Events

You’re invited to attend a summer book club and study group of Nancy McWilliams' Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process. The book is a classic in our field and an indispensable reference manual. We will meet for eight sessions over the course of the summer to learn about, discuss, and clinically apply McWilliams’ taxonomy of personality types. This offering is ideal for beginning therapists who’d like to know how to distinguish between various types of patients, and as a result, which interventions work best with whom; as well as more seasoned clinicians who’d like to brush up on their knowledge and connect with colleagues for case discussions. We will learn about narcissistic, masochistic, depressive, hysterical, and many other kinds of personality structures. We will focus on understanding the defenses which underlie each structure. Each session will focus on a specific chapter(s) of the book. We will have both a didactic/discussion component and a clinical application component. You’re encouraged to bring applicable cases for discussion.