Media Alert: For Immediate Release
National and International Leaders Address Mental Health Care Crisis and Explore Solutions at Austen Riggs Center Conference

Stockbridge, MA – August 15, 2019 – Increasing rates of suicide, depression, and PTSD, along with the opioid epidemic, underscore an unprecedented crisis in mental health care in the United States. This September, during a two-day international conference convened by the Austen Riggs Center, leading experts in the fields of mental health treatment, research, advocacy, and the law will present unique insights and solutions to these and other pressing issues. Presenters will challenge the status quo, which often uses a narrow biomedical lens to look at mental health problems and that prioritizes reimbursement for crisis stabilization over taking the critical time needed to address root causes of patient suffering.

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents Frank Auerbach, The Pillar Box (2011) MEMBERS’ PRESENTATIONS Psychoanalysis and Fiction (Part II)

What Do Women Want Today? November 8th and 9th, 2019 Washington DC

NYPSI’s 1037th Scientific Program Meeting:  The Legacy of Margaret Mahler: Its Relevance to Current Analytic Practice with Children and Adults with panelists: Patricia Nachman, Ph.D., Wendy Olesker, Ph.D., Fred Pine, Ph.D., and  Susan P. Sherkow, M.D. (moderator)

In its Centennial Year, the Austen Riggs Center is convening a conference of national and international experts in the fields of mental health treatment, research, advocacy, and the law titled, “The Mental Health Crisis in America: Recognizing Problems, Working Toward Solutions,”to be held September 21-22, 2019 at Tanglewood’s new Linde Center for Music and Learning in Lenox, MA.

Featured Speakers and Panelists include:
Meiram Bendat, JD, Francine Conway, PhD, Anita Everett, MD, DFAPA, Peter Fonagy, PhD, OBE, FMedSci, FAcSS, FBA, Jeffrey Geller, MD, MPH, Carol Gilligan, PhD, Tom Insel, MD, Harold Kudler, MD, Saul Levin, MD, MPA, FRCP-E, Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP, Caroline Reynolds, Esq.
along with several Austen Riggs Center clinical staff members

The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of The Contemporary Freudian Society Analytic Listening: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice

We are pleased to offer a six-week course on analytic listening beginning Fall 2019.  This course qualifies for 9 Continuing Education credits.

Enrollment Criteria: This course is suitable for students from a wide variety of backgrounds, including practicing clinicians from all disciplines, recent graduates of masters-level or doctoral-level programs, professionals considering changing careers, and anyone eligible to apply for post-graduate psychoanalytic training.