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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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
This talk explores the history of distance psychotherapy and psychoanalysis from Freud to the present. Distance, separation, connection, and the virtual space are all re
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The psychological and emotional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been highlighted as a major public health concern, with early epidemiological evidence suggesting increased rates of psychiatric
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In this talk, Paul Hewitt, PhD, presents the conceptualization and some of the research and clinical work that he and his colleagues have undertaken over the past 30 year
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Researchers have studied online groups and communities since the 1990s.
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The tendency to avoid issues around professional ethics is common and multi-determined. Codes of ethics are uniquely boring and hard to remember. Unconsciously, most of us carry shame about clinic
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This forum uses Thomas Kohut’s recent book, Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past (Routledge, 2020), as a springboard for an interdisciplinary discussion of empathy an
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