Click Here to Read: Thornton Wilder’s depression By John Willson on the Chronicles Magazine website on December 06, 2018.
Thornton Wilder Photo: Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
December 2018 News & Events Popular Articles from the Riggs Blog

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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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3 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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Click Here to Read: Freud’s Trials Before Michelangelo’s Moses and the Classical Psychoanalytic Technique-a Causal Connection? by Robert L. Lippman, Ph.D
Moses by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Tomb (1505-1545) for Julius II, San Pietro in Vincoli (Rome) Classical Psychoanalytic__ Technique
Photo: Jörg Bittner Unna
Click Here to Read: China Is About To Launch A Daring Mission To Land On The Moon. So Why Do You Know Nothing About It? by Jamie Carter on the Forbes Magazine website on December 5, 2018.
A Spacesuit worn on the Shenzhou 5, Chinese space mission. Date: 2007 Photo: Max Smith, Megapixie. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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