Dr. Edward Robert Shapiro, MD

Dr. Edward R. Shapiro is the Medical Director/CEO of the Austen Riggs Center. A board certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, family researcher, and organizational consultant, he is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. A Founding Member of the Psychoanalytic Society and Institute of the Berkshires, Dr. Shapiro is a Training and Supervising Analyst. An organizational consultant for over twenty-five years, Dr. Shapiro has consulted with hospitals, mental health clinics, law firms, and family businesses. Co-author (with A. Wesley Carr, Ph.D., Dean of Westminster Abbey) of Lost in Familiar Places: Creating New Connections between the Individual and Society (Yale, 1991), Dr. Shapiro is also the editor of The Inner World in the Outer World (Yale, 1997). Dr. Shapiro has published over fifty articles and book chapters on human development, organizational and family functioning, and …personality disorders, presenting papers in the country and abroad. A Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, he is also a Fellow of the A.K. Rice Institute and the American College of Psychoanalysis. Dr. Shapiro has received the Felix and Helene Deutsch Scientific Award from the Boston Psychoanalytic Society, the Research Prize from the Society for Family Therapy and Research, and the Philip Isenberg Teaching Award from McLean Hospital. In 2007, he was named Outstanding Psychiatrist for Advancement of the Profession by the Massachusetts Psychiatric Association. He is a Member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.

Dr. Shapiro graduated from Yale College, received an M.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University, an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and Certification in Psychoanalysis from the American Psychoanalytic Association. A graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, where he is currently on the Faculty, Dr. Shapiro was a Clinical Associate at the Adult Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health. At McLean Hospital in Boston, he was Founder and Director of the Adolescent and Family Treatment and Study Center and Director of Psychosocial Training and Consultation.

Since joining the staff of the Austen Riggs Center in 1991, Dr. Shapiro has devoted his energies to helping the staff preserve the clinical mission of Riggs while linking the Center to the rapidly changing external world. This has been accomplished through creating a spectrum of programs at Riggs that extend the opportunity for intensive psychotherapy while maximizing patients resources. In addition, Dr. Shapiro helped develop the Erik H. Erikson Institute for Education and Research as a vehicle for applying the clinical insights developed at Riggs to larger social issues.