We invite you to join us for a Zoom conversation with psychoanalyst Nancy McWilliams as part of the series "Thinking Here and Now - Conversations with Pioneers in Psychotherapy." The conversation will focus on the types and forms of psychodynamic diagnoses and how they can navigate the treatment process. Prof. McWilliams has been a pioneer in recent decades in the evolving conceptualization of psychodynamic diagnosis and in formulating the meanings of psychodynamic diagnoses for treatment. In the conversation, we will try to learn from her about the latest developments in the field of psychodynamic diagnosis and highlight their key implications for treatment management through therapeutic examples. In addition, we will talk with Nancy McWilliams about the unique problems of psychoanalysis today (such as psychoanalysts as technicians or therapists, how to protect our profession, manual therapy, the industrialization of psychotherapy).

Dr. McWilliams specializes in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and guidance, the relationship between diagnosis and treatment, psychodynamic alternatives to diagnosis according to DSM and ICD diagnoses; integration of feminist theory and psychoanalytic knowledge, psychoanalytic understanding of the problems of diverse clinical populations; altruism; narcissism; trauma and dissociative disorders.

Dr. Nancy McWilliams is a psychologist and psychoanalyst who teaches at the School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers. She has a private practice in Lambertville, New Jersey. She is co-editor of both editions of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, past president of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Austin Riggs Center. Her books on diagnosis, case studies, and treatment have been translated into 20 languages.

Among its most notable libraries:

Psychoanalytic Diagnosis Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process (2011)

Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999)

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide (2004)

Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006