MA in anthropology from Stanford University

A board-certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, family researcher, and organizational consultant, Edward R. Shapiro, MD, is the Medical Director/CEO of the Austen Riggs Center effective January 1, 2025. Dr. Shapiro was a distinguished faculty member in the Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center. He is the former Medical Director/CEO of the Center (1991-2011).

An organizational consultant for over thirty-five years, Dr. Shapiro has consulted with hospitals, mental health clinics, law firms, and family businesses. He has published over fifty articles and book chapters on human and organizational development, family functioning, and personality disorders, presenting papers in this country and abroad. He is the author of 

Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self-Reflective Institutions, Leaders and Citizens

 (Phoenix, 2020). His book (with A. W. Carr), 

Lost in Familiar Places: Creating New Connections between the Individual and Society

, was published by Yale University Press (1991) as was his edited book, 

The Inner World in the Outer World: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

For a list (and downloadable copies) of Dr. Shapiro's publications, see: 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Edward_Shapiro2/contributions

Professional Affiliations / Organizational Memberships

Founding member of the Psychoanalytic Society and Institute of the Berkshires

Advisory board member of Partners Confronting Collective Atrocities

Board member of the International Dialogue Initiative

Principal of the Boswell Group of New York

Clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine

Certification in Psychoanalysis from the American Psychoanalytic Association

Fellow of the A.K. Rice Institute and the American College of Psychoanalysis

Felix and Helene Deutsch Scientific Award from the Boston Psychoanalytic Society

Research Prize from the Society for Family Therapy and Research

Philip Isenberg Teaching Award from McLean Hospital

Named 2007 “Outstanding Psychiatrist for Advancement of the Profession” by the Massachusetts Psychiatric Association

Named “Top Doctor” by U.S. News & World Report since 2011

Leadership

Administrative Staff

Medical Director/CEO

, was interviewed by Grant Hilary Brenner MD, DFAPA, for the piece "

Listening and Learning to Navigate Tough Work and Social Groups

Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self-Reflective Institutions, Leaders, and Citizens

 by Edward R. Shapiro, MD. ​​With so much worth sharing, I reached out to Dr. Shapiro, who kindly agreed to let me interview him. This is the second of two posts."

When we focus on how we are right, we immediately shut down possibilities to learn and listen.

Asking "How are they right?" is a game-changing question that opens us to valuable if difficult insights.

Leadership is crucial for this to happen in the broad political and social landscape.

Our society is facing challenges that present opportunities to improve our capacity to relate and succeed.


Clinical Perspectives

Erikson Institute Distinguished Faculty Ed Shapiro, MD, was interviewed for a recent piece in Psychology Today (Part 2)

Listening and Learning to Navigate Tough Work and Social Groups

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