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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 psychodynamic psychotherapy. 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
The Relational System of the Traumatizing Narcissist - Daniel Shaw, LCSW (Live) 05/10/2024 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EDT
Roundtable #3 - Loneliness, Belonging, and the Mental Health Crisis in School-Aged Children - Moderated by Dan Knauss, PsyD, ABPP (Live) 06/08/2024 - 11:00am to 12:30pm EDT
The Two Freuds: Implications for Conceptions of the Mind, of Psychopathology, and Approach to Treatment - Morris Eagle, PhD, ABPP (Live) 06/28/2024 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EDT
Roundtable #4 - Loneliness and Belonging in Emerging Adulthood - Moderated by Spencer Biel, PsyD (Live) 08/03/2024 - 11:00am to 12:30pm EDT
Roundtable #5 - Beyond Crisis: Identity, Connectedness, and Mental Health in Midlife - Moderated by Katie Lewis, PhD (Live) 09/14/2024 - 11:00am to 12:30pm EDT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Recent courses

  • Enduring
Alliance-Based Intervention for Suicide - Eric M. Plakun, MD, DLFAPA, FACPsych (Recorded)
In the last 25 years suicide has increased by 30% in the US, while a growing crisis in mental health is recognized in the post-pandemic world.
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Toward a Self-Directed Life: A Psychodynamic Systems Approach to Treatment of College Students - Spencer Biel, PsyD; Jacquelyn Harden, PsyD; and Eric...
Serious mental health struggles among college students are rising in the nation, increasing the need for access to treatment that can help them remain in school.
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Getting Unconscious Conflict to Work For, Rather than Against, Us: The Therapeutic Effects of Unconscious Exposure - Paul Siegel, PhD (Recorded)
  • Psychoanalysis
A longstanding clinical conviction is that people with anxiety disorders must directly confront their feared object or situation in order to reduce fear of it.
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Working with Fairbairn's Structural Model in the Clinical Interview - David Celani, PhD (Recorded)
  • Psychoanalysis
David Celani, PhD, presents an overview of Fairbairn's model with an emphasis on three aspects of his model.
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN) and Their Changing the Narrative About Therapy - Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA (Recorded)
  • Systems of Care
Therapies of depth, insight, and relationship have been missing from, if not pushed out of, the public conversation on mental health treatment.
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Relationship & Resilience: A Framework for Practice - Kate Wheeler PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN (Recorded)
  • Biopsychosocial
This presentation applies resilience and relationship as a framework for practice. Stages of recovery are discussed for a patient with complex trauma. 
5
    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation

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