IOP Seminar 2026 - Key Concepts in Psychodynamic Theory, Instructor: Erin Seery, MD
This seminar will introduce psychodynamic theory, focusing on key concepts such as unconscious processes, transference and countertransference, defense mechanisms, and the role of early relational patterns in shaping psychological functioning. Participants will explore these concepts through readings, discussion, and clinical examples, emphasizing their application in therapeutic settings.
Target Audience
______ Introductory ____x__ Intermediate ______ Advanced
Learning Objectives
Explain the clinical relevance of unconscious processes in shaping personality structure and psychological functioning
Analyze structural theory (ego, id, superego) and common ego defense mechanisms within a clinical framework
Compare classical psychoanalytic perspectives with object relations theory regarding how early relational patterns influence internal representations and self-development
Demonstrate an understanding of the dynamics of transference and countertransference and their application in therapeutic settings
Assess identity formation and psychological development in emerging adults by integrating Eriksonian developmental perspective
Course summary
- 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

ACCME - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for a maximum of 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 6.00 ASWB-ACE
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this. Social workers completing this will receive 6.00 continuing education credit(s).Austen Riggs Center, Inc is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0843.
Erin Seery, MD, is a psychiatrist in the Online Intensive Outpatient Program for College Students and Emerging Adults in Massachusetts and Vermont at the Austen Riggs Center. Dr. Seery serves as the psychiatry consultant within the IOP, but also intermittently provides psychotherapy and group therapy. She is a board-certified psychiatrist with active medical licenses in Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, and South Carolina. She is committed to understanding patients across the lifespan and the unique challenges at particular developmental timepoints. She completed general psychiatry residency and a geriatric psychiatry fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina, and then pursued a 4-year advanced psychoanalytic fellowship at the Austen Riggs Center residential program where she worked with emerging adults and those in other life stages in intensive psychodynamic individual psychotherapy, group and family therapy modalities and in concert with psychiatric prescribing.
Austen Riggs Center Inc. adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. All those at Austen Riggs Center involved in the planning of this activity, including the presenter(s) listed above, report they have no relevant financial relationships with an ineligible company*.
The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the presenter(s) and do not necessarily represent the official policy or position of the Austen Riggs Center.
* An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Available Credit
- 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

ACCME - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for a maximum of 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 6.00 ASWB-ACE
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this. Social workers completing this will receive 6.00 continuing education credit(s).Austen Riggs Center, Inc is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0843.

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