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Steven Ackerman, PhD, MBA, ABPP

Accreditation Manager/Team Leader/Chair of the Austen Riggs Institutional Review Board/Staff Psychologist

Steven Ackerman, PhD, MBA, ABPP

Accreditation Manager/Team Leader/Chair of the Austen Riggs Institutional Review Board/Staff Psychologist

Education

  • BA in clinical psychology from Rutgers University
  • MA in clinical psychology from Fairleigh Dickenson University
  • PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Arkansas
  • Pre-doctoral internship at Massachusetts Mental Health Center (a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School system)
  • Fellowship in psychoanalytic studies at the Austen Riggs Center
  • MBA from the University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management
Steven Ackerman, PhD, is a treatment team leader, a psychotherapist, a consultant to the therapeutic community program, and the accreditation manager at the Austen Riggs Center. Dr. Ackerman is also the chair of the Austen Riggs Institutional Review Board.

Certifications & Appointments

  • Certified in psychoanalysis by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABAPsa)

Research Interests

Studying the therapeutic alliance through examining the interaction between personality, psychopathology, and psychotherapy process.