The Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program and Fellowship

The Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program and Fellowship

Expand your expertise through the Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program and Fellowship.

We offer an Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program and Fellowship 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.

We accept applicants for psychiatrists year round, and psychologists starting late summer/early fall for the 2026 program.

The Fellowship Includes Training In:

• Adult psychoanalysis
• Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
• A 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 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).

Benefits:

• Health Insurance: Medical, Dental and Vision
• Disability & Life Insurance
• Personal analysis reimbursement for 2 years
• Retirement plan 403(b) with employer contribution
• Flexible spending account and Health Reimbursement Account
• Generous Paid time off and 12 paid holidays
• Parental leave (9 weeks)
• Access to Onsite Library

*As a 501(c)(3) time worked in the fellowship qualifies as time worked towards the PSLF loan forgiveness program.

Prerequisites:

• Prerequisites for psychiatry applicants include completion of a psychiatric residency.
• In addition, three letters of recommendation and a personal statement are required.

To apply please submit the following:

• a completed online application
• letter of interest
• curriculum vitae
• three letters of recommendation*
• and transcripts (undergraduate and graduate)*

* Letters of recommendation, transcripts and other relevant documents can be emailed directly to hr@austenriggs.net.