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The Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center is pleased to provide online continuing education (CE) / continuing medical education (CME). CE/CME credit is provided through video/audio courses with an emphasis on biopsychosocial, psychodynamic and systems approaches to treatment. CME/CE certificates are provided upon completion. Credit is available for those with an MD, DO, PhD, PsyD, and social workers at this time. All mental health professionals and students are welcome to experience course offerings and can be provided with a certificate of completion. As a registered member of this educational platform, your courses and transcripts are available on demand. REGISTER to have access to courses. Check back to see new course offerings and thank you for browsing.

We are committed to making quality, free psychodynamic continuing education available as part of our mission despite the considerable costs. If you enjoy our free educational programming and have the means, please consider making a donation. 

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To learn more about the Austen Riggs Center, contact Director of Referral Relations Dave Werbeck:

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Upcoming Virtual Live Events

Title Dates
Where the Mind Suffers: Understanding Psychic Pain and Suicidal Crisis - Katie C. Lewis, PhD (Webinar live online) 02/27/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST
Ethical and Responsible use of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in Mental Health Care - Catherine L. Grus, PhD (Webinar live online) 03/06/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST
Working Clinically with Overwhelm: The Cost and Growth-Inducing Possibilities of Undoing the Self - Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD (Webinar live online) 03/13/2026 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EDT
Mentalizing Across Contexts (Webinar live online) 03/20/2026 - 10:00am to 4:00pm EDT
Becoming Raced-Psychic Consequences of Transgenerational Racial Trauma - Dionne R. Powell, MD (Webinar live online) (Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture) 04/10/2026 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EDT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Recent courses

“A Fantasy I Didn’t Know I Had”: Sexual Fantasy as Turning-point in a Psychoanalytic Treatment - Derek Hook, PhD (Recorded self-study)
Obsessional neurotic analysands are notoriously good at neutralizing a psychoanalytic treatment.
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Mild Neurocognitive Disorder: Evaluation and Decision-Making at the Gateway to Dementia - James Ellison MD, MPH (Recorded self-study)
Mild Cognitive Impairment, officially known as Mild Neurocognitive Disorder, describes the acquired changes in mental functioning that constitute the border land between normal cognitive aging and
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Sun, Soil and Rain: Research on Patient Growth in Psychotherapy - Brin Grenyer, PhD (Recorded self study)
The mechanisms of patient change have been described in detail by prominent psychoanalytic thinkers over the last 130 years.
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    • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.50 APA
    • 1.50 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.50 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Online live
Mentalizing Across Contexts (Webinar live online)
  • Conference
A virtual conference presented by the Erikson Institute
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    • 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 5.00 APA
    • 5.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 5.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Somatic Experiencing: Enhancing Psychoanalytic Holding for Trauma and Catastrophic Dissociation–Contending with the Flood and the Fog with David...
  • Psychoanalysis
David Levit, PhD, ABPP, SEP, speaks about interweaving principles and approaches from a somatically based trauma therapy, Somatic Experiencing (SE), into psychoanalytic treatment.
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives - Neil Altman, PhD (Recorded)
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
In this lecture Neil Altman, PhD, will look at race and the critical role it plays in society and in clinical practice.
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation

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