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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
“A Fantasy I Didn’t Know I Had”: Sexual Fantasy as Turning-point in a Psychoanalytic Treatment - Derek Hook, PhD (Webinar live online) 01/16/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST
Mild Neurocognitive Disorder: Evaluation and Decision-Making at the Gateway to Dementia - James Ellison MD, MPH 01/23/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST
A Decolonial Approach to Case Formulation: Pragmatic Applications for Therapeutic and Political Action - Daniel José Gaztambide, PsyD (Webinar live... 02/06/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST
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
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
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Recent courses

  • Enduring
The Dimensions of Personality - John M. Oldham, MD (Recorded)
  • Biopsychosocial
This presentation will focus on the dimensional nature of personality, emphasizing a continuum model from personality styles to personality disorders.
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
When Social Privilege Favors the Patient - Malin Fors (Recorded)
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
This lecture will focus on the seldom-addressed therapeutic dyad in which social privilege favors the patient.
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
The Law Shall Touch You: Psychological Profiling, Race, and Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta - Lisa Barksdale-Shaw, JD, PhD (Recorded)
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
In this talk, Lisa Barksdale-Shaw, JD, PhD, confronts how the examination of early modern English renaissance characters in a sixteenth century drama recovers, remembers,
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
How Do We Think About Professional Ethics? - Stephanie Schechter, PsyD (Recorded)
  • Ethics
The tendency to avoid issues around professional ethics is common and multi-determined.  Codes of ethics are uniquely boring and hard to remember. Unconsciously, most of us carry shame about clinic
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 Risk Management Study
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Online live
Mild Neurocognitive Disorder: Evaluation and Decision-Making at the Gateway to Dementia - James Ellison MD, MPH
  • Grand Rounds
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
0
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Perfectionism: Conceptualization, Clinical Formulation, and Treatment - Paul Hewitt, PhD (Recorded)
  • Biopsychosocial
In this talk, Paul Hewitt, PhD, presents the conceptualization and some of the research and clinical work that he and his colleagues have undertaken over the past 30 year
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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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