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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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Upcoming Virtual Live Events
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2025 Riggs-Yale Virtual Conference on Parenting and Partnerships: Substance Use and Behavioral Addiction in Childhood and Adolescence (Live Webinar) | 02/28/2025 - 10:30am to 3:30pm EST |
Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Skin Patient - Jorge Claudio Ulnik, MD, PhD (Live Webinar) | 03/14/2025 - 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 |
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 |
Interpersonal Trauma and the Developmental Roots of Personality Disorders - Clara Mucci, PhD (Live Webinar) | 04/25/2025 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EDT |
Recent courses
2024-25 Grand Round SeriesContinuing Education information to follow
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Since 2020, “The Summer of Racial Reckoning,” professionals across fields and industries began to pay laser-like attention to issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice.
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The adoption and mental health fields have viewed adoption as being only about children. Adopted adolescents are a more recent afterthought, with adults nowhere on the radar.
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2024 Grand Round Series
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Experiences of feeling haunted and of being in the presence of ghosts are prominent in narratives of patients/people of color in the United States and of mixed-race identity.
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The presentation begins with an introduction by Michael Garrett, MD, who briefly summarizes the recent renewed interest in trauma-informed psychotherapeutic treatments for psychotic conditions.
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