Edward R. Shapiro

Ed Shapiro was born in 1941 in Boston to second generation Russian-Jewish parents. He majored in Russian language and literature at Yale traveling to the Soviet Union with the Yale Russian Chorus. At Stanford University, he received a masters degree in Anthropology, studying native medicine in Tobago, West Indies. With grants from the US Public Health Service, he worked with migrant workers in California and went to Israel to study suicide in Palestinian villages after the 7-day war before graduating from Harvard Medical School. As a Clinical Associate at the National Institute of Mental Health, he studied families and adolescents and returned to Boston to direct the Adolescent and Family Treatment and Study Center at McLean Hospital. From 1991-2011, he was the medical director/CEO of Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. His first book, "Lost in Familiar Places: Creating New Connections between the Individual and Society" was co-written with the Dean of Westminster Abbey, Wesley Carr. His recent book, "Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self-Reflective Institutions, Leaders and Citizens" outlines a path from family membership to taking up a citizen role. He has won numerous awards for his teaching, research, and writing and is Clinical Professor at the Yale Child Study Center. In 2007, he was named Outstanding Psychiatrist for Advancement of the Profession by the Massachusetts Psychiatric Association. (www.EdwardRShapiro.com)