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Austen Riggs Center
Austen Riggs Center
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25 Main Street Stockbridge, MA 01262
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Austen Riggs Center

Austen Riggs Center is a Hospital facility at 25 Main Street in Stockbridge, MA.
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25 Main Street, Stockbridge, MA 01262
Services Austen Riggs Center is a Hospital, clinic, emergency, medicine, doctor, ER, ICU, hospital room, hospital ward, nurse, doctor, physician, treatment facility

Please call Austen Riggs Center at (413) 298-5511 to schedule an appointment in Stockbridge, MA or get more information.
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(7 Reviews)
Staff
3 star average for Staff
Recommended
2.5 star average for Recommended
Environment
4 star average for Environment
Expertise
3 star average for Expertise
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If you have a complex trauma history run don’t walk away from thinking about Riggs as an option!! I spent( wasted) 369 very long extremely painful days there. My gut started screaming at me at about the six month mark that something was deeply wrong with the whole institution but I ignored what my intuition was telling me and bought in to the circus whole hog. The main treatment modality at Riggs is psychodynamic analysts. It is NOT healing for complex trauma! I’ve been home for 14 months and at least 50% of my 3 times a week Therapy has been spent undoing the damage inflicted on me by myself through the use of this outdated treatment modality. I was placed in the hands of a third year fellow who completely missed the boat in seeing what was happening right in front of her eyes. I had dozens of flashbacks during sessions while she just sat and did nothing. This only served to deepen the trauma and did nothing towards reducing symptoms, I went to Riggs with a minor movement disorder that worsened a 100 fold and yet it was completely ignored by staff.
The therapeutic community program is a free for all where anything goes except physical violence. There is no guidance from staff and it became nearly impossible for me to participate in most of the programs. A friend I made there who is still a patient said of the atmosphere there “ it’s like a blakfrday sale here all the time”. I likened it to the lord of the flies book I had read in high school.
This institution knows nothing about contemporary treatment, nor does it care to. The phrase “ trauma informed care is met with a blank stare. Similarly mention the work of leaeders in the field of the care and treatment of complex trauma and you feel as though you’ve committed some sort of offense.
Why this institution has such a high rating I do not know! I think it a case of people not being willing after spending so much time and money to say “ the emperor has know clothes”. Well I’m saying the emperor has know clothes and what’s more could care less that it doesn’t. Do your research before you decide to go to Riggs, I didn’t and very much regret it!
by Tim Sampson xxx.xxx.92.214
June 09, 2018
To my earlier comments, I would add that most, if not all, of the therapists were counter-transference junkies, and really quite useless in that they lacked insight as a result of the veneration of their counter-transference experiences. Omlettes were good, though. As was the German laundry lady back in those days and the wonderful mountains ringing the town. My successes in life are in spite of the place and its therapists. Caveat emptor!
by seamusartaud xxx.xxx.43.101
February 13, 2017
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Somewhat, I wasn't overly impressed
Would you refer this provider to a family or friend?
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