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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.
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Upcoming Virtual Live Events
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Developing a Stable Internal Home: Implications for Analytic Technique, Adult Development, and Geographic Relocations - Aisha Abbasi, MD (Live) | 09/13/2024 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm 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 |
The Mourning Process and Its Importance in Mental Illness: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychiatric Diagnosis and Classification - Dr. Rachel... | 10/11/2024 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EDT |
Conspiracies? The "Paranoid Style” Revisited, in Psychoanalytic Thought, History, and Political Life - Daniel Pick, PhD (Live) | 10/18/2024 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EDT |
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 |
Recent courses
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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David Celani, PhD, presents an overview of Fairbairn's model with an emphasis on three aspects of his model.
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Therapies of depth, insight, and relationship have been missing from, if not pushed out of, the public conversation on mental health treatment.
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This presentation applies resilience and relationship as a framework for practice. Stages of recovery are discussed for a patient with complex trauma.
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Addiction to alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, benzodiazepines, cannabis, and opioids can be devastating, as we all know.
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The presentation will provide an introduction to the concept of epistemic trust and its recent application to developmental psychopathology.
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