Online IOP for College Students and Emerging Adults in MA

Events

The Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy makes the Austen Riggs Center a place of learning as well as healing. We invite you to join us at academic conferences, lectures, workshops, and other educational events.

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Alumni Events

2025 Austen Riggs Alumni Reunion

August 1, 2025 - August 3, 2025

Former patients, staff, and Board members are invited to the 2025 Austen Riggs Alumni Reunion to reconnect with old friends, make new connections, and celebrate the impact of our shared experiences.

Special Events

Awake in the Dark

July 15, 2025

Please join us for an in-person only screening of a work in progress, the filmed stage performance of the new play by Shira Nayman, PsyD, Awake in the Dark, that examines intergenerational trauma, Jewish identity, and the enduring bonds between mothers and daughters.

Educational Events

Navigating Insurance Issues as a Depth Therapist

July 18, 2025

Kate Gallagher, PhD, participates in this webinar that provides participants with the skills needed to navigate working with insurance companies while still providing impactful depth therapy.

Educational Events

Meaning-Based Harm from Medications: Clinical and Ethical Implications

July 25, 2025

David Mintz, MD, reviews the evidence base for harmful meaning effects in psychiatry and some of the common dynamics by which the meanings of medication cause harm.

Alumni Events

2025 Austen Riggs Alumni Reunion

August 1, 2025

Former patients, staff, and Board members are invited to the 2025 Austen Riggs Alumni Reunion to reconnect with old friends, make new connections, and celebrate the impact of our shared experiences.

Educational Events

The Paternal Function in Anorexia Nervosa

September 12, 2025

Tom Wooldridge, PsyD, ABPP, FIPA, CEDS-C, explores the role of the father, both flesh-and-blood and symbolic, in a subset of families of patients with anorexia nervosa.

Conferences

Rebuilding Trust in Institutions: Bridging Intergenerational Insights

September 19, 2025

2025 Fall Conference on Rebuilding Trust in Institutions.

Educational Events

The AI Pharmakon in Psychoanalytic Care: Ambivalence, Augmentation, and Psychoanalytic Futures

October 24, 2025

Todd Essig, PhD, explores the clinical state of play amid the rapidly accelerating developments with AI, with a focus on how psychoanalytic sensibilities can help us think, feel, and act in response.

Educational Events

Queer Relationality

November 14, 2025

Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP, draws on queer theory’s expansive tradition to introduce the concept of queer relationality which aims to rethink relationality with enlarged sexuality at its center.

Educational Events

Sun, Soil and Rain: Research on Patient Growth in Psychotherapy

December 5, 2025

Brin Grenyer, PhD, overviews 30 years of studies from his and other research groups that includes studies of transference, attachment, mastery of self-understanding and self-control, and emotional and cognitive change.

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Past Presentations

In addition to wide ranges of published articles, interviews, and other materials featuring the work of Riggs clinicians, our Resource Center houses video excerpts and select full presentations from past academic conferences and educational events.

CE/CME Courses

An important part of the Erikson Institute's educational mission is providing online continuing education and continuing medical education courses with an emphasis on psychodynamic psychotherapy. Certificates and CE/CME credits are availabile for those with an MD, PhD, or PsyD, and for social workers.

Contact Us for More

For answers to any questions about events, conferences, or CME courses, please feel free to contact us.