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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
Therapeutic Assessment: Using Psychological Testing as Brief Therapy - Stephen E. Finn, PhD (Webinar live online) 12/19/2025 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST
The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century - Dagmar Herzog, PhD (Webinar live on-line) 01/09/2026 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm 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
Becoming Raced-Psychic Consequences of Transgenerational Racial Trauma - Dionne R. Powell, MD (Webinar live online) (Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture) 04/10/2026 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EDT
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Recent courses

  • Enduring
Advancing Access: Parity and Payment for Quality Mental Healthcare (Recorded)
  • Systems of Care
The Austen Riggs Center presents the work of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN). This moderated panel discussion focuses on helping therapists address insurance denials, violations of parity,
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    • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.50 APA
    • 1.50 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.50 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Alliance-Based Intervention for Suicide - Eric M. Plakun, MD, DLFAPA, FACPsych (Recorded)
In the last 25 years suicide has increased by 30% in the US, while a growing crisis in mental health is recognized in the post-pandemic world.
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    • 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
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
“Where It Was, There I Must Come to Be:” A Psychoanalytic Take on Gender Today - Hannah Wallerstein, PhD (Recorded)
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
In the last two decades gender has exploded as a concept—new gender identifications have proliferated, as have new forms of embodiment and possible technological interventions.
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Recovering a Self in Psychosis - Larry Davidson PhD (Recorded)
  • Biopsychosocial
This presentation, entitled “Recovering a Self in Psychosis,” is based on the findings of over 30 years of qualitative studies involving persons with serious mental illnesses who have described the
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Nursing
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Dynamics of Race, Culture, and Sociopolitical Context in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy - Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD (Recorded)
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
This presentation will provide a theoretical framework that integrates cultural competence as a core emphasis of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
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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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