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    • November 07, 2026
    • 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
    • Carondelet Center 1890 Randolph Ave St Paul, MN 55105
    • 125
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    Join us for a day with Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP as she shares her expertise about the nuances of psychoanalytic supervision. The conference will also include Dr. McWilliams' live consultation of a supervision case. We recommend reading Dr. McWilliams' book, Psychoanalytic Supervision, in advance of the conference.

    Morning refreshments will be served at 9:30 am for time to connect with colleagues.

    The program will begin at 10 am.

    Carondelet Center

    1890 Randolph Ave

    St Paul, MN 55105

    Breakfast and lunch will be provided

    About our speaker, Nancy McWilliams 

    Nancy McWilliams is Visiting Professor Emerita at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and has a private practice in Lambertville, NJ. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (1994; rev. ed. 2011), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2004), and Psychoanalytic Supervision (2021), all with Guilford Press. She has edited or contributed to several other books and is Associate Editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006, Lingiardi & McWilliams, 2017). She is a former president of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association and is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology. A graduate of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, Dr. McWilliams is also affiliated with the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey. She is on the Board of Trustees of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA.

    Awards include the Gradiva prize (1999), the Goethe Scholarship Award (2012), the Rosalee Weiss award for contributions to practice (2004), the Laughlin distinguished teacher award (2007), the Hans Strupp Award for teaching, practice, and writing (2014), and the Division 39 Leadership (2005), Scholarship (2012), and International (2020) awards. She has given commencement addresses for the Yale University School of Medicine and the Smith College School for Social Work. The American Psychological Association chose her to represent psychoanalytic therapy in a 2011 remake of the classic film, “Three Approaches to Psychotherapy,” and asked her to be a plenary speaker for the 2015 APA convention in Toronto.

    Dr. McWilliams is an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Turin, Italy, and the Warsaw Scientific Association for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. She has taught in thirty countries, and her writings have been translated into twenty languages.

    Dr. McWilliams specializes in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and supervision; the relationship between diagnosis and treatment; alternatives to DSM and ICD 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.

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