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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 and psychodynamic approaches to treatment . 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
Transforming Suicide Risk Assessment - Katie C. Lewis, PhD (Live) 11/15/2024 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST
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
Roundtable #6: Addressing the Mental Health Crisis in the Second Half of Life - Moderated by Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP (Live) 12/07/2024 - 11:00am to 12:30pm EST
Considering Child Development in Adult Clinical Work - Theodore James Fallon, Jr., MD, MPH, FAACAP, FABP (Live) 12/20/2024 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST
Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm’s Fight Against Fascism and Racism - Roger Frie, PhD, PsyD, RPsych (Live) 01/24/2025 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Recent courses

  • Enduring
The Complex Psychology of Being Adopted: What Clinicians Need to Know - Linda Mayers, PhD, and Doris Bertocci, LCSW (Recorded)
The adoption and mental health fields have viewed adoption as being only about children. Adopted adolescents are a more recent afterthought, with adults nowhere on the radar.
3
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Online live
  • Webinar live
Paving with Good Intentions: A Story of Psychotherapy Research - Matthew Baity, PhD, ABPP (Live)
  • Grand Rounds
2024 Grand Round Series 
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
When Racialized Ghosts Refuse to Become Ancestors: Tasting the “Blood of Recognition” in Racial Melancholia and Mixed-Race Identities - Dhwani Shah,...
Experiences of feeling haunted and of being in the presence of ghosts are prominent in narratives of patients/people of color in the United States and of mixed-race identity.
0
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Training Early-Career Psychiatrists to Listen to Psychotic Patients with an Intent to Understand the Meaning of Psychotic Symptoms - Michael Garrett...
The presentation begins with an introduction by Michael Garrett, MD, who briefly summarizes the recent renewed interest in trauma-informed psychotherapeutic treatments for psychotic conditions.
0
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Working with the Bodily Unconscious: Somatic Narration as a Method to Anchor the Working-Through in the Body-Self - Dr. Sebastian Leikert (Recorded)
Severely disturbed patients often show bodily symptoms relating to unrepresented states.
0
    • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.50 APA
    • 1.50 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.50 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Webinar live
The Relational System of the Traumatizing Narcissist - Daniel Shaw, LCSW (Live)
  • Grand Rounds
2024 Grand Rounds Series
3.75
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation

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