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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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| Therapeutic Assessment: Using Psychological Testing as Brief Therapy - Stephen E. Finn, PhD (Webinar live online) | 12/19/2025 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST |
| IOP Seminar - Psychodynamic Case Formulation - Instructor Mark Elliot, M.D. | 12/01/2025 - 5:00pm EST to 01/05/2026 - 6:00pm EST |
| The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century - Dagmar Herzog, PhD (Webinar live on-line) | 01/09/2026 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm EST |
| “A Fantasy I Didn’t Know I Had”: Sexual Fantasy as Turning-point in a Psychoanalytic Treatment - Derek Hook, PhD (Webinar live online) | 01/16/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST |
| A Decolonial Approach to Case Formulation: Pragmatic Applications for Therapeutic and Political Action - Daniel José Gaztambide, PsyD (Webinar live... | 02/06/2026 - 12:50pm to 1:50pm EST |
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Psychic pain –
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This presentation will use a decolonial lens to review current thinking in psychoanalytic case formulation that addresses a) intrapsychic functioning (Davanloo’s feeling-anxiety-defense model), b)
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Sexuality studies and queer theory have long drawn from psychoanalysis in centralizing sexuality within human experience.
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The role of the father, both flesh-and-blood and symbolic, is explored in a subset of families of patients with anorexia nervosa.
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