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.