Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D.

9 Mine Street, Flemington, NJ  08822

Phone: 908-782-9766; Fax 908-788-5527

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A.B. Oberlin College, 1967

M.S.  Rutgers University, 1973 (Psychology: Personality, Social)

Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1976 (Psychology: Personality)

Certification as Psychoanalyst, 1978, National Psychological Assn. for Psychoanalysis, NYC.

Licensed as Practicing Psychologist in New Jersey, 1978.  License # 35S100126000.

A.B. cum laude, with Honors in major field (Political Science).

Visiting Seeley Professor, Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences, The

 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Wilford Hall Medical Center, United States Air Force at          

            Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX, 2001, 2002, 2004.

Gradiva Award given for Psychoanalytic Case Formulation by National Association for the  

            Advancement of Psychoanalysis: Best psychoanalytic clinical book, 1999.

Award for Distinguished Contributions to Women and Psychoanalysis, Section on Women,

            Gender and Psychoanalysis, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological   

            Association, April 5, 2003.

Honorary Fellow, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York, NY.  June 24, 2003.

Rosalee Weiss Award for contributions to practice.  Division of Independent Practitioners (42),

            American Psychological Association, July 31, 2004.

Leadership Award.  Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association,

            April 14, 2005.

Honorary Member, American Psychoanalytic Association, June, 15, 2006.

Robert S. Wallerstein Visiting Lectureship in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, February 2007.

Otto Weininger Award for Psychoanalytic Achievement.  Section on Psychoanalysis, Canadian

            Psychological Association, to be awarded June 8, 2007.

Honorary Board member, Alonso Center for Psychodynamic Studies, Fielding Graduate
           University.

Henry P. and Page Laughlin Distinguished Teacher Award.  American Society of Psychoanalytic

            Physicians. September 20, 2007.

Distinguished Lecturer, Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology, Widener University, Chester,

            PA, Oct. 9, 2007.

Private practice, Flemington, NJ: psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, supervision (since 1979).

Visiting Faculty, Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology, Rutgers University

            (since 1981).  Full Professor since 1994.

Faculty, National Training Program in Contemporary Psychotherapy (since 1999).

Editorial Board, Psychoanalytic Psychology

Board of Consultants, Psychoanalytic Review

Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Review.

Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Review, 2002-2008

Corresponding Member, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (1999-2005)

Faculty member, Minnesota Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies (1998-2004).

Faculty member, Institute for Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy of NJ (1986-1996).

Staff Psychologist, Family Service Association of Middlesex County, NJ (1976-1982).

Coadjutant Professor of Psychology, Livingston College, Rutgers (1976-1979).

Coadjutant Professor of Psychology, Douglass College (1975).

Instructor in Psychology, Livingston College, Rutgers (1974-75).

Mental Health Clinician II, Rutgers Mental Health Ctr., Univ. Med. & Dentistry of NJ (1973-74).

Adjunct Professor of Physiology, Rutgers (spring 1973, 1974).

Lecturer, Fordham University, Women's Studies Program (1970).

Lecturer, Brooklyn College, Psychology Department (1970).

American Psychological Association.  Member, Division of Psychoanalysis (39).  Sec. I, III [Board member, 2000-2006], V, VI, IX.  Chair, Publications Committee, 2001-.  Board Member at Large, 2001-2006;  President, 2007-2008).

New Jersey Psychological Association (Member).

National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (Senior Member).

Center for Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy of NJ (IPPNJ Recording Secretary, 1989-2001)

Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration.

International Society for the Study of Dissociation.

McWilliams, N. (in press). The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual: An Effort to Compensate for the Limitations of Descriptive Psychiatric Diagnosis. Journal of Personality Assessment.

McWilliams, N. (in press). Paranoia and political leadership. Psychoanalytic Review.

McWilliams, N. (2009). Some thoughts on the survival of psychoanalytic practice. Clinical
Social Work, 37, 81-83.

McWilliams, N. (2009). Psychoanalysis. In I. Marini  & M. A. Stebnicki  (Eds.), Professional Counselor Desk Reference, pp. 289-300. New York: Springer.

McWilliams, N. (2007). Freud’s contemporary relevance. In Merlino, J. P., Jacobs, M., Kaplan, J., & Moritz, K. L. (Eds.) (pp. 143-146). Freud at 150: Twenty-First Century Essays on a Man of Genius. New York: Jason Aronson.

