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Austen Riggs April 2017 News & Events
Austen Riggs News and Events
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April 2017 News & Events
New Strategic Initiatives at the Austen Riggs Center
Recently, the Austen Riggs Center Board of Trustees and staff undertook a comprehensive strategic planning process that prioritized a number of initiatives designed to expand our role and positively impact the serious mental health issues we face as a society. These include: clinical systems, neural mediators of psychotherapeutic change, human development, biopsychosocial advocacy, suicide research and education, and psychodynamic psychopharmacology. You can read about the first three of these initiatives below:
Strategic Initiatives: Clinical Systems
By Margaret Parish, PhD

Our strategic planning process begins with our core clinical mission. The Austen Riggs Center exists, first and foremost, as a place where people can bring their troubles, learn about themselves, and discover resources and support for confronting the challenges of their lives. The Clinical Systems Strategic Initiative has three parts: redesigning the infrastructure that supports our ongoing clinical work, enhancing specific clinical programs, and seeking ways to offer our services to new groups of people. >>Read more Continue reading Austen Riggs April 2017 News & Events
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“Through the Looking Glass….” Dreams and dream-states in the Psychoanalytic Encounter Join the conversation. at IPTAR
Sunday Salon at IPTAR: “Through the Looking Glass….” Dreams and dream-states in the Psychoanalytic Encounter Join the conversation.
Sunday April 30, 2017, Roundtable 3:00-5:00 all are invited, Open House reception to follow 5:00-6:00
IPTAR: 1651 Third Ave. #205 (92nd and Third Ave.)
Mary Libbey, PhD
(IPTAR Fellow and Faculty)
Bruce Reis, PhD
(IPTAR Member and Faculty)
Tuba Tokgoz, PhD
(IPTAR Member and Faculty)
Moderator: Michael Moskowitz, PhD
(IPTAR Fellow and Faculty) Continue reading “Through the Looking Glass….” Dreams and dream-states in the Psychoanalytic Encounter Join the conversation. at IPTAR
Transgender Life: Social and Clinical Considerations with Wendy Olesker, PhD, Ken Corbett, Ph.D., Griffin Hansbury, M.A., L.M.S.W. and Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D. at NYPSI
NYPSI’s 1020th Scientific Program Meeting: Transgender Life: Social and Clinical Considerations with Wendy Olesker, PhD, Ken Corbett, Ph.D., Griffin Hansbury, M.A., L.M.S.W. and Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D.
Transgender Life: Social and Clinical Considerations
Moderator Wendy Olesker, PhD, and Panelists Ken Corbett, Ph.D.,
Griffin Hansbury, M.A., L.M.S.W. and Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D.
Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 8 pm
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves)
The presenters will highlight, based on their experiences in working with transgender patients, the complex contribution of the changing social world and the role of gender regulation, from a psychoanalytic perspective. The focus is also on the clinical process, including ways to prevent misattunement and ruptures due to unrecognized countertransference. Continue reading Transgender Life: Social and Clinical Considerations with Wendy Olesker, PhD, Ken Corbett, Ph.D., Griffin Hansbury, M.A., L.M.S.W. and Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D. at NYPSI


