conversation with
Nancy McWilliams
The psychodynamic diagnosis as a guide to the psychotherapeutic encounter
27.12.2020 Sunday, 7:30pm - 9:15 pm (Israel Time; UTC+2)
We invite you to join us in a live Zoom conversation with psychoanalyst Nancy McWilliams in another meeting of our series, "Thinking Here and Now- Conversations with innovators in psychotherapy.The conversation will focus on the art and science of psychodynamic treatment, clinical diagnostic issues (such as the schizoid patient, borderline patient), DSM and diagnosis, treating difficult patients. Nancy will use illustrative clinical examples to demonstrate psychodynamic work with patients. She will also discuss the unique problems of psychoanalysis today (such as psychoanalysts as technicians or healers, how to defend our profession, manualized treatment, the industrialization of psychotherapy).Dr. McWilliams specializes in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and supervision, the relationship between diagnosis and treatment, alternatives to DSM and ICD diagnostic conventions; integration of feminist theory and psychoanalytic knowledge, and psychoanalytic understanding to the problems of diverse clinical populations; altruism; narcissism; and trauma and dissociative disorders.