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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 psychodynamic psychotherapy. 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
Developing a Stable Internal Home: Implications for Analytic Technique, Adult Development, and Geographic Relocations - Aisha Abbasi, MD (Live) 09/13/2024 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EDT
Roundtable #5 - Beyond Crisis: Identity, Connectedness, and Mental Health in Midlife - Moderated by Katie Lewis, PhD (Live) 09/14/2024 - 11:00am to 12:30pm EDT
The Mourning Process and Its Importance in Mental Illness: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychiatric Diagnosis and Classification - Dr. Rachel... 10/11/2024 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EDT
Conspiracies? The "Paranoid Style” Revisited, in Psychoanalytic Thought, History, and Political Life - Daniel Pick, PhD (Live) 10/18/2024 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EDT
Relating Racially: Shifting Between We, They, and I Senses of Self - Michelle Stephens, LP, PhD (Live) 12/06/2024 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Recent courses

  • 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
Teletherapy Of/In Crisis: COVID-19 One Year Out - Hannah Zeavin, PhD (Recorded)
  • Systems of Care
This talk explores the history of distance psychotherapy and psychoanalysis from Freud to the present.  Distance, separation, connection, and the virtual space are all re
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Resilience and Risk During COVID-19: Psychoanalytic and Empirical Perspectives - Katie Lewis, PhD (Recorded)
  • Biopsychosocial
The psychological and emotional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been highlighted as a major public health concern, with early epidemiological evidence suggesting increased rates of psychiatric
5
    • 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
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
The Psychology of Online Groups and Communities - Anita L. Blanchard, PhD (Recorded)
  • Biopsychosocial
  • Systems of Care
Researchers have studied online groups and communities since the 1990s.
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Nursing
    • 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

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