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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 and psychodynamic approaches to treatment . CME/CE certificates are provided upon completion. Credit is available for those with an MD, 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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Upcoming Virtual Live Events

Title Dates
Relating Racially: Shifting Between We, They, and I Senses of Self - Michelle Stephens, LP, PhD (Live Webinar) 12/06/2024 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EST
Roundtable #6: Addressing the Mental Health Crisis in the Second Half of Life - Moderated by Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP (Live Webinar) 12/07/2024 - 11:00am to 12:30pm EST
Considering Child Development in Adult Clinical Work - Theodore James Fallon, Jr., MD, MPH, FAACAP, FABP (Live Webinar) 12/20/2024 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST
Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm’s Fight Against Fascism and Racism - Roger Frie, PhD, PsyD, RPsych (Live Webinar) 01/24/2025 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EST
2025 Riggs-Yale Virtual Conference on Parenting and Partnerships: Substance Use and Behavioral Addiction in Childhood and Adolescence 02/28/2025 - 10:30am to 3:30pm EST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Recent courses

  • Enduring
Toward a Self-Directed Life: A Psychodynamic Systems Approach to Treatment of College Students - Spencer Biel, PsyD; Jacquelyn Harden, PsyD; and Eric...
Serious mental health struggles among college students are rising in the nation, increasing the need for access to treatment that can help them remain in school.
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Getting Unconscious Conflict to Work For, Rather than Against, Us: The Therapeutic Effects of Unconscious Exposure - Paul Siegel, PhD (Recorded)
  • Psychoanalysis
A longstanding clinical conviction is that people with anxiety disorders must directly confront their feared object or situation in order to reduce fear of it.
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Working with Fairbairn's Structural Model in the Clinical Interview - David Celani, PhD (Recorded)
  • Psychoanalysis
David Celani, PhD, presents an overview of Fairbairn's model with an emphasis on three aspects of his model.
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN) and Their Changing the Narrative About Therapy - Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA (Recorded)
  • Systems of Care
Therapies of depth, insight, and relationship have been missing from, if not pushed out of, the public conversation on mental health treatment.
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Relationship & Resilience: A Framework for Practice - Kate Wheeler PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN (Recorded)
  • Biopsychosocial
This presentation applies resilience and relationship as a framework for practice. Stages of recovery are discussed for a patient with complex trauma. 
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Technological Addictions: The New Frontier of Addiction Psychiatry - Petros Levounis, MD, MA (Recorded)
  • Biopsychosocial
Addiction to alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, benzodiazepines, cannabis, and opioids can be devastating, as we all know.
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation

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