McWilliams, N. (2007). Freud’s voice. In Merlino et al. (above), (pp. 169-171).

McWilliams, N. (2007). Two essays in Merlino, J. P., Jacobs, M., Kaplan, J., & Moritz, K. L. (Eds.). Freud at 150: Twenty-First Century Essays on a Man of Genius. New York: Jason Aronson.

McWilliams, N. (2006).  The woman who hurt too much to talk.  Fort Da, 12, 9-25.

McWilliams, N. (2006).  Some thoughts about schizoid dynamics.  Psychoanalytic Review, 93, 1-24.

McWilliams, N. (2006).  Depressive and masochistic personality organization.  Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 27, 95-117.

Messer, S., & McWilliams, N. (2006).  Insight in psychodynamic therapy.  In L. Castonguay & C. Hill (Eds.), Insight in psychotherapy (pp. 9-29).  New York: Springer.

McWilliams, N. (2005).  Preserving our humanity as therapists.  Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice & Training, 42, 139-151, and Response to Norcross.  Same issue, 156-159.

McWilliams, N. (2004).  Some observations about supervision/consultation groups.  New Jersey Psychologist, Winter, 16-18.

Foreword to M. Charles (2004), Learning from experience: A guidebook for clinicians. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.

McWilliams, N. (2003).  The educative aspects of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 20, 245-260.

McWilliams, N.. & Weinberger, J. (2003).  Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.  In G. Stricker & T. A. Widiger, Comprehensive Handbook of Psychology, Vol. 8: Clinical Psychology (pp.253-277).  New York: Wiley.

Messer, S. B., & McWilliams, N. (2003).  The impact of Sigmund Freud and The Interpretation of Dreams.  In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), The anatomy of impact: What makes the great works of psychology great? (pp. 71-88). Washington, DC: APA Press.

McWilliams, N. (2002).  Foreword (pp. ix-xii) to P. Casement, Learning from Our Mistakes.  New York: Guilford.

McWilliams, N. (2000).  On teaching psychoanalysis in antianalytic times: A polemic.  American

            Journal of Psychoanalysis, 60, 371-390.

McWilliams, N. (1998).  Relationship, subjectivity, and inference in diagnosis.  In J. W. Barron (Ed.), Making diagnosis meaningful: Enhancing evaluation and treatment of psychological disorders (pp. 197-226).  Washington, DC: American Psychological Assn. Press.

McWilliams, N. (1996).  Some reflections of a heterosexual female therapist on working with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients.  Gender and Psychoanalysis, 1,  203-221.

McWilliams, N. (1994).  Working sensitively with students in the borderline range.  Current

            Issues in Counseling and Psychotherapy, December, 1-7.

McWilliams, N. (1994).  Ongoing therapy with a dissociative patient.  New Jersey Psychologist,         

            44(2), 13-15.

McWilliams, N. (1993).  Sexual intimacy and the therapist’s educative role.  New Jersey           Psychologist, 43(1), 17-19.

McWilliams, N. (1992).  The worst of both worlds: Dilemmas of contemporary young women. In B. Wainrib (Ed.), Gender Issues Across the Life Cycle (pp. 27-36).  New York: Springer.

McWilliams, N. (1991).  Mothering and fathering processes in the psychoanalytic art. Psychoanalytic Review, 78, 525-545.

McWilliams, N. & Lependorf, S. (1990).  Narcissistic pathology of everyday life: The denial of

            remorse and gratitude.  Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 26, 430-451.

McWilliams, N. (1987).  The grandiose self and the interminable analysis.  Current Issues in

            Psychoanalytic Practice, 4, 93-107.

McWilliams, N., & Stein, J. (1987).  Women's groups run by women: The management of

            devaluing transferences.  International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 37, 139-153.

McWilliams, N. (1986).  Patients for life: The case for devotion.  The Psychotherapy Patient, 3, 55-69.  Also in J. Travers (Ed.), Psychotherapy and the interminable patient (pp. 55-69). New York: Haworth Press, 55-69.

McWilliams, N. (1984).  The psychology of the altruist.  Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1: 193-213.

Atwood, G. E., McWilliams, N., & Carroll, S. (1983).  Inventors of new selves.  American

            Journal of Psychoanalysis, 43, 245-259.

McWilliams, N. (1980).  Pregnancy in the analyst.  American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 40, 367-369.

McWilliams, N. (1979).  Treatment of the young borderline patient:  Fostering individuation

            against the odds.  Psychoanalytic Review, 66, 339-357.

