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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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The Place From Which We Know: a Response to the “Ontological” Turn in Psychoanalysis - Hannah Wallerstein, PhD, FABP (Live) | 05/16/2025 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EDT |
Interpersonal Trauma and the Developmental Roots of Personality Disorders - Clara Mucci, PhD (Live) | 04/25/2025 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EDT |
Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm’s Fight Against Fascism and Racism - Roger Frie, PhD, PsyD, RPsych (Live) | 01/24/2025 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EST |
Roundtable #6: Addressing the Mental Health Crisis in the Second Half of Life - Moderated by Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP (Live) | 12/07/2024 - 11:00am to 12:30pm EST |
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
The presentation is based on the recently published book entitled Toward a Unified Psychoanalytic Theory: Foundation in a Revised and Expanded Ego Psychology.
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Psychoanalytic therapy is an evidence-based treatment.
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Race as a lens through which we achieve psychoanalytic understanding is not universally valued or adopted in institutional psychoanalysis.
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This presentation will identify a series of common, clinical training dilemmas associated with race-based bias, discrimination, hatred, and prejudice.
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In this lecture Neil Altman, PhD, will look at race and the critical role it plays in society and in clinical practice.
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David Levit, PhD, ABPP, SEP, speaks about interweaving principles and approaches from a somatically based trauma therapy, Somatic Experiencing (SE), into psychoanalytic treatment.
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