Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society
Saturday, May 3, 2025, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D., ABPP
“Working with Depressive and Self-Defeating Psychologies”
Especially since the pandemic, therapists struggle to help patients with painful losses and challenges. Situational stresses interact with personality patterns, presenting therapists with 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,” and between depressive and self-defeating personality patterns. She will use her own case material illustratively and present one self-defeating patient in depth.
Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D., ABPP, 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 both editions of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006, 2017). A former president of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Division 39 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.
Reference: Auerbach, J. S. (2019). Relatedness, self-definition, mental representation, and internalization in the work of Sidney J. Blatt: Scientific and clinical contributions. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 36, 291-302.
3 CME’S
LOCATION: Virtual - Zoom
CHARGE: Members get up to 21 CMEs/CEUs for free per year.
Non-members pay $25 to attend a 3 hour speaker program meeting
and an additional $20 for CEUs for a total of $45 (or $15/CEU).
Register Online: https://tbps.wildapricot.org/
ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME,s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.