McWilliams, N. (1977).  Personality theory at middle age: Generativity vs. stagnation.    Contemporary Psychology, 22, 25-28.

McWilliams, N. (1974).  Contemporary feminism, consciousness-raising, and changing views of

            the political.  In J. Jaquette (Ed.), Women in Politics.  New York: Wiley.

Contributions to Academic American Encyclopedia (1985 edition on, including recent CD-ROM versions), Grolier & Co., Danbury, CT, on Horney, Fromm, Sullivan, Reich, and others. 

Other short articles and reviews, in Contemporary Psychology, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, Psychotherapy Research, the National Psychologist, Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Psychiatric Times.

Interviewed in Rosenthal, H. (2006). Therapy’s best: Practical advice and gems of wisdom from twenty accomplished counselors and therapists. New York: Haworth Press (pp. 221-238).

American Psychological Association Series 1: Systems of Psychotherapy: Nancy McWilliams,

Mental Health: An Endangered Concept Individually and Communally. Plenary talk, American Group

          Psychotherapy Assn. Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Feb. 24, 2010.

Psychotherapy for the Whole Person. Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, Los Angeles, CA, Dec.

          5, 2009
Individuality and Mental Health: Implications of Contemporary Research in Neuroscience, Attachment, and Affect.

          Sacramento Valley Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Sacramento, CA, Nov. 13, 2009.
Treating the Individual in an Age of Industrialized Psychotherapy. New Mexico Psychoanalytic Society, Albuquerque, NM,

          Oct. 31, 2009.

The Future of Psychoanalysis. Western Massachusetts and Albany Psychoanalytic Psychological

           Association, Stockbridge, MA, May 9.  Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 7; Metropolitan

          Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists, New York, NY, Nov. 8, 2009.

The Contributions of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice, and Research to the Understanding of the

          Suffering Person. Fifth World Psychotherapy Conference, Beijing, China, Oct. 14, 2008. Workshop on Personality Disorders, Beijing, China, Oct. 13-15, 2008.

Rediscovering the Common Ground of Psychoanalysis and Humanistic Psychology. Panel

          discussion, American Psychological Assn. Convention, Boston, MA, August 16, 2008.
Consultation on leadership and personality, Kaplan DeVries, Inc., Martha’s Vineyard, MA, July

          12-13, 2008.
New Perspectives on the neuropsychological and bodily underpinnings of hysterical processes.

          Panel (with M. Crastnopol, N. Yarom, and L. Hopkins, Div. 39, APA, Spring Meeting, New

          York, NY, Apr. 11, 2008.

Working with Paranoid Dynamics.

Workshops/Talks on Personality and Psychotherapy, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Oklahoma,           

Presidential Lecture Series, Alliant International University, Los Angeles and San Diego, Feb. 7

            & 8, 2008.

Lectures on the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual and Personality Conceptualization for Austin

            Psychoanalytic Soc.; Univ. Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio; Univ. California,

            San Francisco, Dept. of Psychiatry; Metro Washington Chapter, NASW; North Carolina

            Psychoanalytic Soc.; New Ctr for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles; Bryn Mawr College;

            Northwest Ctr for Psychoanalysis, Portland, OR; Medical Coll. of Virginia/VCU,

            Richmond, VA; Amer. Soc. for Psychoanalytic Psychiatrists, Washington, DC; Houston-

            Galveston Psychoanalytic Soc.; Univ. California, Davis School of Medicine; Northern

            California Soc. for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Sacramento; Yale Univ. Dept. of

            Psychiatry, 2007.  International Psychotherapy Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007, 2008.

Working with the Ambivalently Attached: Psychotherapy with Schizoid and Paranoid Clients,

            Widener University, Chester, PA, Oct. 9, 2007.

Mini-course on personality, Dusquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 5-7, 2007.

Keynote speaker, American Mental Health Counselors Assn. Annual Conference, New Orleans,

            LA, July 27-28, 2007.

Keynote speaker, Mind-Brain Consortium, Summa Health System, Akron, OH, May 11, 2007.

Psychoanalytic Diagnosis and Its Discontents.  Psychoanalytic Assn., Westchester Ctr for the

            Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Rye, NY, Mar. 23, 2007.

Keynote speaker, National Membership Committee on Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work,

            Chicago, IL, Mar. 8-9, 2007.

