The Riggs Difference: Where Understanding Leads to Recovery
The Austen Riggs Center provides clinicians, researchers, scholars, and members of the general public with free access to a large array of articles, videos, courses and other resources related to mental health care.
The Austen Fox Riggs Library and Archives is a unique resource, providing clinicians, scholars, and researchers with access to specialized psychological texts and medical archives.
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Special Events
Riggs Theatre 37's winter production runs December 17-21.
Educational Events
Stephen E. Finn, PhD, discusses Therapeutic Assessment, a brief intervention during which psychological testing is used collaboratively with clients to help them develop new self-narratives that are more coherent, accurate, useful, and compassionate.
Educational Events
Dagmar Herzog, PhD, resituates the hundredthousandfold Nazi coercive “eugenic” sterilizations and “euthanasia” murders of people with cognitive impairments and psychiatric diagnoses in a longer history of lethal malice toward the vulnerable.
Conferences
Donna Elmendorf, PhD, serves as associate director and Megan Kolano, PsyD, ABPP, serves as a consultant at this residential group relations conference.
Educational Events
Katie Lewis, PhD, presents a virtual grand rounds for the Jacobs School of Medicine at the University at Buffalo
Conferences
Daniel Knauss, PsyD, ABPP; and Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP, present at the 2026 American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) National Meeting in San Francisco, CA, from January 27-February 1.
Educational Events
Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD, talks about clinicians working with overwhelm as both a challenge and an art form: it requires therapists, to make themselves permeable to patients in ways that make therapists exquisitely vulnerable.
Special Events
Ed Shapiro, MD, joins filmmaker Michele Beck for a virtual screening her film Learning to Speak.
Educational Events
Dionne R. Powell, MD, expands on how we become raced by exploring the transgenerational transmission of racial trauma, and its intra-psychic, structuralizing components.
Resource
Special Events
Riggs Theatre 37's winter production runs December 17-21.
Educational Events
Stephen E. Finn, PhD, discusses Therapeutic Assessment, a brief intervention during which psychological testing is used collaboratively with clients to help them develop new self-narratives that are more coherent, accurate, useful, and compassionate.
Educational Events
Dagmar Herzog, PhD, resituates the hundredthousandfold Nazi coercive “eugenic” sterilizations and “euthanasia” murders of people with cognitive impairments and psychiatric diagnoses in a longer history of lethal malice toward the vulnerable.
Conferences
Donna Elmendorf, PhD, serves as associate director and Megan Kolano, PsyD, ABPP, serves as a consultant at this residential group relations conference.
Educational Events
Katie Lewis, PhD, presents a virtual grand rounds for the Jacobs School of Medicine at the University at Buffalo
Conferences
Daniel Knauss, PsyD, ABPP; and Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP, present at the 2026 American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) National Meeting in San Francisco, CA, from January 27-February 1.
Educational Events
Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD, talks about clinicians working with overwhelm as both a challenge and an art form: it requires therapists, to make themselves permeable to patients in ways that make therapists exquisitely vulnerable.
Special Events
Ed Shapiro, MD, joins filmmaker Michele Beck for a virtual screening her film Learning to Speak.
Educational Events
Dionne R. Powell, MD, expands on how we become raced by exploring the transgenerational transmission of racial trauma, and its intra-psychic, structuralizing components.
Resource
Special Events
Riggs Theatre 37's winter production runs December 17-21.
Educational Events
Stephen E. Finn, PhD, discusses Therapeutic Assessment, a brief intervention during which psychological testing is used collaboratively with clients to help them develop new self-narratives that are more coherent, accurate, useful, and compassionate.
Educational Events
Dagmar Herzog, PhD, resituates the hundredthousandfold Nazi coercive “eugenic” sterilizations and “euthanasia” murders of people with cognitive impairments and psychiatric diagnoses in a longer history of lethal malice toward the vulnerable.
Conferences
Donna Elmendorf, PhD, serves as associate director and Megan Kolano, PsyD, ABPP, serves as a consultant at this residential group relations conference.
Educational Events
Katie Lewis, PhD, presents a virtual grand rounds for the Jacobs School of Medicine at the University at Buffalo
Conferences
Daniel Knauss, PsyD, ABPP; and Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP, present at the 2026 American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) National Meeting in San Francisco, CA, from January 27-February 1.
Educational Events
Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD, talks about clinicians working with overwhelm as both a challenge and an art form: it requires therapists, to make themselves permeable to patients in ways that make therapists exquisitely vulnerable.
Special Events
Ed Shapiro, MD, joins filmmaker Michele Beck for a virtual screening her film Learning to Speak.
Educational Events
Dionne R. Powell, MD, expands on how we become raced by exploring the transgenerational transmission of racial trauma, and its intra-psychic, structuralizing components.