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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
Enactments of Cultural and Professional Beliefs, Values, and Biases in Therapy: Negotiating Difference, Power, and the Therapeutic Relationship... 11/13/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST
Mentalizing: Cause, Correlate and Mechanism of Change in Personality Pathology - Carla Sharp, PhD (Webinar live online) 11/20/2026 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EST
Empire of Madness: Reimagining Medicine's Approach to Mental Illness - Khameer Kidia, MD (Webinar live online) 12/04/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST
Dating Violence Among Emerging Adults - Claire Burke Draucker, PhD, RN, FAAN (Webinar live online) 12/11/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST
Interpretation and the Elaborative Function - Neal Vorus, PhD (Webinar live online) 01/08/2027 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Recent courses

  • Enduring
The Innate Capacity for Representing Subjective Experience: The Infant’s Mind is Neither Primitive nor Pre-representational - Anne Erreich, PhD (...
The author cites the prominence of theories which locate serious adult psychopathology in the pre-verbal infant’s inability to formulate or represent traumatic experience.
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Interpersonal Trauma and the Developmental Roots of Personality Disorders - Clara Mucci, PhD (Recorded self study)
In this presentation Clara Mucci, PhD, presents the three levels of interpersonal traumatizations with all the consequences at the level of attachment styles, interpersonal neurobiology, and affect
5
    • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.50 APA
    • 1.50 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.50 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Substance Use and Behavioral Addiction in Childhood and Adolescence (Recorded self study)
2025 Riggs-Yale Virtual Conference on Parenting and Partnerships
5
    • 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 4.00 APA
    • 4.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 4.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Skin Patient - Jorge Claudio Ulnik, MD, PhD (Recorded self study)
  • Biopsychosocial
  • Psychoanalysis
There is a relationship between what the psychoanalyst hears and what the dermatologist sees.
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Techniques in the Psychotherapy for Psychosis (Course 2 of 2) - Jeremy Ridenour, PsyD, ABPP (Recorded self study)
Course 2 of 2 Course 1: Core Emotions in Psychosis
5
    • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 2.00 APA
    • 2.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 2.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Core Emotions in Psychosis (Course 1 of 2) - Jeremy Ridenour, PsyD, ABPP (Recorded self study)
Course 1 of 2 Course 2: Techniques in the Psychotherapy for Psychosis
3.666665
    • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 2.00 APA
    • 2.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 2.00 Contact Hours/ Participation

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