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In Evidence: Measurement-based Care Can Guide Clinical Practice in Psychoanalysis
October 6, 2023
Accreditation Manager Steven Ackerman, PhD, and Director of Research Katie Lewis, PhD, talk about measurement-based care in the treatment of patients in a psychoanalytic residential treatment setting.
Educational Events
Freud Lacan Institute International Research Symposium
October 4, 2025
Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP, and former Erikson Scholar Eve Watson, PhD, present at this annual research symposium in Dublin, Ireland.
Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP, and former Erikson Scholar Eve Watson, PhD, present at this annual research symposium in Dublin, Ireland.
Special Events
Berkshire County's Annual Suicide Prevention Conference 2025
October 7, 2025
Join community members for an annual conference focused on increasing awareness, reducing stigma, promoting connection, and accessing support.
Join community members for an annual conference focused on increasing awareness, reducing stigma, promoting connection, and accessing support.
Special Events
Riggs IOP Presents at the New England/NY College Health Association Annual Meeting
October 15, 2025
The Austen Riggs Center Online Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), in partnership with the Vermont Consultation and Psychiatry Access Program (VTCPAP), will share insights and examples of how systems that collaborate effectively can provide students and young adults with timely and appropriate care.
The Austen Riggs Center Online Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), in partnership with the Vermont Consultation and Psychiatry Access Program (VTCPAP), will share insights and examples of how systems that collaborate effectively can provide students and young adults with timely and appropriate care.
Conferences
Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) 2025 Annual Conference
October 24, 2025
Vivian Chan, DO, MS, and Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, present at the APCS Annual Conference, The Psychoanalytic Subject in a Fractured World: Culture, Power, and the Politics of Existence.
Vivian Chan, DO, MS, and Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, present at the APCS Annual Conference, The Psychoanalytic Subject in a Fractured World: Culture, Power, and the Politics of Existence.
Educational Events
The AI Pharmakon in Psychoanalytic Care: Ambivalence, Augmentation, and Psychoanalytic Futures
October 24, 2025
Todd Essig, PhD, explores the clinical state of play amid the rapidly accelerating developments with AI, with a focus on how psychoanalytic sensibilities can help us think, feel, and act in response.
Todd Essig, PhD, explores the clinical state of play amid the rapidly accelerating developments with AI, with a focus on how psychoanalytic sensibilities can help us think, feel, and act in response.
Educational Events
The Pseudo-Self
November 14, 2025
Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP, focuses on the “pseudo-self” – a particular variation of dissociative organization in which normality and functionality camouflage the absence of emotional authenticity.
Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP, focuses on the “pseudo-self” – a particular variation of dissociative organization in which normality and functionality camouflage the absence of emotional authenticity.
Educational Events
Working with Infertility Patients through a Psychoanalytic Lens
November 21, 2025
Golzar Naghshineh, MS, LP, CGP, and Nancy Kaufman, LCSW, LP, explore (among other things) new theories on how infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and loss impact the psyche of this specific population.
Golzar Naghshineh, MS, LP, CGP, and Nancy Kaufman, LCSW, LP, explore (among other things) new theories on how infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and loss impact the psyche of this specific population.
Educational Events
Sun, Soil and Rain: Research on Patient Growth in Psychotherapy
December 5, 2025
Brin Grenyer, PhD, overviews 30 years of studies from his and other research groups that includes studies of transference, attachment, mastery of self-understanding and self-control, and emotional and cognitive change.
Brin Grenyer, PhD, overviews 30 years of studies from his and other research groups that includes studies of transference, attachment, mastery of self-understanding and self-control, and emotional and cognitive change.
Educational Events
Therapeutic Assessment: Using Psychological Testing as Brief Therapy
December 19, 2025
Stephen E. Finn, PhD, discusses Therapeutic Assessment, a brief intervention during which psychological testing is used collaboratively with clients to help them develop new self-narratives that are more coherent, accurate, useful, and compassionate.
Stephen E. Finn, PhD, discusses Therapeutic Assessment, a brief intervention during which psychological testing is used collaboratively with clients to help them develop new self-narratives that are more coherent, accurate, useful, and compassionate.
Educational Events
The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century
January 9, 2026
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.
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.
