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Austen Riggs Center Launches In-Depth Assessment for Individuals Seeking Clarification of Their Mental Health Treatment Needs

Riggs now offering a new short-term assessment service.
STOCKBRIDGE, MA – January 16, 2018: The Austen Riggs Center is pleased to announce that it has started a new assessment program for adults who are looking to clarify the nature of their struggles and to identify appropriate treatment resources.

IPTAR’s ARTS AND SOCIETY COMMITTEE Invites You to An Art Opening of Reproductions of ​Major
Works by CHARLES WHITE (from the Gordon Collection at the CEJJES Institute) CEJJES INSTITUTE.org
On the Occasion of Charles White’ 100th Birthday Year, January 20, 2018, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm

IPTAR Conference Room, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, IPTAR.org
1651 Third Avenue, Suite 205 New York City
Brief Presentation by Professor Edmund W. Gordon
Followed by Wine and Cheese Reception
Arts and Society Committee: Co-Chairs: Rena Matison Greenblatt
and Roda Neugebauer; Thrae Harris, Sarah Valeri and Matthew von Unwerth

Contributions Welcome

Those who plan to attend the APsaA conference, at New York Midtown Hilton, in Feb. of 2018, we invite you to our clinical case discussion group: Towards an Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness.

Dr. Danielle Knafo will present her clinical and theoretical material that describes her treatment of a singular young Japanese man, Hisoka, who epitomized the phenomenon of Hikikikomori. The hikikikomori are young people who live extremely solitary lives, never leaving their homes and hardly coming out of their rooms. At the onset of therapy, Hisoka only emerged for his therapy sessions and even then he hardly participated in a usual manner. The therapeutic work involved the creation of a safe holding space within which Hisoka learned to face the derailments of his early attachments and to engage in a mutual relationship. He gradually took steps to interact with the analyst and the outside world. The experience transformed both him and the analyst.