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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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Passive Aggression: History, Theory, and Practice - Ben Kafka, PhD, LP (Webinar live online) 04/02/2027 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EDT
Interpretation and the Elaborative Function - Neal Vorus, PhD (Webinar live online) 01/08/2027 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EST
Mentalizing: Cause, Correlate and Mechanism of Change in Personality Pathology - Carla Sharp, PhD (Webinar live online) 11/20/2026 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EST
Enactments of Cultural and Professional Beliefs, Values, and Biases in Therapy: Negotiating Difference, Power, and the Therapeutic Relationship... 11/13/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST
A Disorder of Diffusion: Contemporary Perspectives on Borderline Personality Disorder - Alexander Kriss, PhD (Webinar live online) 10/30/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EDT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Recent courses

  • Online live
Psychological Assessment and Access: A Multidisciplinary Population Health Approach - Hadas Pade, PsyD (Webinar live online)
  • Grand Rounds
2026 Grand Rounds Series 
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Webinar live
Resolving Therapeutic Dilemmas in Suicidal Clients Using Principles of Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy - Robert J. Gregory, MD (Webinar live...
  • Grand Rounds
2026 Grand Rounds Series
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Online live
Links Between Childhood Trauma, Psychosis, the Bayesian Predictive Processing Model of Brain Function, Transference, and the Mind Conceived as a Self...
  • Grand Rounds
2026 Grand Rounds Series
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
  • Enduring
Where the Mind Suffers: Understanding Psychic Pain and Suicidal Crisis - Katie C. Lewis, PhD (Recorded self-study)
Psychic pain – often described as unbearable, overwhelming emotional suffering – has been increasingly recognized as a core contributor to suicide risk, yet its clinical contours and empirical sign
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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 Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century - Dagmar Herzog, PhD (Recorded self-study)
These days, the topic of intellectual disability seems frequently to function as a conversation stopper, and yet studying its history can teach us much we need to know about the seductive appeal of
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    • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.50 APA
    • 1.50 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.50 Contact Hours/ Participation
“A Fantasy I Didn’t Know I Had”: Sexual Fantasy as Turning-point in a Psychoanalytic Treatment - Derek Hook, PhD (Recorded self-study)
Obsessional neurotic analysands are notoriously good at neutralizing a psychoanalytic treatment.
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    • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    • 1.00 APA
    • 1.00 ASWB-ACE
    • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation

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