Resource
In Evidence: Measurement-based Care Can Guide Clinical Practice in Psychoanalysis
October 6, 2023
Accreditation Manager Steven Ackerman, PhD, and Director of Research Katie Lewis, PhD, talk about measurement-based care in the treatment of patients in a psychoanalytic residential treatment setting.
Educational Events
Freud Lacan Institute International Research Symposium
October 4, 2025
Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP, and former Erikson Scholar Eve Watson, PhD, present at this annual research symposium in Dublin, Ireland.
Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP, and former Erikson Scholar Eve Watson, PhD, present at this annual research symposium in Dublin, Ireland.
Special Events
Berkshire County's Annual Suicide Prevention Conference 2025
October 7, 2025
Join community members for an annual conference focused on increasing awareness, reducing stigma, promoting connection, and accessing support.
Join community members for an annual conference focused on increasing awareness, reducing stigma, promoting connection, and accessing support.
Special Events
Riggs IOP Presents at the New England/NY College Health Association Annual Meeting
October 15, 2025
The Austen Riggs Center Online Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), in partnership with the Vermont Consultation and Psychiatry Access Program (VTCPAP), will share insights and examples of how systems that collaborate effectively can provide students and young adults with timely and appropriate care.
The Austen Riggs Center Online Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), in partnership with the Vermont Consultation and Psychiatry Access Program (VTCPAP), will share insights and examples of how systems that collaborate effectively can provide students and young adults with timely and appropriate care.
Conferences
Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) 2025 Annual Conference
October 24, 2025
Vivian Chan, DO, MS, and Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, present at the APCS Annual Conference, The Psychoanalytic Subject in a Fractured World: Culture, Power, and the Politics of Existence.
Vivian Chan, DO, MS, and Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, present at the APCS Annual Conference, The Psychoanalytic Subject in a Fractured World: Culture, Power, and the Politics of Existence.
Educational Events
The AI Pharmakon in Psychoanalytic Care: Ambivalence, Augmentation, and Psychoanalytic Futures
October 24, 2025
Todd Essig, PhD, explores the clinical state of play amid the rapidly accelerating developments with AI, with a focus on how psychoanalytic sensibilities can help us think, feel, and act in response.
Todd Essig, PhD, explores the clinical state of play amid the rapidly accelerating developments with AI, with a focus on how psychoanalytic sensibilities can help us think, feel, and act in response.
Educational Events
The Pseudo-Self
November 14, 2025
Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP, focuses on the “pseudo-self” – a particular variation of dissociative organization in which normality and functionality camouflage the absence of emotional authenticity.
Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP, focuses on the “pseudo-self” – a particular variation of dissociative organization in which normality and functionality camouflage the absence of emotional authenticity.
Educational Events
Working with Infertility Patients through a Psychoanalytic Lens
November 21, 2025
Golzar Naghshineh, MS, LP, CGP, and Nancy Kaufman, LCSW, LP, explore (among other things) new theories on how infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and loss impact the psyche of this specific population.
Golzar Naghshineh, MS, LP, CGP, and Nancy Kaufman, LCSW, LP, explore (among other things) new theories on how infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and loss impact the psyche of this specific population.
Educational Events
Sun, Soil and Rain: Research on Patient Growth in Psychotherapy
December 5, 2025
Brin Grenyer, PhD, overviews 30 years of studies from his and other research groups that includes studies of transference, attachment, mastery of self-understanding and self-control, and emotional and cognitive change.
Brin Grenyer, PhD, overviews 30 years of studies from his and other research groups that includes studies of transference, attachment, mastery of self-understanding and self-control, and emotional and cognitive change.
Educational Events
Therapeutic Assessment: Using Psychological Testing as Brief Therapy
December 19, 2025
Stephen E. Finn, PhD, discusses Therapeutic Assessment, a brief intervention during which psychological testing is used collaboratively with clients to help them develop new self-narratives that are more coherent, accurate, useful, and compassionate.
Stephen E. Finn, PhD, discusses Therapeutic Assessment, a brief intervention during which psychological testing is used collaboratively with clients to help them develop new self-narratives that are more coherent, accurate, useful, and compassionate.
Educational Events
The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century
January 9, 2026
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.
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.
