2019 Centennial Conference,  addressing the Mental Health Crisis in America at Austen Riggs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER ANNOUNCES 2019 CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE,  ADDRESSING THE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN AMERICA

Annual Fall Conference Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Renowned Psychiatric Hospital

Stockbridge, MA – January 23, 2019 – The Austen Riggs Center (Riggs) will convene a conference of national and international experts in the fields of mental health care, treatment, research, advocacy, and the law to explore The Mental Health Crisis in America: Recognizing Problems, Continue reading 2019 Centennial Conference,  addressing the Mental Health Crisis in America at Austen Riggs

When Psychoanalysts Believed in Magic

Click Here to Read:  When Psychoanalysts Believed in Magic: Sigmund Freud told Carl Jung it was important to keep sexuality at the center of the human psyche, rather than anything spiritualist by By: Livia Gershon on the JStor website on January 22, 2019.

Group photo in front of Clark University: Front row: Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, C. G. Jung; Back row: Abraham A. Brill, Ernest Jones, Sándor Ferenczi.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

The Frame – Part II at CFS

Psychoanalytic Brooklyn: Invites you to a Continuing Education Seminar The Frame – Part II * Friday, February 15, 2019 1:00 to 2:30pm

* As each session stands on its own, the first is not a prerequisite for the second.

We’re familiar with the usual ways patients use the frame to communicate with us – lateness, cancellations, payment issues, etc. But what about the more subtle, idiosyncratic ways? Where and how a patient sits? How s/he enters and leaves? Eating/drinking in sessions, behaviors in our waiting room, use of the bathroom, etc. As clinicians, we open ourselves up to observing – warmly, non-judgmentally, compassionately – all the ways our patients communicate with us. Continue reading The Frame – Part II at CFS