EricMartinPlakunMD

Psychiatry • Stockbridge, MA

Forensic Psychiatry

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

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Office
25 Main Street
Stockbridge, MA 01262
Phone+1 413-931-5208

Fax+1 413-298-4020

Education & Training

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

Certifications & Licensure

MA State Medical License 1978 - 2025
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

Afterword to "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Approaches for Chronic Suicidality".
Eric M Plakun
Journal of Psychiatric Practice. 2024-01-01
Psychotherapy and Artificial Intelligence.
Eric M Plakun
Journal of Psychiatric Practice. 2023-11-01
Psychodynamic Therapy: An Overview for Trainees and Their Teachers: Part 2-The Therapeutic Stance.
Eric M Plakun
Journal of Psychiatric Practice. 2023-07-01

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
Responding to the Impact of Suicide on Clinicians
American Psychiatric Association
Treatment Resistance: Application of psychoanalytic ideas to dilemmas in treatment
Discussion Group at annual meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association
The Difficult Patient: A psychiatric perspective from a psychoanalyst
Georgia Association of Psychiatric Physicians, Atlanta, GA
The Difficult Patient: A psychoanalytic perspective
Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society, Atlanta, GA
How to Evolve and Be True to Our Principles: The Austen Riggs Center as a case study
63rd annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
The Mental Health Crisis in America: Recognizing Problems, working toward solutions
Austen Riggs Center Centennial Conference
A Landmark Verdict in the Struggle to Provide Care to Patients in Need: The canary in the coalmine fights back
Annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA
Perspectives on Suicide: Treating the suicidal patient
University of South Alabama
Perspectives on Suicide: Responding to the impact of suicide on psychiatrists
University of South Alabama
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Press Mentions

HMN 2024: When Outpatient Psychiatric Care Is Not EnoughDecember 5th, 2024
COVID-19 and Psychotherapy: Addressing Blocked MourningJuly 9th, 2020
Austen Riggs Center Named a High Performing Hospital for Psychiatry by U.S. News & World ReportJuly 30th, 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, 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
Member, American College of Psychiatrists Nominating Committee