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The Riggs Blog is a mix of news about clinical work, research and educational activities from the Austen Riggs Center, as well as a source for information beyond our walls that we find interesting and thought-provoking. Senior clinical experts, researchers, and editors review all clinical content on this blog before it is published.

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CALL FOR ENTRIES: Submissions Now Being Accepted for $3,000 Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media

February 24, 2021

The Austen Riggs Center announces a call for entries for its 2021 Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media.

Importance of Relationships
Psychiatrist and Photographer Sebastian Zimmermann captures the aesthetic visual experience of clinical practice
December 7, 2012
Dr. Sebastian Zimmermann, a New York based psychiatrist and photographer, to include Riggs therapists in a collection of photographic portraits that capture an aesthetic, visual experience of clinical practice.
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A systems approach is needed to care for complex problems facing returning veterans
December 4, 2012
This country is only now beginning to fathom the magnitude of issues that surround the multidimensional nature of combat and operational stress exposure, according to Dr. Stephen Xenakis, who closed this year’s Erikson Institute Fall Conference on Trauma and Moral Injury.

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Finding Meaning in Behavior
Dr. Mintz points to more evidence that psychological factors shape response to meds
December 4, 2012
In the September 11, 2012 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have found that placebo/nocebo effects occur at the unconscious level, challenging the exclusive role of awareness and conscious cognitions in placebo responses.
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Mar. 12, 2021 at 12:45 PM

"The Law Shall Touch You": Psychological Profiling, Race, and Marlowe's The Jew of Malta  
Virtual  Grand Rounds  with  Lisa Barksdale-Shaw, JD, PhD
Mar. 18, 2021 at 5:00 PM

Empathy and Understanding: In History, Psychotherapy, and Our Contemporary World
In this webinar, historian Tom A. Kohut, PhD, and his colleagues discuss his most recent book, Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past.
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Apr. 2, 2021 at 12:45 PM

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CALL FOR ENTRIES: Submissions Now Being Accepted for $3,000 Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media

Psychiatrist and Photographer Sebastian Zimmermann captures the aesthetic visual experience of clinical practice

A systems approach is needed to care for complex problems facing returning veterans

Dr. Mintz points to more evidence that psychological factors shape response to meds

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"The Law Shall Touch You": Psychological Profiling, Race, and Marlowe's The Jew of Malta

Empathy and Understanding: In History, Psychotherapy, and Our Contemporary World

Recovering a Self in Psychosis

Teletherapy In/Of Crisis: COVID-19 One Year On

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