December 2018 News & Events from Austen Riggs

December 2018 News & Events Popular Articles from the Riggs Blog

Eric Plakun_ MD
Austen Riggs Center Board of Trustees Appoints Eric M. Plakun, MD, as Medical Director/CEO
Speaking about his new role, Dr. Plakun said, “I am deeply honored and excited to take on the leadership of an institution whose work and mission I feel so wholly committed to.”
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13 Reasons Why Season 2: A Clinical Perspective
Riggs clinical staff member Elizabeth Weinberg, MD; and research psychologist Katie Lewis, PhD, offer a two-part series that explores the impact, consequences, and the portrayal of American teens in the controversial Netflix series, 13 Reasons Why.
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Gay, Communist, Yiddish Utopia

Click Here to Read: Gay, Communist, Yiddish Utopia: Artist Yevgeniy Fiks believes in a future of Yiddish-speaking space colonies By Vladislav Davidzon on the Tablet website on December 4, 2018.

Installation shot at the Cooper Union gallery of Yevgeniy Fiks’ conceptual, collaborative art project, Monument to Cold War Victory, which took the form of an open-call, international competition for a public Cold War victory monument. Image: Yevgeniy Fiks. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

A Cool Kid Communist Comeback

Click Here to Read: A Cool Kid Communist Comeback: Tablet is publishing works analyzing the state of the American left as part of an ongoing feature inspired by Paul Berman’s series of essays on the subject. The latest examines what’s behind the current revival of Communist-inspired politics, and where it’s leading. By Cathy Young on the Tablet website on December 4, 2018.