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Nursing Care at the Austen Riggs Center: A Relational Approach
Nursing at Riggs is different from many other psychiatric settings. In this video series, Riggs nursing staff members engage in conversation about the challenging and rewarding work they do in a...
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Examined Living: A Nursing Conversation at the Austen Riggs Center
Nursing at Riggs is different from many other psychiatric settings. In this video series, Riggs nursing staff members engage in conversation about the challenging and rewarding work they do in a...
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The Therapeutic Community Program at Riggs: Overview and History
by Aaron BeattyThe Therapeutic Community Program at Riggs represents the practical application of the values at the core of our work. These include:Recognition, appreciation and enhancement of...
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Is Your Prescribing Really Evidence Based?
David Mintz, MD "Posted with permission of Psychiatric News, American Psychiatric Association, © 2016. This article originally appeared in the May 20 issue of Psychiatric News PsychoPharm bimonthly...
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Supporting NAMI’s Work on the Local, State and National Stage
According to their website, NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, “is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of...
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Inclusiveness and Intangibles in the Open Setting
This article appears in the Spring 2016 (Vol 9, Issue 2) ARC News.Listening, questioning and “opening things up” are values central both to the clinical work at Riggs and to the way the Riggs community...
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What Enables Us to Provide Excellent Clinical Care?
by Margaret Parish, PhD, Director of Patient CareExcellent patient care is our most important work at Riggs. It is what we do best, and it is what draws people – patients and staff alike – to the...
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Preserving a Biopsychosocial Approach in Medication and Medical Services
by Nicholas Holliday, MDWhen I arrived at Austen Riggs in 1997, the biological revolution in psychiatry was gaining momentum, increasingly eclipsing the biopsychosocial model in which I was trained....
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Newly Appointed Director of Admissions, Samar Habl, MD, Keeps Families in Mind
The Austen Riggs Center is a unique residential treatment center that offers a completely open and voluntary setting for adults with complex psychiatric problems. In place of locks and privilege...
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Advocating for a Biopsychosocial Approach to Care
What is a biopsychosocial approach to mental health and why is it important?The term “biopsychosocial” has its origins in the 1970s, when psychiatrist George Engel urged the adoption of a framework...
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The “Dose of the Doctor” Matters
by David Mintz, MDThis is a good time for American psychiatry. After nearly a quarter century of a reductionistic focus on biology and medications as mutative factors in mental health, psychiatry is...
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Loneliness and the Capacity to be Alone
by Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPPRecently, I was invited to participate in Boston College University's Counseling Services Colloquium on Loneliness and presented my ideas regarding “Loneliness and the...
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Erikson Scholar Dr. Nancy McWilliams: Mental Health Treatment Beyond Symptom...
The Austen Riggs Center has been on the radar of psychologist, psychoanalyst, author, and recent (June - August, 2016) Erikson Scholar Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP, since her years as a graduate student...
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The Signals of Loneliness
by Andrew J. Gerber, MD, PhDIt is known that being lonely, or on the social perimeter, impacts the way a person behaves and interfaces with the world, and is detrimental to health. People who feel...
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A New Blog Where Meaning Really Matters
by John Prusinski, Meaning Matters Community Coordinator Meaning Matters is an online community, hosted by the Austen Riggs Center, that provides a place for mental health professionals and those in...
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The Riggs Blog: Top Blogs of 2016 – Part 2
Last week we featured some of our top blogs of 2016. This week, we bring you the rest of the list:The “Dose of the Doctor” Mattersby David Mintz, MD Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder at the...
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Should Therapy be Fun? – Commentary on a Recent WSJ Article
Associate Medical Director and Director of Biopsychosocial Advocacy Eric M. Plakun, MD, offers some commentary on a recently published Wall Street Journal article:The Wall Street Journal recently...
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Strategic Initiatives: Clinical Systems
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...
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New Materials to Provide an Overview of Treatment at Riggs
We recently updated some of our materials to provide an overview of our treatment program and an orientation for families. Click on the images below to view or download a PDF.In the Austen Riggs...
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Strategic Initiatives: Human Development
by Donna Elmendorf, PhDI am delighted to announce the launch of the Human Development Strategic Initiative at the Austen Riggs Center. The primary aim of this new endeavor is to support infant, child,...
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