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.

Location: Moscow, Russia
Topics: The continuum of personality structure from psychotic through healthy psychologies
Contemporary diagnostic controversies and their implications
Current plans for the second edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual
Research in psychotherapy and its implications for psychoanalytic therapists
Conceptualizing overall mental health and formulating cases
Paranoid and schizoid psychologies, and treatment implications
Sponsor: Russian Society for Existential Psychotherapists
Contact: Konstantin Gutman: konstantin.gutman@gmail.com