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Name: We asked Dan Knauss, Psy.D., ABPP, Director of Training, and David Mintz… | Austen Riggs Center
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Description: We asked Dan Knauss, Psy.D., ABPP, Director of Training, and David Mintz, MD, Director of Psychiatric Education, to answer frequently asked questions about the Austen Riggs Center Fellowship. Here's what they had to say about the benefits of the Fellowship. Watch the entire series and learn more about the Fellowship at https://lnkd.in/ghESKiRM.

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We asked Dan Knauss, Psy.D., ABPP, Director of Training, and David Mintz, MD, Director of Psychiatric Education, to answer frequently asked questions about the Austen Riggs Center Fellowship. Here's what they had to say about the benefits of the Fellowship. Watch the entire series and learn more about the Fellowship at https://lnkd.in/ghESKiRM.

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So there are, there are some really significant benefits of employment and of the fellowship here at the Austen Riggs Center and some of which if I forget, I trust you know, pitching, but some, some that often aren't recognized that are worth noting. One is of course our our provision of a stipend for the psychoanalysis of the fellows, the training analysis, which ends up being often one of the most significant barriers to people going into psychoanalytic training. It's the enormous cost and so for us it's a matter of equity actually to try to support people in their learning who would be outstanding candidates as as analysts but otherwise couldn't afford the training. So financial support for the analysis. We also as a nonprofit organization qualify for loan repayment for for physicians who have student loans. And there are also some benefits for psychologists even within Massachusetts that have been recent which have been wonderful. So it's an opportunity for those who have accrued the burden of significant. Student debt to try to remediate some of that. We also have financial support through the Erikson Institute and through the training program itself for ongoing learning, which is really remarkable. Our fellows consistently are attending national conferences both through the American Psychoanalytic or Division 39 if they're psychologists or the American Psychiatric and other psychiatry specific conferences, both to attend and learn, but also to present and to participate as discussants. And so that's that's part of our tradition here and part of what we encourage. It's not just to be solid analytic clinicians, but also scholarly and involved in the field outside of here as representatives of what they've learned in the Fellowship. So we provide for fellows $3000 annually through the Erikson Institute for ongoing education and training that can be applied to conferences and other events, and an additional $1000 through the training director's budget for learning and other opportunities as well. So, you know, for many people who are just starting and training and aren't making much money. Again, it's a burden to be able to travel and to go to conferences and present and yet, it's such an important part of professional development and being present in the community outside of the work that we do here at Riggs. So we support that financially and we also support it relationally by encouraging it and maintaining and fostering that sort of growth. Um, the Fellowship is also a place where as much as you're engaged in, in a very rigorous work, learning, there is a lot of autonomy to shape your schedule in collaboration with your patients. You know, outside of the, the sort of daily work and meetings we're expected to do, fellows can shape their time and their engagements as they'd like. And so it can be kind of jarring, I think for people from, who come from very oppressive systems that expect you to be here or there doing this or that all the time. There's a sort of freedom to learn and to be. Which is very nice. Umm, we do have health insurance and benefits for our fellows is as employees of the staff here at Austen Riggs, which is in my experience, very good and comprehensive and useful insurance, especially for those who are coming here with the burden of a a family that needs to acclimate to a new environment in the Berkshires. And, and I guess I would say to me, at least one of the perks of being here is being in the Berkshires, which is a lovely place that is, although quite rural, culturally rich. And also conveniently kind of located not too far from New York City and not too far from Boston. And so it's easy enough to to be in a large city if that's desired. But I'm sure I'm missing some of the perks that might be undermined. Well, yeah, I guess I would say for starters, you know, maybe one of the biggest ones is you get paid to become a psychoanalyst, which is which is very unique. Generous with vacation time, so there's five weeks paid vacation. There is generous with things like parental leave. So it's a very, it's a systems very generous with in those ways. And I would also say, I think there's a recognition that that a four year, 4 years of training, you know, for, for some people, it could just go out and hang up a shingle, you know, does represent some opportunity costs. One of the ways that Riggs deals with that is they rent you your office for a very minimal fee and make it easy for people to develop a private practice once they're licensed. And so it certainly makes it easier to to, you know, appreciate the Berkshires when you're when you have extra sources of income. But even there the as Fellowships go, it's is generally well compensated.

Thomas Franklin, M.D.

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The Austen Riggs Center Fellowship is the premiere experience of its kind in the country and maybe the world. I highly recommend it.

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