Nancy McWilliams: Seminar 1
Supervision and Psychoanalytic Institutes
Participation available via Zoom Teleconferencing.
YOU WILL RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK THE DAY BEFORE THE SEMINAR.
Please note: To preserve and respect both intellectual property rights and confidentiality, the seminar will not be recorded, nor is recording permitted.
Seminar Description:
This seminar will focus on supervision and consultation processes in psychoanalytic institutes. We will look at both the gratifications and the challenges of supervising candidates in analytic institutes, addressing dynamics involving boundaries, regressive pulls, issues of psychoanalytic identity, idealization and devaluation, splitting, fears about exposure, and systemic pressures that may compromise patient care. In the context of current controversies about psychoanalytic training, it depicts some complications of supervising at this level in the context of what is often an enmeshed professional community.
About the Speaker:
Nancy McWilliams teaches 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), and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2004) and Psychoanalytic Supervision (expected publication September 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. Her books are available in 20 languages; she lectures widely both nationally and internationally.