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“Relational Trauma, Attachment Disturbance, and Personality Style:
Therapeutic Implications of Different Developmental Narratives”
A workshop with Dr. Nancy McWilliams
Saturday, June 14, 2014
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Fees:
Early Bird (prior to April 15): $175
Regular (April 15-June 13): $200
On-site: $225
Students and residents in psychiatry: $175
Payment can be made to: Alberta Health Services
We accept cheque or money order; cash accepted if payment is made on-site.
Please mail registration form and payment to:
Dr. Nadia Tomy
c/o Lisa Nelson
Room 1E1 WMC
8440-112 St
Edmonton Alberta
T6G 2B7
tel: (780) 407-8330
The Psychodynamic Psychiatric Services Department
Invites you to a workshop with:
Dr. Nancy McWilliams
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Lister Hall, Maple Leaf Room
University of Alberta
“Relational Trauma, Attachment Disturbance, and Personality Style:
Therapeutic Implications of Different Developmental Narratives”
Objectives:
1) Understand personality and individual developmental narratives from 9 different
angles of vision: temperament, observed clinical patterns, attachment style, defensive
organization, implicit cognitions about self and others, affective patterns, drive
constellations, core conflicts and relational themes, and maturational organization.
2) Understand self-defeating personality patterns as a special example of the value of
understanding individual narratives from multiple angles of vision.
3) View and discuss a video of a client whose history of relational trauma, affect
disturbance and subtle personality dynamics illustrate the prior material.
4) Discuss the video, including the clinical issues it raises to the current pressures on
therapists to construe treatment narrowly in terms of overt symptom relief.
Schedule:
8:30 - 9:00: Registration and breakfast provided
9:00 - 9:15: Introductory remarks
9:15 - 10:30: Dr. McWilliams will present material on the conceptualization of
personality and individual developmental narratives from 9 different angles of vision.
10:30 - 10:45: Break with refreshments provided
10:45 - 12:00: Dr. McWilliams will discuss self-defeating (masochistic) patterns to
demonstrate the value in understanding individual narratives from multiple angles of
vision.
12:00 - 1:15: Lunch provided in Maple Leaf room
1:15 to 2:30: Dr. McWilliams will introduce and show a DVD of a client to demonstrate
and highlight concepts within the material covered earlier in the day.
2:30 - 2:45: Break with refreshments provided
2:45 - 4:00: Interactive discussion of video, including the clinical issues it raises to the
current pressures on therapists to construe treatment narrowly in terms of overt
symptom relief. Discussion and evaluation of the day.
Fees: (registration form to follow)
Early Bird (prior to April 15): $175
Regular (April 15-June 13): $200
On site: $225
Students and residents in psychiatry: $175
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Parking is available in the Lister Hall Parking Lot for $4.
Lunch and refreshments are included in the fee
Accreditation for CME credit (Level 1) pending
About Nancy McWilliams
Nancy McWilliams, who teaches at the Graduate School of Applied & Professional
Psychology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is author of
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process
(1994, rev. ed. 2011), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), and Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy: A Practitioner’s Guide (2004), all with Guilford Press, and is
Associate Editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006). She is Past
President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological
Association and is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology.
Dr. McWilliams has written on personality structure and personality disorders,
psychodiagnosis, sex and gender, trauma, intensive psychotherapy, and
contemporary challenges to the humanistic tradition in psychotherapy. Her books
have been translated into fifteen languages, and she lectures frequently both
nationally and internationally. Her book on case formulation received the Gradiva
Award for best psychoanalytic clinical book of 1999, and the 2011 edition of her
diagnosis book was given the Goethe Award of the Canadian Psychological
Association Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychology section. In 2004 she was
given the Rosalee Weiss Award for contributions to practice by the Division of
Independent Practitioners of the American Psychological Association; in 2006 she
was made an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She has
received both the Leadership Award and the Scholarship Award from APA’s Division
39. A graduate of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, she is
also affiliated with the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey
and the National Training Program of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in
New York City. She has a private practice in Flemington, New Jersey.
Areas of Specialty
Dr. McWilliams specializes in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and supervision; the
relationship between psychodiagnosis and treatment; alternatives to DSM diagnostic
conventions; integration of feminist theory and psychoanalytic knowledge; the
application of psychoanalytic understanding to the problems of diverse clinical
populations; altruism; narcissism; and trauma and dissociative disorders.