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Eric Plakun, MD, Psychiatry, Stockbridge, MA, Austen Riggs Center

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Psychiatry • Stockbridge, MA

Forensic Psychiatry

Medical Director/CEO, Austen Riggs Center; APA Board of Trustees representing Area 1

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Education & Training

  • Austen Riggs Center
    Austen Riggs CenterResidency, Psychiatry, 1978 - 1982
  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital
    Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Mary Hitchcock Memorial HospitalResidency, Psychiatry, 1975 - 1978
  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital
    Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Mary Hitchcock Memorial HospitalInternship, Internal Medicine, 1972 - 1973
  • Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
    Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and SurgeonsClass of 1972
  • Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
    Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & SurgeonsM.D., Psychiatry, 1972

Certifications & Licensure

  • MA State Medical License
    MA State Medical License 1978 - 2025
  • VT State Medical License
    VT State Medical License 1973 - 2014
  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Member, Board of Trustees American Psychiatric Association
  • Outstanding Psychiatrist in Clinical Psychiatry Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, 2003

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Psychiatry and Psychotherapy: Canary in the Coal Mine Fights Back: What access to “intermediate levels of care” says about managed care  
    Plakun EM, Psychiatric News, 3/15/2019

Lectures

  • Countertransference enactment in personality disorders 
    New York City
  • An emotionally empty woman narcissistic woman with a negative therapeutic reaction: First do no harm 
    Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in Boston, MA
  • Dynamic therapy with self-destructive borderline patients: An Alliance Based Intervention for Suicide 
    Massachusetts and Albany Association of Psychoanalytic Psychology
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Press Mentions

  • COVID-19 and Psychotherapy: Addressing Blocked Mourning
    COVID-19 and Psychotherapy: Addressing Blocked MourningJuly 9th, 2020
  • Austen Riggs Center Named a High Performing Hospital for Psychiatry by U.S. News & World Report
    Austen Riggs Center Named a High Performing Hospital for Psychiatry by U.S. News & World ReportJuly 30th, 2019
  • Legal Promise of Equal Mental Health Treatment Often Falls Short
    Legal Promise of Equal Mental Health Treatment Often Falls ShortJune 7th, 2019
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Committees

  • member, American Psychiatric Association Finance and Budget Committee 2020 - Present
  • Representing AREA 1 (New England and Eastern Canada), American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees 2018 - Present
  • Founding Leader, American Psychiatric Association Psychotherapy Caucus 2014 - Present
  • Member, American College of Psychiatrists Nominating Committee
  • Member, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) Psychotherapy Committee
  • Member, National Association of Behavioral Health (NABH) Managed Care Committee
  • Founding member, Coalition for Psychotherapy Parity

Professional Memberships

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Dr. Eric Plakun, Dr. Eric Plakun, MD, Dr. E Plakun, Dr. Eric Martin Plakun