Clinical Implications of Individual Differences: Ten Angles of Vision on Individuality (will be recorded)

Co-hosted with USC

Presenter:  Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP      
2 CEUs     
Costs: Member/USC Alumni - $65 | Nonmember - $105 | CSCSW/USC Student - $25 

Dr. McWilliams will review ten different psychological lenses through which personality has been viewed (temperament, attachment, observed clinical pattern, defensive structure, affective organization, implicit cognition, drive tendencies, self-definition versus self-in-relation orientation, core relational theme, organizing developmental issue). She will emphasize the therapeutic implications of each angle of vision and give clinical examples. There will be time for questions and discussion.

Learning Objectives:

1. Enumerate ten angles of vision by which personality has been conceptualized
2. Differentiate between conceptualizing personality in terms of traits and construing it in terms of intersubjective themes, and to apply that understanding toward a more nuanced formulation of the psychologies of their clients
3. Improve their capacity to identify borderline personality organization in clients who fail to meet criteria for the categorical diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder
4. Make clinical choices that increase their effectiveness with patients whose psychology seems organized mainly at the borderline or psychotic level of severity.

About the Presenter:

Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP  

Nancy McWilliams is a retired professor 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.

Contact:  Monica Blauner

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