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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

Working Clinically with Overwhelm: The Cost and Growth-Inducing Possibilities of Undoing the Self - Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD (Webinar live online)
2025-26 Friday Night Guest Lecture Series Continuing Education information to follow
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The Pseudo-Self - Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP (Webinar live online)
2025-26 Friday Night Guest Lecture Series 
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    • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.50 APA
    • 1.50 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.50 Contact Hours/ Participation
The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century - Dagmar Herzog, PhD (Webinar live on-line)
2025-26 Friday Night Guest Lecture Series
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    • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.50 APA
    • 1.50 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.50 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Online live
Becoming Raced-Psychic Consequences of Transgenerational Racial Trauma - Dionne R. Powell, MD (Webinar live online) (Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture)
  • Friday Night Guest Lecture Series
2025-26 Friday Night Guest Lecture Series - Y
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    • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.50 APA
    • 1.50 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.50 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
The Place from Which We Know: A Response to the “Ontological” Turn in Psychoanalysis - Hannah Wallerstein, PhD, FABP (Recorded self-study)
2025 Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture
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    • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.50 APA
    • 1.50 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.50 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy - Fredric Busch, MD (Recorded self-study)
Problem Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is a modified psychoanalytic treatment approach that addresses patient’s specific problems, including  symptoms, personality issues, relationship struggl
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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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