The Hospital on Main Street: Human Dignity and Mental Health at Austen Riggs

For Immediate Release:  The Austen Riggs Center to Open “The Hospital on Main Street: Human Dignity and Mental Health,” A Special Exhibition in Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Public Opening Set for Sunday, May 26, 2019

Exhibition Chronicles 100 Years of Austen Riggs, Explores the History of Mental Health Treatment, and Aims to Help Diminish Stigma that Often Surrounds Mental Illness

Stockbridge, MA – April 30, 2019 – The Austen Riggs Center is proud to announce the new exhibition, “The Hospital on Main Street: Human Dignity and Mental Health,” over Memorial Day Weekend. The exhibition will be located in the newly renovated annex of the Old Corner House in Stockbridge, and chronicles the history of Riggs, from its founding by Dr. Austen Fox Riggs in 1919, to its current position as a leading psychiatric Continue reading The Hospital on Main Street: Human Dignity and Mental Health at Austen Riggs

The Treatment of a Young Woman: Trauma and Anxiety Exacerbated by Cultural Components with Margaret Freedman at MITPP

MITPP OPEN HOUSE & CLINICAL PRESENTATION: FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING  Tuesday, June 25, 2019
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM THE TREATMENT OF A YOUNG WOMAN: TRAUMA AND ANXIETY EXACERBATED BY CULTURAL COMPONENTS

A young Chinese woman presented with anxiety and depression exacerbated by her birth in China during the period of One Child Rule and infanticide. The influence of trauma and cultural devaluation since Continue reading The Treatment of a Young Woman: Trauma and Anxiety Exacerbated by Cultural Components with Margaret Freedman at MITPP

Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses

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LIBERATION HEROES: THE LAST EYEWITNESSES Wednesday, May 1:  7pm ET/ 6pm CT/ 4pm PT and again at 11pmPT on DISCOVERY 

From Deadline: Discovery Channel will air the documentary Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses, on Wednesday, May 1 at 7 PM ET, to coincide with the nation’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The film draws on a collection of 55,000 testimonies of survivors and Continue reading Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses

A Brief History of Anti-Semitic Violence in America

Click Here to Read: A Brief History of Anti-Semitic Violence in America: The synagogue attack in Pittsburgh may be the deadliest attack against Jews in American history—but it’s nowhere near the first by Isabel Fattal on the Atlantic website on October 28, 2018.

Memorials to Victims. A memorial outside the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in Pittsburgh.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.