Austen Riggs Center
Ellen Broderick serves as the owner of Broderick Art since 2006, specializing in the design and marketing of original sumi-e style watercolor notecards. Additionally, Ellen has been the Education, Group and Activities Coordinator at the Austen Riggs Center since November 2004, and a member of the African American Heritage Trail Committee since 2003, focusing on educating the public about the contributions of African Americans in the Berkshires of Massachusetts and Northwestern Connecticut. Previous experience includes a teaching position at Berkshire Country Day School from 1994 to 2004 and work as a Recreation Therapist at St. Ann Institute from 1983 to 1985. Ellen holds a Master of Science in Education with a focus on Guidance and Counseling from Plymouth State University and a Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education from Wheelock College.
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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