Welcome

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. 

Donate

To learn more about the Austen Riggs Center, contact Director of Referral Relations Dave Werbeck:

Contact Dave Werbeck

Upcoming Virtual Live Events

Title Dates
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
Race, Fear, and the American Way - Lisa L. Moore, PhD, LICSW (Webinar live online) 04/24/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EDT
Links Between Childhood Trauma, Psychosis, the Bayesian Predictive Processing Model of Brain Function, Transference, and the Mind Conceived as a Self... 07/17/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EDT
Resolving Therapeutic Dilemmas in Suicidal Clients Using Principles of Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy - Robert J. Gregory, MD (Webinar live... 07/24/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EDT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Recent courses

  • Enduring
Revisioning Ethics: An Anti-Oppressive Framework for Practice - Cathleen M. Morey, PhD, LICSW (Recorded self study)
This ethics course is approved for AMA PRA Credit™ risk management study
0
    • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 2.00 APA
    • 2.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 2.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Trauma, Identity, and Development - Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP (Recorded Self Study)
The most destructive force waylaying development in children comes from failures in mourning that leave parents unreliably available to attend to the needs of the child, the type of small-t trauma
0
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Systems Psychodynamics - Edward Shapiro, MD (Recorded self study)
  • Psychoanalysis
This seminar will explore how institutions function as living emotional systems, shaped by unconscious dynamics, role expectations, and shared purpose.
5
    • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 2.00 APA
    • 2.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 2.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Meaning-Based Harm from Medications: Clinical and Ethical Implications - David Mintz, MD (Recorded self study)
This ethics course is approved for AMA PRA Credit™ risk management study
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Online live
Therapeutic Assessment: Using Psychological Testing as Brief Therapy - Stephen E. Finn, PhD (Webinar live online)
  • Grand Rounds
2025 Grand Rounds Series 
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Webinar live
Working with Infertility Patients through a Psychoanalytic Lens - Golzar Naghshineh, MS, LP, CGP, and Nancy Kaufman, LCSW, LP (Webinar live online)
  • Grand Rounds
2025 Grand Rounds Series 
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation

Pages