Psychoanalysts on the Separating Immigrant Children from Their Families

Click Here to Read: Press Release: American Psychoanalytic Association Calls Policy to Separate Immigrant Children Cruel on the APsaA website on May 31, 2018.

Click Here to Read: Separating Immigrant Families Is Harmful and Cruel Say Leading Mental Health and Social Justice Groups on the APsaA website on December 28, 2017.

Click Here to Read and View: Metrofocus Special Edition: the Battle at the Border on the Thirteen.org website on
JUNE 22, 2018.

“Leadership and Institutional Integrity” Theme of July 21st Austen Riggs Center Conference

For Immediate Release Media Contact: Aaron M. Beatty, Communications Officer, 413.931.5245 aaron.beatty@austenriggs.net “Leadership and Institutional Integrity” Theme of July 21st Austen Riggs Center Conference

Conference held in memory of the late Rev. Dr. A. Wesley Carr
Stockbridge, MA – June 28, 2018 – The Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center is pleased to announce “Leadership and Institutional Integrity,” a one-day conference on Saturday, July 21, being held in memory of the Rev. Dr. A. Wesley Carr, former Dean of Westminster Abbey (1997-2006), former Erikson Scholar, and former member of the Erikson Institute Council of Scholars of the Austen Riggs Center. The conference examines current leadership pressures in our major institutions of education, arts, government, and healthcare.
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Freud of the Rings

To friends and interns Shalom,

Who said that all the Freudians had long since moved from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv? I would like to invite you to a special exhibition that will open in July at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The exhibition was born in the mind of a young curator, Morag Wilhelm, who found in the museum’s cellars a seal ring that was given to the museum as part of the estate of psychoanalyst Eva Rosenfeld. The tracing of the source of the ring that was included in Rosenfeld’s estate met Morag with an unknown chapter in the history of psychoanalysis – Freud’s rings.
In the two years I worked with the museum staff as a scientific adviser to the exhibition I had the privilege of
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