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Contact Admissions. Intensive Outpatient Program. Continuing Education. Continuing Education Everyone should see this documentary. The prize is juried by a committee of Riggs clinicians and Trustees who considered more than submissions in Untilevery gay person—no matter how well-adjusted—was automatically classified as mentally ill and in need of a cure.

The documentary CURED takes viewers inside the campaign that led the American Psychiatric Association to remove the diagnosis of homosexuality from its manual of mental disorders in Combining eyewitness testimony with newly unearthed archival footage, the film reveals how a small group of activists, psychiatrists, and their allies achieved this unexpected victory.

Through an ambitious outreach and engagement campaign, the film is reaching thousands of viewers in communities and classrooms. A national tour of medical schools is under way, and a curriculum for use in high school history classes is being developed in partnership with History UnErased.

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The Austen Riggs Center is a leading psychiatric hospital and residential treatment program that has been serving adults since its founding in Within an open setting, patients participate in an intensive treatment milieu that emphasizes respectful engagement. Individual psychodynamic psychotherapy is provided four times a week by doctors on staff.

The Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center studies individuals in their social contexts through research, training, education, and outreach programs in the local community and beyond. Admission Calls: All Other Calls: Treatment Admission About Education and Research.