Patients with Significant Paranoid Dynamics. Personality Studies Institute, New York, NY, Jan.

            12, 2007; Virginia Psychoanalytic Soc., Richmond, VA, Sept. 21, 2007; Connecticut Soc.

            for Psychoanalytic Psychology, New Haven, CT, Dec. 7, 2007.

The Relevance of the Psychoanalytic Tradition to Contemporary Psychotherapy Practice.
            William Paterson University Counseling Program, Wayne, NJ, Nov. 29, 2006.
Helping Borderline Patients: Contemporary Efforts and Controversies. Princeton
            House, Princeton, NJ, Nov. 27, 2006.
Workshops on personality for Human Development Clinic, Montana State University, Bozeman,
            MT; Hawaii Psychological Assn., Honolulu, HI; LeadingEdge Seminars, Toronto, CA,
            Fall, 2006.
Dissociative Processes in Personality Disorders. Keynote speech, International Society for the
            Study of Dissociation, annual conference, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 11, 2006.
Honoring Individuality in both Therapist and Patient. Keynote speech, Los Angeles County
            Psychological Assn. annual conference, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 14, 2006.
Preserving the Values of Psychotherapy. Keynote speech, Fielding Graduate University annual
            conference, July 14, 2006.

Workshops on Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual for Ontario Psychological Assn.; City

            University of New York; Columbia University Teachers College; Massachusetts

            Assn. for Psychoanalytic Psychology; Southwestern Psychoanalytic Society; Macquarie

            University in Sydney, Australia; Churchill Clinic in Perth, Australia; American

            Psychoanalytic Assn. Spring, 2006.

Schizoid Dynamics in Clinical Practice.  Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute, Cleveland, OH,

            Mar. 31, 2006

Workshop on Teaching Psychoanalytic Concepts.  American Psychoanalytic Assn. Convention,

            New York, NY, Jan. 19, 2006.

Values, Boundaries, Individuality, Self-Care.  Community Institute for Psychotherapy, San

            Rafael, CA, Jan. 14, 2006.

Schizoid Dynamics in Clinical Practice.  Nassau Univ. Medical Ctr., E. Meadow,

             LI, NY, Feb. 3, 2006; C. W. Post Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, Brookville,

            NY, Nov. 3, 2005; Dept. of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical Center,

            Hanover, NJ, Nov. 29, 2005; Dept. of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College

            of Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, Dec. 8, 2005

The Psychoanalytic Vocation: Standing for the Examined Life in a Quick-Fix Culture.  New

            Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis, Teaneck, NJ, Nov. 6, 2005.

Workshop on Personality.  New Hampshire Mental Health Counselors Assn.  Concord, NH, Nov.

            4, 2005

Workshop on Schizoid and Paranoid Dynamics.  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Dept. of

            Psychiatry, University of Edmonton, Oct. 29, 2005.

Diagnostic Concepts and Controversies. Montefiore Medical Ctr, New York, NY,

            Oct. 27, 2005.

Case presentation, Eastern University Graduate Counseling Program, St. Davids, PA, Oct. 21,

            2005.

Relation and Closeness.  Seventh International Cuenca Seminar, Cuenca, Spain.

A Therapist’s Perspective on “Evidence-Based Treatments.” Dept. of Psychiatry,

            Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Sept. 2, 2005.

Character Pathologies of Problematic Attachment: Depressive, Masochistic, Narcissistic, and

            Psychopathic Styles and Their Clinical Implications.  Group Therapy Training Program,

            Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Sept. 1, 2005.

Lectures on schizoid and paranoid psychologies.  Societa Italiano di Psicoanalisi della Relazione,

            Rome, Italy, May 21, 22, 2005

Preserving Psychoanalytic Values in a Resistant Culture.  The Derner Institute, Adelphi

            University, Garden City, LI, Apr. 30, 2005.

Schizoid Dynamics in Clinical Practice.  New York Medical College at  Westchester Medical Ctr,

           Mar. 29, 2005.

Lectures on clinical evidence, case presentation, attachment-disordered patients.  The Wright

            Institute, Oakland, CA, Mar. 17-19, 2005.

Lectures on clinical evidence, schizoid and paranoid patients.  Emory University, Atlanta

            Psychoanalytic Society, Atlanta, GA, Mar. 4-5, 2005.

Working with Clients with Schizoid and Paranoid Dynamics.  Dept. of Clinical Psychology, Antioch

            New England Graduate School, Keene, NH, Feb. 18, 2005.

