Austen Riggs Center

Recently, the Austen Riggs Center Board of Trustees and staff undertook a comprehensive strategic planning process that prioritized a number of initiatives designed to expand our role and positively impact the serious mental health issues we face as a society. These include: biopsychosocial advocacy, human development, neural mediators of psychotherapeutic change, psychodynamic psychopharmacology, and suicide research and education.

Read more about each of these strategic initiatives below:
 

• Strategic Initiatives: Biopsychosocial Advocacy Overview

• Riggs Strategic Initiative Video Blog: Biopsychosocial Advocacy

• Strategic Initiatives: Human Development Overview

• Strategic Initiatives: Human Development – Discovering Your Baby

• Austen Riggs Center Receives Major Grant to Support Human Development Strategic Initiative

• Community Gathers in Support of Parent-Infant Connection

• Strategic Initiatives: Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology Overview

• Strategic Initiatives: Suicide Research and Education Overview

• Understanding Self-Destructive Impulses in Daily Life

• Addressing Suicide on the Local, State, and National Level

• Austen Riggs Research Psychologist Katie Lewis, PhD, Named Robert S. Wallerstein Fellow in Psychoanalytic Research

• Research Update – States of Mind Preceding a Near Lethal Suicide Attempt: Understanding Pathways to Suicide and Associated Risk and Protective Factors

• Riggs Strategic Initiative Video Blog: Suicide Research and Education

• “Impact of Interpersonal Experiences on Maladaptive Thoughts and Behaviors:” Lessons Learned from the Pilot Study

• Interview with Katie Lewis, PhD, recipient of the Robert S. Wallerstein Fellowship in Psychoanalytic Research