Price range: $0.00 through $60.00
Date: November 15
Time: 11:00 AM–2:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Therapists struggle to help patients for whom situational stressors interact with personality patterns in complicated combinations of grief, mourning, and depressive and masochistic dynamics. Because neither “Depressive Personality Disorder” nor “Self-Defeating Personality Disorder” is found in the DSM or ICD, official taxonomies offer little clinical help in distinguishing between various painful self-states and framing therapy accordingly. 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.
Learning Objectives:
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 all three editions of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006, 2017, 2025). 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 more than 20 languages, and she has taught in more than 30 countries.
Continuing Education Credits
For Psychologists:
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For NJ Social Workers:
This program co-sponsored by the New Jersey Society for Clinical Social Work, which provides leadership and support to clinical social workers in all practice settings. The New Jersey Society for Clinical Social Work has given voice to clinical social workers dealing with the healthcare industry. The organization provides outstanding continuing education programs and opportunities for collegial contact.
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Workshop Costs:
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Conflict of Interest Policy:
There is no potential conflict of interest and/or commercial support for this continuing education event.
Additional Details:
The last day to register for this workshop is 11/12/26
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