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Undoubtedly most of you have heard of the recent developments at the Austen Riggs Foundation. In January, 1947, Dr. Robert P. Knight was appointed Medical Director of the Austen Riggs Foundation at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and assumed the directorship in September of that year. The Riggs Foundation as you may know, was oriented essentially around a program of reeducative psychotherapy, somewhat removed from psychoanalysis. The appointment of Dr. Knight suggests a widening of orientation and perhaps the establishment of a program in which psychoanalysis will play a vital rôle. This is also suggested by the staff members who are joining Dr. Knight. In the summer of 1948 Drs. Merton Gill, Joseph Chassell, David Rapaport, and Margaret Bremman will be working at the Riggs Foundation. Drs. Gill and Bremman will be doing half-time research, and Dr. Rapaport full-time research and teaching.
Dr. Knight plans to develop a center for inpatient psychotherapy of all types, but mostly dynamically oriented, for voluntary patients who can live in an open building under minimal supervision. They do not propose to take disturbed or unwilling patients.
A three-year resident training program to meet the requirements of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology is being conducted and will provide training analyses for residents under the auspices of approved Institutes.
By the way, Dr. Joseph Chassell, who is joining Dr. Knight, is making a few changes. He has left the faculty at Bennington College, plans to spend the first half of 1948 in Washington, D. C., teaching at the Washington-Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute, and then in August is off for Stockbridge.
As another sign of the times, Yale University has been doing a bit of reorganization, which has also taken cognizance of the vital rôle that psychoanalysis can play in medical education. Dr.