Fellowship for Psychiatrists

Expand your expertise through the Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program and Fellowship in Hospital-Based Psychotherapy for psychiatrists and psychologists.

We offer an Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program and Fellowship in Hospital-Based Psychotherapy for both psychiatrists (post-residency) and psychologists (postdoctoral). Psychiatrists are also eligible to apply for a two-year Fellowship. Psychology Fellows are eligible for licensure after completion of the first 24 months of the postdoctoral Fellowship.

Our psychoanalytic training program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Psychoanalytic Education (ACPEinc). This program is part of the Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center. Our training includes a systems perspective, emphasizing individual development across the lifespan from within familial and cultural contexts. Fellows learn to work with disturbances in patients’ interpersonal and treatment contexts that reflect and illuminate patients’ intrapsychic struggles, fostering a more integrative approach while developing leadership skills and consulting skills.

The Fellowship Includes Training In:

• Adult psychoanalysis
• Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
• A hospital-based systems perspective
• Family therapy work
• Psychological testing (for psychologists)
• Psychodynamic psychopharmacology (for psychiatrists)
• Work within a therapeutic community program, where learning is focused on the application of psychoanalytic understanding to group phenomena, and on the development of leadership skills and consulting skills

Fellows Benefit From:

• Clinical supervision
• Weekly didactic seminars by a distinguished faculty from Riggs, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, and other prestigious institutions
• Financial support for two years (300 hours) of personal analysis
• Opportunities to engage in clinical research related to complex mental illness
• Support for external education and conference attendance, and use of the superb Riggs on-site library and library services

Our Program Prepares Fellows To:

• Work effectively with patients with complex psychiatric difficulties
• Understand a psychodynamic systems perspective in a therapeutic community program
• Teach and supervise others
• Contribute to the body of knowledge about disturbed development and its treatment

Satisfactory completion of the first two years of the Austen Riggs Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program and Fellowship in Hospital-Based Psychotherapy meets postdoctoral supervised practice requirements for licensure in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for Psychology Fellows.

Fellows are evaluated annually by supervisors (written and oral report) and throughout the academic year by individual instructors (written report).

Our psychoanalytic training program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Psychoanalytic Education (ACPEinc).

To apply: please submit a completed application, letter of interest, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and transcripts (undergraduate and graduate) online https://www.austenriggs.org/about/careersApplication materials can also be directed to Human Resources email: hr@austenriggs.net or fax: (413) 298-4020 (Attn: Human Resources)

Austen Riggs Center is committed to equal opportunity, a diverse workforce, and an inclusive environment. We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.