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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
How We Conceptualize Disability and Why it Matters Clinically - Rhoda Olkin, PhD (Webinar live online) 08/07/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EDT
Out of Sight, Still in Mind: Intersession Processes and Suicidal Ideation in Psychodynamic Treatment - Mareike Ernst, PhD (Webinar live online) 09/04/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EDT
Between Silence and Words, Trauma’s Haunting Legacy - Jill Salberg, PhD (Webinar live online) 09/18/2026 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EDT
2026 Fall Conference - Hope in Hard Times: Building Community (Webinar live online or in-person) 10/02/2026 - 6:00pm EDT to 10/03/2026 - 4:00pm EDT
Love with the Death Drive - Todd McGowan, PhD (Webinar live online) 10/23/2026 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EDT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Recent courses

  • Online live
Links Between Childhood Trauma, Psychosis, the Bayesian Predictive Processing Model of Brain Function, Transference, and the Mind Conceived as a Self...
  • Grand Rounds
2026 Grand Rounds Series
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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 the Mind Suffers: Understanding Psychic Pain and Suicidal Crisis - Katie C. Lewis, PhD (Recorded self-study)
Psychic pain – often described as unbearable, overwhelming emotional suffering – has been increasingly recognized as a core contributor to suicide risk, yet its clinical contours and empirical sign
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century - Dagmar Herzog, PhD (Recorded self-study)
These days, the topic of intellectual disability seems frequently to function as a conversation stopper, and yet studying its history can teach us much we need to know about the seductive appeal of
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    • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.50 APA
    • 1.50 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.50 Contact Hours/ Participation
“A Fantasy I Didn’t Know I Had”: Sexual Fantasy as Turning-point in a Psychoanalytic Treatment - Derek Hook, PhD (Recorded self-study)
Obsessional neurotic analysands are notoriously good at neutralizing a 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
A Decolonial Approach to Case Formulation: Pragmatic Applications for Therapeutic and Political Action - Daniel José Gaztambide, PsyD (Recorded self-...
This presentation uses a decolonial lens to review current thinking in psychoanalytic case formulation that addresses a) intrapsychic functioning (Davanloo’s feeling-anxiety-defense model), b) inte
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Mild Neurocognitive Disorder: Evaluation and Decision-Making at the Gateway to Dementia - James Ellison MD, MPH (Recorded self-study)
Mild Cognitive Impairment, officially known as Mild Neurocognitive Disorder, describes the acquired changes in mental functioning that constitute the border land between normal cognitive aging and
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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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