MD from the University of Maryland Medical School

Psychiatric Residency and Geriatric Psychiatry fellowship training at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)

Erin Seery, MD, is a psychiatrist in the 

 for College Students and Emerging Adults in Massachusetts 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, 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.

Following her psychoanalytic fellowship, Dr. Seery joined the faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina. She practices in a variety of settings from the adult and child psychiatric emergency rooms to supervising the outpatient senior resident clinic.She serves as the Associate Program Director and Associate Psychotherapy Director of the general psychiatry residency program. She has received numerous awards for her teaching of psychiatry trainees.

Dr. Seery is also involved in advocacy, recently named a Trustee with the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (AAPDPP) (2023-2026) and will be the incoming president of the South Carolina Psychiatric Association (2024-2025). She writes and presents on topics of Personality Based prescribing, psychotherapeutic interventions in acute settings, the use of countertransference in inpatient settings, and psychodynamic considerations of brain stimulation.

American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (AAPDPP) Trustee (2023-2026)

South Carolina Psychiatric Association President (2024-2025)

American Psychiatric Association (APA), Psychotherapy Caucus

South Carolina Psychiatric Association, Executive Council - Membership Chair

American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis

Online Intensive Outpatient Program

Erin Seery, MD

Online IOP Psychiatrist

, and colleagues published "Understanding an Overdose: Intention, Motivation, and Risk" in 

Attending to both the subjective and objective perspectives of an overdose can assist in identifying modifiable risk factors

Overdose-related intent and motivation may be targeted with treatment plans to reduce elevated risk states. Some patient-specific overdose risk factors are modifiable, such as managing mental health and other psychosocial issues, reducing access to lethal means, and promoting safe prescribing and medication administration practices. Other risk factors are either unmodifiable (e.g., personal history of overdose) or involve public health systems.

Professional Publications

In this paper, Erin Seery, MD, and her colleagues explore the importance of attending to both the subjective and objective perspectives of an overdose can assist in identifying modifiable risk factors.

Understanding an Overdose: Intention, Motivation, and Risk

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