Eric M. Plakun, MD, DLFAPA, FACPsych, is an American board certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher and forensic psychiatrist. He is the current associate medical director and director of biopsychosocial advocacy at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA. Plakun’s primary interests include the value of and evidence base for psychosocial treatments and the diagnosis, treatment, longitudinal course and outcome of patients with borderline personality disorder and treatment resistant disorders. Plakun has been widely published and quoted in the media on psychotherapy and psychiatry, including in The New York Times and The Globe and Mail. He has appeared in the media to discuss his psychiatric work on WAMC, the Albany, New York affiliate of NPR. and on CBS 60 Minutes. His psychiatr