Diagnostic Concepts and Controversies.  The Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA, Feb. 4,

            2005.

Psychoanalytic Diagnosis and Formulation: Seminar for Candidates.  American Psychoanalytic

            Association Annual Conference.  New York, NY, Jan. 22, 2005.

Working with People Who Resist Attachment.  Workshop for San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, La Jolla, CA, Dec. 11, 2004.

The Continuing Utility of Psychodynamic Formulation in the Climate of “Evidence-Based” Treatment.  Virginia Tarnow Memorial Lecture, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern Medical Center, Chicago, IL, Oct. 20, 2004. 

Case presentation: Unconventional psychoanalytic therapy with a schizoid patient.  Adelphi University, Garden City, LI, NY, Sept. 9, 2004.

Lectures on psychoanalytic therapy in Sweden, for Stockholm Academy for Psychotherapy Training, Union for Hypnosis, and Uppsala Psychiatric Center, Sept. 9-14, 2004.

Preserving our Humanity as Therapists.  Rosalee Weiss Award Lecture, American Psychological Assn. Conference, Honolulu, HI, July 31, 2004.

Chair and Discussant, Panel on “The Virtuous Narcissist.  American Psychological Assn. Convention, Honolulu, HI, July 31, 2004.

Honoring Individuality: How the Personalities of both Therapist and Client Influence Psychotherapy.  Two-day workshops in Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, and Sydney, Australia.  May 18-29, 2004.

David Ingamells Memorial Lecture, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Melbourne, Australia, May 17, 2004.

Psychotherapy Is More Than the Sum of Treatments for a Person’s “Disorders.”   School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, April 21, 2004.

Psychotherapy under Duress: Treating Difficult Clients under Difficult Conditions.  Workshop at Div. 39, APA, Spring Meeting, Miami Beach, FL, Mar. 17, 2004.

Working with Difficult Patients.  Workshop for the Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society, Knoxville, TN, Dec. 6, 2003.

Honoring the Individuality of Both Therapist and Patient.  Workshop for the Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, Minneapolis, MN, Nov. 1, 2003.

The Habit of Honesty: Psychoanalytic Challenges to a Culture of Entitlement.  Workshop for the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council.  Novi, MI, Oct. 25, 2003.

Respect for our Common Humanity: Preserving the Values on which Psychotherapy is Based.  Keynote address for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Bi-National Conference: Personality Structure in the Clinical Setting.  Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia, October 3-5, 2003.

Addressing Personality Style in Adolescent Clients (with B. Menzel).  Workshop for the State of New Jersey School-Based Youth Services staff.  Dover, NJ, June 25, 2003.

Occupational Hazards and Gratifications of Psychoanalytic Work.  Address to the graduating class of the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health.  Hunter College School of Social Work, New York, NY, June 24, 2003.

Colloquium for faculty, Dept. of Psychology, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey: The Examined Life in the Era of the Quick Solution.  May 15, 2003.

Lectures on personality structure and implications for psychotherapy.  Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 12-16.

What Makes a Therapy Psychoanalytic and Why Does It Matter?  The 28^th Sandor S. Feldman Memorial Lecture, Psychoanalytic Society of Upstate New York, Rochester, NY, May 3.

Women and Power.  Panel (with K. Maroda & J. Tillman) at Div. 39, APA, Spring Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, Apr. 5, 2003.

What Makes a Therapy Psychoanalytic: The Values, Attitudes, and Knowledge Base Underlying Psychodynamic Approaches.  Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of NJ, Iselin, NJ, Mar.23, 2003.

Workshop on Diagnosis. School of Psychological Sciences, University of Indianapolis and Indiana Society for Psychoanalytic Thought. Indianapolis, Mar. 15-16, 2003

Values in Psychoanalytic Therapy.  Vermont Association for Psychoanalytic Studies, Essex Junction, VT, Mar. 8, 2003.

The Psychoanalytic Sensibility.  Xavier University, Cincinnati Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, and Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute.  Cincinnati, OH, Feb. 15, 2003

Style and Tone in Psychoanalytic Therapies.  Day-long workshop for Southeast Florida Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology.  Fort Lauderdale, FL, Feb. 8, 2003.

Values in Psychoanalytic Therapy.  Columbia Psychiatric Institute, Bronx, NY.  Jan. 3, 2003.

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Workshop for the Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 16, 2002.

