TICP presents A Day with Nancy McWilliams, Ph,D. ABPP

Dr. McWilliams will differentiate conceptually between depression and mourning, between anaclitic and introjective depression, between relational self-sabotage and “moral masochism” (Reik, 1941), and between depressive and self-defeating personality patterns. She will give clinical examples, including a case in some depth, that illustrate treatment implications of the different presentations of sadness, despair, and malignant self-regard.

Nancy McWilliams is Visiting Professor Emerita of clinical psychology at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and practices in Lambertville, New Jersey. She is author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (1994, rev. ed. 2011), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2004) and Psychoanalytic Supervision (2021) and is associate editor of both editions of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006, 2017). A former president of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, she has been featured in three APA videos of master clinicians. She is on the Board of Trustees of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA. Her books are available in 20 languages, and she has taught in 30 countries.

Learning Objectives

After this presentation, participants will be able

1) to articulate three differences between normal grief and clinical depression;

2) to identify differences between predominantly depressive and predominantly self-defeating (masochistic) personality patterns;

3) to name two clinical implications when the patient is more masochistic than simply depressive in personality organization.

FEES

General Attendee $210

TICP Member, Guest, Faculty $175

Students $100

NOTE:  Virtual Spaces Available

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