativity (Giffney, 2017). This talk proposes that psychoanalysis is challenged, strengthened, and emboldened by cross-disciplinary engagement

Encounters between Psychoanalysis and Queer Theory

Free Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture with Eve Watson, PhD.

, joins a roundtable discussion at the Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere: Politics of Identity virtual conference. The roundtable discussion will be held on September 25 from 10:10-11:50 a.m. (Eastern) and is titled: "Protean Man and Neoliberal Society." Ken Fuchsman chairs the discussion which also features Lynn Layton, Samir Gandesha, Rye Holmboe, Michael Rustin. 

This two-day online conference is organised by David Morgan and Kurt Jacobsen of Free Associations Journal in partnership with the Freud Museum.

Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere: Politics of Identity

Riggs clinician Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, presents at a roundtable discussion at this virtual conference from David Morgan and Kurt Jacobsen of Free Associations Journal in partnership with the Freud Museum.

If you or someone you know is a post-residency psychiatrist or postdoctoral psychologist, please join us for a virtual open house to learn more about our unique and exceptional 

Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program and Fellowship in Hospital-Based Psychotherapy

During this virtual event, you will have an opportunity to:

Experience an interdisciplinary Case Presentation

Hear from and ask questions to Director of Psychiatric Education 

If you have any questions, please email education@austenriggs.net

You may also learn more about the program on our Fellowship page: 

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Everything You Wanted to Know (And More!) About the Austen Riggs Fellowship for Psychiatrists and Psychologists – A Virtual Open House

If you or someone you know is a post-residency psychiatrist or postdoctoral psychologist, please join us for a virtual open house to learn more about our unique and exceptional Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program and Fellowship in Hospital-Based Psychotherapy. 

12:30 - 4:30 p.m. Friday / 9:30 a.m. - 4:20 p.m. Saturday (Eastern)

$40 with 7.5 CE/CME credits; FREE without CE/CME credit

How does moral injury occur and what steps can we take to understand and repair the damage it does to individuals and institutions?

Hear from experienced scholars and clinicians at this year’s Erikson Institute Fall Conference as we examine moral injury and repair related to:

Moral injury happens at the intersection of the individual, the institution, and society. Often it leaves a lasting wound to the psyche and the soul that is suffused with the experience of perpetration and betrayal.

First associated with war and military practices, we now know moral injury occurs in other social catastrophes such as the pandemic, the lasting destructive damage of the institution of slavery in the United States, and in various institutional contexts including healthcare, governance, and education.

The growing prevalence of moral injury calls for changes at the level of the community that require cultivating moral practices in leadership and policy.

Participants can expect to come away from this conference with a better understanding of moral injury in multiple contexts and practical actions they can take to aid in efforts at repair.

2022 Virtual Fall Conference - Moral Injury: Individual and Collective Trauma, and Its Repair

Register now for our annual Fall Conference - October 14-15, 2022. This year's topic is 

Moral Injury: Individual and Collective Trauma, and Its Repair. 

Leading from Experience: Developing the Consultative Stance

The Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems

 is pleased to announce the next in its series of weekend training workshops on the consultative stance.

The workshop will be offered IN PERSON at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA, as we pursue the primary task of using the consultative stance to understand and provide leadership in work groups.


Times are approximate and may be modified slightly.

: Donna Elmendorf, Jerry Fromm, Dannie Kennedy

We anticipate opening registration in early August

For questions, or to be placed on an email update list, please contact Lori at

Leading From Experience

The Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems is pleased to announce the next in its series of weekend training workshops on the consultative stance to happen IN PERSON at Austen Riggs.

This presentation considers the nature of psychoanalytic treatment for children where there is severe developmental delay in the context of intergenerational trauma. From a variety of theoretical positions, the author discusses a case of a young child for whom psychoanalytic treatment was not originally intended but who, for institutional reasons concerned with the training needs of a trainee, was seen in three times per week psychoanalytic child psychotherapy for a number of years. The paper examines the notion of the child analyst as a new developmental object to such a child, locating its origin within the Anna Freudian tradition but making links both to Winnicottian concepts and also post Bionian elaboration of the nature of the analyst’s mental functioning in the analytic setting.

The Child Analyst as a ‘New Developmental Object’ to a Developmentally Delayed Young Child

Free Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture with Angela Joyce.

This talk will explore the social and psychic lives of Asian American students and patients that David L. Eng, PhD, and his co-author (Shinhee Han) have encountered over the course of twenty years in the classroom and the clinic. It is based on their recently published book, 

Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans

Free Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture with David L. Eng, PhD.

Jonathan Sklar, LRCP, MRCS, MBBS, FRCPsych, TQAP 

The tradition of Apocalyptic prophecy developed in the Middle Ages, first by Jewish and later Christians ‘consoles, fortified and asserted themselves when confronted by the threat.' Messianism and debates about the Antichrist were further developed during the Crusades. Later the good-bad dichotomy was enacted by the thousands of penitents masochistically scourging themselves across Europe as well as the Torquemadian sadistic persecutions. Yet all the major European powers used such cruel displays as it was socially, politically, and economically expedient to those in power. Unconscious manifestations of human cruelties find expressions in society and very often such matters are reframed, covered over, and even believed to be ideal states of humanity–such as ‘religious goodness.'

Apocalyptic Times and the Missing Debate

Free Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture with Jonathan Sklar.

This lecture takes up the question of what a social psychoanalysis might look like in the clinic, in our psychoanalytic institutions, and in our society. Drawing on some earlier psychoanalysts’ concepts that have connected the social world and the psychic world, I introduce the concept of normative unconscious processes, which addresses the ways that racism, heterosexism, classism, and other social inequalities are unconsciously replicated in the clinic. The talk then explores how therapists can resist unconsciously replicating such cultural inequalities. We will then look outside the clinic at how cultural inequalities manifest in the wider circles of contemporary institutional and sociocultural life. Here, too, we will explore how we, as citizens and therapists, both unconsciously replicate and can resist replicating harmful, unequal relations. We will think together about how to address the places in our different subjective and communal worlds where harm has been done, and engage together on how to make repair.

Social Psychoanalysis, Normative Unconscious Processes, and an Ethic of Repair

Free Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture with Lynne Layton, PhD.

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Race and Racism in Psychoanalytic Thought: Shaking Our Analytic Frame

Beverly J. Stoute, MD, FABP, DFAPA, DFAACAP gives the 2023 Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture. This is a free virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture.

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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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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