Vincula entre la Teoria Psicoanalitica y la Terapia Familiar (Connections between Psychoanalytic Theory and Family Therapy).  Two-day seminar for Instituto Latinamericano de Estudios de la Familia, Mexico City, Mexico, Nov. 9-10, 2002.

Was It Good for You, Too?  The Physiology and Psychology of Female Orgasm.  Discussant, conference sponsored by Widener University Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology and The Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology.  Chester, PA, Nov. 2, 2002.

The Examined Life in the Age of the Quick Fix.  Keynote speaker, conference for Southeast Regional Annual Conference of American Association of Pastoral Counselors, Hendersonville, SC, Oct. 25-27, 2002.

The Conceptual Foundations of Psychoanalytic Therapies.  Day-long workshop for Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Society.  Sept. 28, 2002.

Workshop on Teaching Psychoanalysis.  Panel (with J. Slavin & S. Orfanos). American Psychological Assn. Convention, Chicago, IL, Aug. 25, 2002.

Schizoid Dynamics in Highly Creative People.  Panel (with B. Karon, L. Pomeroy & H. Davis). Annual meeting of American Psychological Assn.  Chicago, IL, Aug. 22, 2002.

Keynote address and workshops on personality disorders, Third National Psychotherapy in Australia Conference, Melbourne, Australia, July 3-7, 2002.

What Makes a Therapy Psychoanalytic and Why Does It Matter?  Tampa Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies.  Tampa, FL, June 15, 2002.

Psychotherapy Workshop on Values, the Relational Revolution, and Schizoid States.  Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Apr. 27, 2002.

Ritual and Spontaneity in Supervision.  Panel (with S. Orfanos, M. Clary, C. Callan, K. Moore).  Div. 39, APA, Spring Meeting, New York, NY, Apr. 11, 2002.

What Makes a Therapy Distinctively Psychodynamic?  University of Texas Medical Center at San Antonio, Mar. 12, 2002.

The Educative Aspects of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.  San Antonio Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, San Antonio, TX, Mar. 9, 2002.

Issues in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Practice.  Workshop for the Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis, Seattle, WA, Mar. 1-2, 2002.

Workshop on diagnosis and formulation, New Hampshire Psychological Association, Portsmouth, NH, Nov. 30, 2001.

Consultation and lecture on psychotherapy as education to Tufts University Counseling Center staff and interns.  Medford, MA, Nov. 19, 2001.

Psychodynamic Diagnosis:  Diagnosis for Therapy’s Sake.  Hamm Clinic, St. Paul, MN, Nov. 9, 2001.

The Person Under the Problem: How Understanding Personality Structure Empowers Therapy.   Workshop for Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Dallas, TX, Nov. 3, 2001.

On Relationship and Context:  How Psychoanalytic Therapists Understand Their Patients.  Athens, Greece, Sept. 26, 2001.

Workshops on Psychopathic and Narcissistic Disorders in Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece.  Institute for Psychology and Health.  September 27, 28, 2001.

Character Diagnosis and Psychoeducation.  U. S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Philadelphia, PA.  Aug. 6, 2001.

A Day with Nancy McWilliams: Stony Brook University Counseling Center, Stony Brook, NY.  July 9, 2001.

Personality Disorders Institute.  Continuing Education and Professional Development Program, Rutgers School of Social Work.  June 15, 22, 29, 2001.

Seminars on contemporary issues in mental health, Perth, Western Australia, May 25- June 1, 2001.  Addresses to various professional groups, workshop on diagnosis and treatment, speech to psychiatric association.  Sponsored by the Churchill Clinic, Subiako, W.A.

Discussant, panel on “Authorizing the Analyst’s Influence.”  Div. 39, APA, Spring Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, Apr. 28, 2001.

Having an Impact: The Therapist’s Agency and the Aims of Psychotherapy (with J. Slavin).  Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, Mar. 2, 2001.

Psychoeducational Aspects of Treatment.  University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, Nov. 15, 2000.

Conference on Case Formulation and Psychotherapy.  Nashville Institute for Psychotherapy, Nashville, TN, Sept. 22-23, 2000.

Workshops on psychoanalytic diagnosis and therapy.  New Zealand: Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin professional communities, Aug. 11-19, 2000.

Psychoanalytic Diagnosis and Case Formulation, and Psychotherapy of Personality Disorders: The Therapist’s Educative Role.  Workshop and Grand Rounds address, University of Alberta, Department of Psychiatry, Edmonton, Alberta, CA, May 14, 15, 2000.

