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WE-3 |
Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders |
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Name |
Nancy McWilliams |
Nationality |
USA |
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Title |
Psychologist (PhD) |
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Affiliation |
Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional
Psychology |
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Workshop type |
Between-Conference workshop
Evenings of Oct 13th, 14th and 15th, 2008 (three evenings
during the conference, 9hours) |
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Language |
English with
Chinese
translator |
Number of
trainees |
80-- |
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Abstract or brief
introduction of the workshop
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This workshop will
educate participants in the understanding of
different kinds of personality organization,
especially those that constitute disorders
of personality, and provide specific ideas
for understanding and treating individuals
with problematic personalities. Special
emphasis will be placed on schizoid,
paranoid, narcissistic, psychopathic,
depressive, and self-defeating personality
patterns.
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CV of the trainer |
Nancy McWilliams, who
teaches at the Graduate School of Applied &
Professional Psychology at Rutgers, the
State University of New Jersey, is author of
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding
Personality Structure in the Clinical
Process (1994), Psychoanalytic Case
Formulation (1999), and Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide
(2004), all with Guilford Press, and is
Associate Editor of the Psychodynamic
Diagnostic Manual (2006). She is President
of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of
the American Psychological Association,
Associate Editor of the Psychoanalytic
Review, and on the editorial board of
Psychoanalytic Psychology.
Dr. McWilliams has written widely on
personality structure and personality
disorders, psychodiagnosis, sex and gender,
trauma, intensive psychotherapy, and
contemporary challenges to the humanistic
tradition in psychotherapy. Her books have
been translated into twelve languages, and
she has lectured widely both nationally and
internationally. Her book on case
formulation received the Gradiva Award for
best psychoanalytic clinical book of 1999;
in 2004 she was given the Rosalee Weiss
Award for contributions to practice by the
Division of Independent Practitioners of the
American Psychological Association; and in
2006 she was made an Honorary Member of the
American Psychoanalytic Association. A
graduate of the National Psychological
Association for Psychoanalysis, she is also
affiliated with the Institute for
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New
Jersey and the National Training Program of
the National Institute for the
Psychotherapies in New York City. She has a
private practice in Flemington, New Jersey.
Dr. McWilliams specializes in psychoanalytic
psychotherapy and supervision; the
relationship between psychodiagnosis and
treatment; alternatives to DSM-IV diagnostic
conventions; integration of feminist theory
and psychoanalytic knowledge; the
application of psychoanalytic understanding
to the problems of diverse clinical
populations; altruism; narcissism;
structural diagnosis; dissociation and
dissociative disorders. |
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