Austen Riggs Center
A. Jill Clemence currently serves as President of the Society for Personality Assessment since July 2022 and has been a Licensed Psychologist-Doctorate at Rutland Regional Medical Center since August 2020. A. Jill Clemence also holds the position of Research Associate/Affiliate Faculty at Austen Riggs Center since August 2005, and has been an Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality Assessment since July 2013. Additionally, A. Jill Clemence is an Assistant Professor at Albany Medical College and a Staff Psychologist at Albany Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry, both roles held since January 2011. Prior experience includes serving as a Research Advisor at Smith College School of Social Work from August 2007 to August 2011. A. Jill Clemence earned a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, between 1998 and 2003.
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Austen Riggs Center
The Austen Riggs Center is known for its internationally-recognized tradition of providing intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy in a voluntary, open, and non-coercive community. Patients not helped in other settings can often benefit from deeper, more thorough psychodynamic evaluation and treatment. For over 100 years, the Riggs has offered long-term residential and hospital-level psychiatric treatment based on intensive, four-times-weekly individual psychotherapy, provided by psychiatrists. From hospital to residential to supervised and unsupervised apartment living, Riggs provides continuity of care with the same interdisciplinary team throughout a patient's stay. Treating an average of 60 patients, Riggs remains one of the few psychiatric treatment centers in the United States committed to the intensive work necessary to help patients take charge of their lives. Erikson Institute for Education and Research Erik H. Erikson, renowned humanist psychoanalyst and former Riggs staff member, recognized that individuals could not be understood apart from their psychosocial and historical contexts. Riggs' Erikson Institute develops this connection by promoting education and research in psychodynamic thought and treatment and by applying the clinical learning to the problems of the larger society. The Erikson Institute aims to bring the work of Riggs into dialogue with other mental health professionals, human service institutions, and scholars from a range of disciplines. The Erikson Institute includes: A Research Department and internships A Fellowship program in psychiatry and clinical psychology The Erikson Scholar program Lectures and workshops for mental health professionals An organizational consultation service, especially for human service institutions