Psychotherapy as Education.  Tampa Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Tampa, FL, May 7, 2000.

Cultivating Seasoning: Organizing and Using Subjectivity, Intuition, and Inference in the Clinical Process.  Seminar for Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalytic Education. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA,  Feb. 27, 2000.

The Therapist as Teacher: The Educative Role of the Psychotherapist.  Doctoral Program in Psychology, Adelphi University. Garden City, NY,  Feb. 24, 2000.

Psychotherapy as Education. George Washington University Center for Professional Psychology.  Washington, DC, Jan. 28, 2000.  Widener College Doctor of Psychology Program, Chester, PA, Nov. 6, 1999.  NJ Psychological Assn., Iselin, NJ, Oct. 23, 1999.

How Therapists Really Diagnose.  New Jersey Society of Clinical Social Workers.  Florham Park, NJ, Oct. 24, 1999.

Psychoanalytic Diagnosis and Case Formulation. Workshop for Western Canada Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association. Vancouver, British Columbia, Oct. 29-30, 1999.

Psychoanalytically Oriented Case Formulation.  Eastern College.  St. David’s, PA, Oct. 20, 1999.

What Contemporary Clients Need to Know about Sexual Intimacy.  National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis.  New York, NY, Oct. 8, 1999.

Psychoanalytically Informed Personality Diagnosis.  Workshops for Continuing Education Program, School of Social Work, Rutgers University.  Piscataway, NJ, June 7; Sparta, NJ, Nov. 4; Piscataway, NJ, Dec. 13, 1999.

Beyond DSM-IV: How Psychoanalytic Character Diagnosis Facilitates Treatment.  Workshop, Ontario Psychological Assn.  Toronto, Ontario, CA, June 5, 1999.

Personality and Politics: How Character and Political Exigencies Affect Each Other.  Amherst College.  Amherst, MA, Mar. 3, 1999.

Psychoanalytically Informed Personality Diagnosis: Understanding Character and Its Clinical Implications.  Workshop for Continuing Education Program, School of Social Work, Rutgers University.  Mount Holly, NJ, Nov. 4, 1998.

Characterological Altruism: The Psychology of People Who Consistently Help.   Conference on Mutual Understanding, Department of Psychology, University of Crete.  Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, Oct. 6, 1998.

Sexual Intimacy and the Therapist’s Educative Role.  Div. 39, APA, Spring Meeting, Boston, MA,  Apr. 24, 1998.

Seminar on personality diagnosis.  Lectures given for Stockholm Academy for Psychotherapy, May 27-28, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden, and for the Psychology Department, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, May 29, 1998.

Psychoanalytically Informed Diagnosis:  What the DSM-IV Doesn’t Tell You.  Day-long workshop, Community Institute for Psychotherapy, San Rafael, CA, Mar. 21, 1998.

Psychodynamic Inferential Psychodiagnosis.   George Washington University Center for Professional Psychology.  Washington, DC, Jan. 23, 1998.

Seminars on diagnosis and personality structure; private consultations for mental health professionals.  St. Petersburg, and Moscow, Russia, by invitation of St. Petersburg University Psychology Dept. and Moscow Psychoanalytic Society.  May 27-June 8, 1998.  This trip to help Russian professionals develop psychotherapy services was written up in the Jan./Feb. 1998 issue of The American Psychologist, 7, 19, 1998.

Workshop on psychoanalytic character diagnosis.  Appalachian Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, Nashville, TN, Apr. 5, 1997.

Treatment-Oriented Assessment: Psychoanalytic Evaluation Where Descriptive Psychiatric Diagnosis Fails Us.  Panel (with B. Grosshans, S. Lependorf, & N. Williams), Div. 39, APA, Spring Meeting,  Denver, CO, Feb. 27, 1997.

Psychoanalytic Diagnosis.  Lecture and seminars for the C. G. Jung Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, Jan. 17-18, 1997.

Relationship, Subjectivity and Meaning in Psychodiagnosis.  Immaculata College Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. West Chester, PA, Jan. 31, 1997.

Passing the Torch:  Reflections on Teaching Psychoanalysis in Anti-Analytic Times.  Keynote address, American Academy of Psychoanalysis.  Phoenix, AZ, Dec. 6, 1996.

Cognitive Therapy and Psychoanalytic Therapy: What Can We Learn from Each Other?  (With M. Spett, Ph.D.).  New Jersey Psychological Assn.  Woodbridge, NJ, Nov. 9, 1996.

