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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
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
Property and Psychoanalysis - Mitchell Wilson, MD (Recorded)
  • Psychoanalysis
In this talk, Mitchell Wilson, MD, considers the concept and economic fact of property in relation to the training and practice of psychoanalysts.
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Psychotherapy Supervision: Old Controversies and New Dilemmas - Nancy McWilliams, PhD (Recorded)
  • Psychoanalysis
This talk contextualizes clinical supervision historically, exploring some less frequently measured areas of supervisory competence.
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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.
0
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Climate Justice and Psychotherapeutics - Donna Orange, PhD
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Despite a tendency to avoid the warnings, times of crisis summon clinicians to emerge from comfortable consulting rooms.  Daily engaged with human suffering, they now face the inextricably bound to
0
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Empathy and Understanding: In History, Psychotherapy, and Our Contemporary World - Thomas Kohut, PhD (Recorded)
  • Biopsychosocial
This forum uses Thomas Kohut’s recent book, Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past (Routledge, 2020), as a springboard for an interdisciplinary discussion of empathy an
4.5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation

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