The Riggs Difference: Where Understanding Leads to Recovery
The Austen Riggs Center provides clinicians, researchers, scholars, and members of the general public with free access to a large array of articles, videos, courses and other resources related to mental health care.
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Educational Events
Dagmar Herzog, PhD, resituates the hundredthousandfold Nazi coercive “eugenic” sterilizations and “euthanasia” murders of people with cognitive impairments and psychiatric diagnoses in a longer history of lethal malice toward the vulnerable.
Educational Events
Three Freudian and Lacan conceptualizations help illuminate a clinical vignette presented by Dr. Hook.
Conferences
Donna Elmendorf, PhD, serves as associate director and Megan Kolano, PsyD, ABPP, serves as a consultant at this residential group relations conference.
Educational Events
Katie Lewis, PhD, presents a virtual grand rounds for the Jacobs School of Medicine at the University at Buffalo
Conferences
Daniel Knauss, PsyD, ABPP; and Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP, present at the 2026 American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) National Meeting in San Francisco, CA, from January 27-February 1.
Educational Events
This presentation uses a decolonial lens to integrate intrapsychic, interpersonal, and sociocultural frameworks in psychoanalytic case formulation. It helps clinicians remain socioculturally responsive while distinguishing trauma that requires accompaniment from defensive processes that require confrontation.
Special Events
Join us virtually to learn more about our Online IOP for emerging adults located in MA & VT.
Educational Events
This talk will review the concept of psychic pain within the broader landscape of suicidology, psychoanalysis, and clinical science and highlight emerging findings that illuminate its structure, correlates, and role in the unfolding of suicidal crises.
Educational Events
Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD, talks about clinicians working with overwhelm as both a challenge and an art form: it requires therapists, to make themselves permeable to patients in ways that make therapists exquisitely vulnerable.
Special Events
Ed Shapiro, MD, joins filmmaker Michele Beck for a virtual screening her film Learning to Speak.
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Educational Events
Dagmar Herzog, PhD, resituates the hundredthousandfold Nazi coercive “eugenic” sterilizations and “euthanasia” murders of people with cognitive impairments and psychiatric diagnoses in a longer history of lethal malice toward the vulnerable.
Educational Events
Three Freudian and Lacan conceptualizations help illuminate a clinical vignette presented by Dr. Hook.
Conferences
Donna Elmendorf, PhD, serves as associate director and Megan Kolano, PsyD, ABPP, serves as a consultant at this residential group relations conference.
Educational Events
Katie Lewis, PhD, presents a virtual grand rounds for the Jacobs School of Medicine at the University at Buffalo
Conferences
Daniel Knauss, PsyD, ABPP; and Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP, present at the 2026 American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) National Meeting in San Francisco, CA, from January 27-February 1.
Educational Events
This presentation uses a decolonial lens to integrate intrapsychic, interpersonal, and sociocultural frameworks in psychoanalytic case formulation. It helps clinicians remain socioculturally responsive while distinguishing trauma that requires accompaniment from defensive processes that require confrontation.
Special Events
Join us virtually to learn more about our Online IOP for emerging adults located in MA & VT.
Educational Events
This talk will review the concept of psychic pain within the broader landscape of suicidology, psychoanalysis, and clinical science and highlight emerging findings that illuminate its structure, correlates, and role in the unfolding of suicidal crises.
Educational Events
Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD, talks about clinicians working with overwhelm as both a challenge and an art form: it requires therapists, to make themselves permeable to patients in ways that make therapists exquisitely vulnerable.
Special Events
Ed Shapiro, MD, joins filmmaker Michele Beck for a virtual screening her film Learning to Speak.
Resource
Educational Events
Dagmar Herzog, PhD, resituates the hundredthousandfold Nazi coercive “eugenic” sterilizations and “euthanasia” murders of people with cognitive impairments and psychiatric diagnoses in a longer history of lethal malice toward the vulnerable.
Educational Events
Three Freudian and Lacan conceptualizations help illuminate a clinical vignette presented by Dr. Hook.
Conferences
Donna Elmendorf, PhD, serves as associate director and Megan Kolano, PsyD, ABPP, serves as a consultant at this residential group relations conference.
Educational Events
Katie Lewis, PhD, presents a virtual grand rounds for the Jacobs School of Medicine at the University at Buffalo
Conferences
Daniel Knauss, PsyD, ABPP; and Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP, present at the 2026 American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) National Meeting in San Francisco, CA, from January 27-February 1.
Educational Events
This presentation uses a decolonial lens to integrate intrapsychic, interpersonal, and sociocultural frameworks in psychoanalytic case formulation. It helps clinicians remain socioculturally responsive while distinguishing trauma that requires accompaniment from defensive processes that require confrontation.
Special Events
Join us virtually to learn more about our Online IOP for emerging adults located in MA & VT.
Educational Events
This talk will review the concept of psychic pain within the broader landscape of suicidology, psychoanalysis, and clinical science and highlight emerging findings that illuminate its structure, correlates, and role in the unfolding of suicidal crises.
Educational Events
Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD, talks about clinicians working with overwhelm as both a challenge and an art form: it requires therapists, to make themselves permeable to patients in ways that make therapists exquisitely vulnerable.
Special Events
Ed Shapiro, MD, joins filmmaker Michele Beck for a virtual screening her film Learning to Speak.