Summary

Dr. Eric M. Plakun is the Director of Admissions and Professional Relations at the Austen Riggs Center. He is also Co-Principal Investigator of a prospective Follow-Along Study of treatment outcome at Riggs Center that incorporates objective measures of psychodynamic concepts. A board certified psychiatrist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, researcher and forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Plakun is the editor of New Perspectives on Narcissism (American Psychiatric Press, 1990) and author of more than twenty-five articles and book chapters on the diagnosis, treatment, longitudinal course and outcome of borderline, narcissistic and other personality disorders. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a member of its Assembly, chair of the APA Committee on Psychotherapy by Psychiatrists, and a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists. He is a former trustee of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. A diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Examiners and the American Board of Forensic Medicine, Dr. Plakun also served with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology as a member of the written test committee and as an oral examiner. In 2003 Dr. Plakun was selected by the 1700 member Massachusetts Psychiatric Society as the Outstanding Psychiatrist in Clinical Psychiatry.

Dr. Plakun graduated from Hofstra University and received an M.D. from the Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons. After an internship in medicine at Dartmouth, Dr. Plakun worked as a rural general practitioner in Vermont before completing a psychiatric residency at Dartmouth and a Fellowship and Advanced Fellowship in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Riggs.
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Quick Facts

  • 2
  • 54 years of experience
  • Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
  • 5 written reviews
  • 1 specialty
  • 15 areas of expertise
  • 1 board certification
  • 1 hospital affiliation
  • 1 office location
  • Male

Office Location

Austen Riggs Center

25 Main StStockbridge, MA 01262

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Medical Specialties

Dr. Eric Martin Plakun has the following specialty

Specialty Expertise

Dr. Eric Martin Plakun has the following 15 areas of expertise

  • Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) / Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Depression
  • Depressive Disorder
  • Insomnia
  • Manic Depressive Disorder
  • Mental Disorders
  • Mental Illness
  • Mood Disorders
  • Personality Disorder
  • Personality Disorders
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Schizophrenia
  • Sleep Disorders

Certifications, License, & Education

54 Years Experience

MEDICAL LICENSE

Medical Doctor, Massachusetts, 2027, Active

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Residency

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Medical School

Columbia University College Of Physicians & SurgeonsGraduated in 1972

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