October 2017 News & Events
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October 2017 News & Events

The Riggs Blog

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The Opioid Epidemic

We recently wrapped up a four-part series on the opioid epidemic. You can find links to all four pieces below:
The Opioid Epidemic blog series

Something for the Pain

The Opioid Epidemic: A Clinical Perspective

The Opioid Epidemic: A Local Perspective

The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions . . . and with the Influence of Big Pharma

 

We’re All Students Here

Pottery Instructor Michael McCarthy writes about his role as a teacher in the Activities Program at the Austen Riggs Center in an article for Studio Potter journal.
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Socialized Medicine Has Won the Health Care Debate: Lindsey Graham and the Republicans tried to use the “S-word” to scare Americans about health care
By Categories: General News

Click Here to Read:   Socialized Medicine Has Won the Health Care Debate: Lindsey Graham and the Republicans tried to use the “S-word” to scare Americans about health care. It doesn’t work anymore BY Sarah Jaffe in The New Republic on September 29, 2017.

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Philosophy Thursday: Thomas Kuhn
By Categories: Philosophy Thursday

Click Here to Read: Thomas Kuhn on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:  Thomas Kuhn on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Website.

Click Here to Read:   Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science: Fifty years ago, a book by Thomas Kuhn altered the way we look at the philosophy behind science, as well as introducing the much abused phrase ‘paradigm shift’ John Naughton on the Guardian website on August 18, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth” By John Horgan in Scientific American on May 23, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Second Thoughts: Did Thomas Kuhn Help Elect Donald Trump?: Scholars debate filmmaker Errol Morris’s attack on Kuhn’s influential philosophy of science By John Horgan in the Scientific American on June 1, 2017. Continue reading Philosophy Thursday: Thomas Kuhn

Explore the World’s Largest Online Database of Jewish Art, from Antiquity to Today
By Categories: Art

Click Here to Read:  Explore the World’s Largest Online Database of Jewish Art, from Antiquity to Today: The database’s 260,000 catalogue entries, the fruits of 30 years of research, range from modernist synagogues to ancient Hebrew illuminated manuscripts by Claire Voon on September 27, 2017.

Mosaic floor depicting Helios from a synagogue in Hammath Tiberias, Israel (286–337 BCE) (all images courtesy Center for Jewish Art / Hebrew University)

In Our Times, Psychoanalysis Celebrating Thirty Years of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association at Après-Coup
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Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents

COLLOQUIUM
In Our Times, Psychoanalysis Celebrating Thirty Years of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association October 6–8, 2017 The School of Visual Arts 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10011

Friday, October 6, 5:30 pm Registration, 6:00 pm Opening Remarks: Ona Nierenberg, Paola Mieli, 6:30 pm On the Discourse of Science

Liliana Donzis, Escuela Freudiana de Buenos Aires, The Desire of the Analyst and the Medicalization of Childhood

Peter Gillespie, Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, Capturing the Desire of the Worker: From Scientific Management to the Psychoanalytic Clinic Continue reading In Our Times, Psychoanalysis Celebrating Thirty Years of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association at Après-Coup