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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.
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Upcoming Virtual Live Events
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The Place From Which We Know: a Response to the “Ontological” Turn in Psychoanalysis - Hannah Wallerstein, PhD, FABP (Live Webinar) | 05/16/2025 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EDT |
Interpersonal Trauma and the Developmental Roots of Personality Disorders - Clara Mucci, PhD (Live Webinar) | 04/25/2025 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EDT |
The Innate Capacity for Representing Subjective Experience: The Infant’s Mind is Neither Primitive nor Pre-representational - Anne Erreich, PhD (Live... | 04/25/2025 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EDT |
20th Annual Austen Riggs College Counseling Conference: Peer Support, Community, and Belonging (Live Webinar) | 04/14/2025 - 9:00am to 12:00pm EDT |
Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Skin Patient - Jorge Claudio Ulnik, MD, PhD (Live Webinar) | 03/14/2025 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EDT |
Recent courses
How does moral injury occur and what steps can we take to understand and repair the damage it does to individuals and institutions?
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The Austen Riggs Center presents the work of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN). This moderated panel discussion focuses on helping therapists address insurance denials, violations of parity,
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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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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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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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