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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

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Did Strachey Falsely Scientize Freud? with Professor Mark Solms, Keynote of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group (Webinar live... 06/20/2025 - 8:00pm to 10:00pm EDT
Meaning-Based Harm from Medications: Clinical and Ethical Implications - David Mintz, MD (Webinar live online) 07/25/2025 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EDT
Rebuilding Trust in Institutions: Bridging Generational Insights (Webinar live online) 09/19/2025 - 6:30pm EDT to 09/20/2025 - 4:30pm EDT
The Paternal Function in Anorexia Nervosa - Tom Wooldridge, PsyD, ABPP, FIPA, CEDS-C (Webinar live online) 09/12/2025 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EDT
Treating Psychosis Today: A Lacanian Perspective - Stijn Vanheule, PhD (Webinar live online) 06/13/2025 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EDT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Recent courses

  • Enduring
Technological Addictions: The New Frontier of Addiction Psychiatry - Petros Levounis, MD, MA (Recorded)
  • Biopsychosocial
Addiction to alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, benzodiazepines, cannabis, and opioids can be devastating, as we all know.
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Epistemic Trust and Its Implications for Psychopathology - Chloe Campbell, PhD (Recorded)
  • Biopsychosocial
The presentation will provide an introduction to the concept of epistemic trust and its recent application to developmental psychopathology.
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Toward a Unified Psychoanalytic Theory: Foundation in a Revised and Expanded Ego Psychology - Morris N. Eagle, PhD (Recorded)
  • Psychoanalysis
The presentation is based on the recently published book entitled Toward a Unified Psychoanalytic Theory: Foundation in a Revised and Expanded Ego Psychology.
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
The Efficacy of Psychoanalytic Therapy: The Talking Cure in the Era of Evidence-Based Practice - Jonathan Shedler, PhD (Recorded)
  • Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic therapy is an evidence-based treatment.
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
2022 Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture - "Journeying Toward Racial Equity in North American Psychoanalysis" - Dorothy Evans Holmes, PhD, ABPP...
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Race as a lens through which we achieve psychoanalytic understanding is not universally valued or adopted in institutional psychoanalysis.
0
    • 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
4.5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation

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