Todd Essig, PhD, explores the clinical state of play amid the rapidly accelerating developments with AI, with a focus on how psychoanalytic sensibilities can help us think, feel, and act in response.

David Mintz, MD, presents "The 16-Minute Hour: Integrating Focal Psychotherapy Interventions into Routine Pharmacotherapy."

Riggs staff members Jerry Fromm, PhD, ABPP; Samar Habl, MD; and Megan Kolano, PsyD, ABPP, serve on the conference staff for this international group relations online conference.

Several Austen Riggs Center staff members present at the ISSPD's International Congress.

Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP, focuses on the “pseudo-self” – a particular variation of dissociative organization in which normality and functionality camouflage the absence of emotional authenticity.

Golzar Naghshineh, MS, LP, CGP, and Nancy Kaufman, LCSW, LP, explore (among other things) new theories on how infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and loss impact the psyche of this specific population.

Brin Grenyer, PhD, overviews 30 years of studies from his and other research groups that includes studies of transference, attachment, mastery of self-understanding and self-control, and emotional and cognitive change.

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.

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.

Katie Lewis, PhD, presents a virtual grand rounds for the Jacobs School of Medicine at the University at Buffalo

Todd Essig, PhD, explores the clinical state of play amid the rapidly accelerating developments with AI, with a focus on how psychoanalytic sensibilities can help us think, feel, and act in response.

David Mintz, MD, presents "The 16-Minute Hour: Integrating Focal Psychotherapy Interventions into Routine Pharmacotherapy."

Riggs staff members Jerry Fromm, PhD, ABPP; Samar Habl, MD; and Megan Kolano, PsyD, ABPP, serve on the conference staff for this international group relations online conference.

Several Austen Riggs Center staff members present at the ISSPD's International Congress.

Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP, focuses on the “pseudo-self” – a particular variation of dissociative organization in which normality and functionality camouflage the absence of emotional authenticity.

Golzar Naghshineh, MS, LP, CGP, and Nancy Kaufman, LCSW, LP, explore (among other things) new theories on how infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and loss impact the psyche of this specific population.

Brin Grenyer, PhD, overviews 30 years of studies from his and other research groups that includes studies of transference, attachment, mastery of self-understanding and self-control, and emotional and cognitive change.

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.

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.

Katie Lewis, PhD, presents a virtual grand rounds for the Jacobs School of Medicine at the University at Buffalo