Mothering and Fathering Processes in Psychotherapy.  New School for Social Research.  New York, NY, Feb. 22, 1996.

Psychoanalytic Character Diagnosis.  Minnesota Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies.  Minneapolis, Nov. 3-5, 1995; Mar. 15-17, 1996; Sept. 20-22, 1996.

Talking to Women about Their Sexuality.  Workshop for Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey. New Brunswick, NJ, Nov. 12, 1995.

Case Formulation: The Art of Assessing Individuality.  New York University Counseling Center.  New York, NY, Nov. 1, 1995.

Gay-Affirmative Psychoanalytic Therapy.  Doctoral Program in Psychology, Adelphi University.  Garden City, NY, Nov. 1, 1995.

Keeping the Faith.  Graduation address, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis.  New York, NY, June 16, 1995.

Heterosexual Therapists Working with Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Patients: Paradoxes, Challenges, and Gratifications. The Menninger Clinic.  Topeka, KS, May 22-26, 1995.

Psychoanalytic Character Diagnosis.  Workshop, Div. 39, APA, Spring Meeting,  Santa Monica, CA, Apr. 26, 1995.

The Analyst as Sex Educator.  Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey. Teaneck, NJ, Mar. 17, 1995.

Workshop on psychoanalytic diagnosis.  Local Chapter, Div. 39, APA, Sponsored by Div. of Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Assn.  Cincinnati, OH, Nov. 5, 1994.

Character Diagnosis as Differentiated from DSM-III-R Diagnosis:  Individuality in Depth.  New Jersey Psychological Assn.  Somerset, NJ, Nov. 6, 1993.

Heterosexual Female Therapists Working with Lesbians and Gay Men.  Panel on “Bridging the Gap of Difference in Therapist-Patient Sexual Orientation”).  American Psychological Assn. Convention. Toronto, Canada, Aug. 22, 1993.

Multiple Personality and Dissociation: Psychoanalytic Therapy for Dissociative Patients (With J. Rutstein)  Day-long workshop, Div. 39, APA, Spring Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Apr. 1, 1993.

Other lectures and conferences on multiple personality and dissociative disorders, given to Monmouth County Psychological Assn.; Univ. of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ; Morristown Mental Health Center; Institute for Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy of NJ; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; Kean College, Union, NJ, 1991-1994.

Workshop on supervision: panelist.  New Jersey Psychological Assn. Long Branch, NJ, May 2, 1992.

Beyond DSM III-R:  The Practical Value of Psychoanalytic Character Diagnosis.  Tufts University Counseling Center.  Medford, MA, Dec. 3, 1991.

Psychoanalytic and Feminist Meditations on Contemporary Problems in Intimacy.  New Jersey Psychological Assn.  Newark, NJ, Apr. 27, 1991.

Psychotherapy of Severely Disturbed, Interminable Patients.  University of Pennsylvania Hospital.  Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 23, 1990.

Seminar on psychoanalytic character diagnosis.  Hightstown Mental Health Center. Hightstown, NJ.  Apr. 11, 18, 25, May 2, 1989.

Treatment of Personality Disorders.  Richard Hall Mental Health Center.  Somerville, NJ, Apr. 28, 1989.

Infantilization: An Unintended Consequence of Psychoanalytic Education. Paper for Division of Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Assn.  Boston, MA, Apr. 8, 1989.

Sex and the Educative Role of the Analyst.  New York Center for Psychoanalytic Training.  New York, NY, Apr. 9, 1988.

Flemington-Raritan Regional Board of Education (1982-1991).  Chair, Personnel Comm. 1984-1991; Vice Pres. 1987-1991.  Chair, Negotiations Comm. 1986-1978; Chair, Teacher Recognition Comm. 1986-1991;  Chair, Superintendent Search Comm. 1988-1989. 

Board member, Hunterdon Central High School Foundation (1993-1994).

Board member, Flemington Free Public Library (1994-2001).

Board member, Anderson House (Halfway house for women in early recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, Whitehouse Station, NJ).  Secretary (1999-2005).

Rotary International, Flemington Rotary Club (1992-).  Committee chair.  Secretary (1995-1998), President (1998-99).  Board member (1995-2000; 2008-).

Copper Penny Players, Sergeantsville, NJ (amateur singing group: 1995-).

Three Blonde Chicks (professional singing group: 2001-).

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