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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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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
Working Clinically with Overwhelm: The Cost and Growth-Inducing Possibilities of Undoing the Self - Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD (Webinar live online) 03/13/2026 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EDT
The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century - Dagmar Herzog, PhD (Webinar live on-line) 01/09/2026 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EST
Therapeutic Assessment: Using Psychological Testing as Brief Therapy - Stephen E. Finn, PhD (Webinar live online) 12/19/2025 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST
Sun, Soil and Rain: Research on Patient Growth in Psychotherapy - Brin Grenyer, PhD (Webinar live online) (Sheila Hafter Gray Memorial Lecture) 12/05/2025 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EST
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Recent courses

  • Enduring
Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology - David Mintz, MD (Recorded)
Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology is a psychodynamically-informed, patient-centered approach to psychiatric patients that explicitly acknowledges and addr
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
The Frame in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Tasks, Roles, and Boundaries - Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP (Recorded)
In psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the frame of the treatment, provides a setting and container that is negotiated at the outset of treatment and is aimed at facilitating therapeutic engagement that
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Subjectivity in Radical Ethics - Donna Orange, PhD, PsyD (Recorded)
Radical ethics, a philosophical position recognizing the priority of the other over the ego, specifically concerns the other’s suffering.
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    • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.50 Risk Management Study
    • 1.50 APA
    • 1.50 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.50 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
2023 Fall Conference Part 4: Pharmacotherapy as a Psychotherapeutic Focus (Recorded)
  • Conference
Part 4 of a 4-part series featuring recordings from the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center's 2023 Virtual Fall Conference: Losing Our Mind and Finding It: Re-Integrat
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    • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 2.00 APA
    • 2.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 2.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
2023 Fall Conference Part 3: Psychodynamic Technique in Pharmacotherapy (Recorded)
Part 3 of a 4-part series featuring recordings from the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center's 2023 Virtual Fall Conference: Losing Our Mind and Finding It: Re-Integrat
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    • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 2.00 APA
    • 2.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 2.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
2023 Fall Conference Part 2: Meaning and Medication (Recorded)
Part 2 of a 4-part series featuring recordings from the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center's 2023 Virtual Fall Conference: Losing Our Mind and Finding It: Re-Integrat
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    • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 2.00 APA
    • 2.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 2.00 Contact Hours/ Participation

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