Online IOP for College Students and Emerging Adults in MA
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
2025 Fall Conference on Rebuilding Trust in Institutions.
Educational Events
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
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
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.
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.
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.