Resource
In Evidence: Measurement-based Care Can Guide Clinical Practice in Psychoanalysis
October 6, 2023
Accreditation Manager Steven Ackerman, PhD, and Director of Research Katie Lewis, PhD, talk about measurement-based care in the treatment of patients in a psychoanalytic residential treatment setting.
Educational Events
Freud Lacan Institute International Research Symposium
October 4, 2025
Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP, and former Erikson Scholar Eve Watson, PhD, present at this annual research symposium in Dublin, Ireland.
Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP, and former Erikson Scholar Eve Watson, PhD, present at this annual research symposium in Dublin, Ireland.
Special Events
Berkshire County's Annual Suicide Prevention Conference 2025
October 7, 2025
Join community members for an annual conference focused on increasing awareness, reducing stigma, promoting connection, and accessing support.
Join community members for an annual conference focused on increasing awareness, reducing stigma, promoting connection, and accessing support.
Special Events
Riggs IOP Presents at the New England/NY College Health Association Annual Meeting
October 15, 2025
The Austen Riggs Center Online Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), in partnership with the Vermont Consultation and Psychiatry Access Program (VTCPAP), will share insights and examples of how systems that collaborate effectively can provide students and young adults with timely and appropriate care.
The Austen Riggs Center Online Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), in partnership with the Vermont Consultation and Psychiatry Access Program (VTCPAP), will share insights and examples of how systems that collaborate effectively can provide students and young adults with timely and appropriate care.
Conferences
Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) 2025 Annual Conference
October 24, 2025
Vivian Chan, DO, MS, and Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, present at the APCS Annual Conference, The Psychoanalytic Subject in a Fractured World: Culture, Power, and the Politics of Existence.
Vivian Chan, DO, MS, and Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, present at the APCS Annual Conference, The Psychoanalytic Subject in a Fractured World: Culture, Power, and the Politics of Existence.
Educational Events
The AI Pharmakon in Psychoanalytic Care: Ambivalence, Augmentation, and Psychoanalytic Futures
October 24, 2025
Todd Essig, PhD, explores the clinical state of play amid the rapidly accelerating developments with AI, with a focus on how psychoanalytic sensibilities can help us think, feel, and act in response.
Todd Essig, PhD, explores the clinical state of play amid the rapidly accelerating developments with AI, with a focus on how psychoanalytic sensibilities can help us think, feel, and act in response.
Educational Events
The Pseudo-Self
November 14, 2025
Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP, focuses on the “pseudo-self” – a particular variation of dissociative organization in which normality and functionality camouflage the absence of emotional authenticity.
Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP, focuses on the “pseudo-self” – a particular variation of dissociative organization in which normality and functionality camouflage the absence of emotional authenticity.
Educational Events
Working with Infertility Patients through a Psychoanalytic Lens
November 21, 2025
Golzar Naghshineh, MS, LP, CGP, and Nancy Kaufman, LCSW, LP, explore (among other things) new theories on how infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and loss impact the psyche of this specific population.
Golzar Naghshineh, MS, LP, CGP, and Nancy Kaufman, LCSW, LP, explore (among other things) new theories on how infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and loss impact the psyche of this specific population.
Educational Events
Sun, Soil and Rain: Research on Patient Growth in Psychotherapy
December 5, 2025
Brin Grenyer, PhD, overviews 30 years of studies from his and other research groups that includes studies of transference, attachment, mastery of self-understanding and self-control, and emotional and cognitive change.
Brin Grenyer, PhD, overviews 30 years of studies from his and other research groups that includes studies of transference, attachment, mastery of self-understanding and self-control, and emotional and cognitive change.
Educational Events
Therapeutic Assessment: Using Psychological Testing as Brief Therapy
December 19, 2025
Stephen E. Finn, PhD, discusses Therapeutic Assessment, a brief intervention during which psychological testing is used collaboratively with clients to help them develop new self-narratives that are more coherent, accurate, useful, and compassionate.
Stephen E. Finn, PhD, discusses Therapeutic Assessment, a brief intervention during which psychological testing is used collaboratively with clients to help them develop new self-narratives that are more coherent, accurate, useful, and compassionate.
Educational Events
The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century
January 9, 2026
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.
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.