Nancy McWilliams on Mental Health, Transference and Dissociation
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast
David J Puder
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of the podcast, I speak with Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D, a renowned psychologist-psychoanalyst. She has authored several books, including, Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (1994; rev. ed. 2011), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2004), and Psychoanalytic Supervision (2021). She was also the Associate Editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006; 2nd ed. 2017).
We discuss different aspects of mental health and how it pertains to relationships. We also discuss qualities that make a strong therapist and the ideas of dissociation and transference in therapy.
By listening to this episode, you can earn 1.5 Psychiatry CME Credits.
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. Pewter and Dr. McWilliams have no conflicts of interest to announce. |
| 0:20.0 | All right, welcome back to the podcast I am joined today with Nancy McWilliams. |
| 0:25.3 | She has a PhD as a psychoanalyst. |
| 0:29.2 | She practices therapy and supervision in New Jersey and she has authored several of my |
| 0:36.3 | favorite books. |
| 0:37.3 | Probably the books that I have bought the most for young professionals for their education. |
| 0:43.7 | The books include psychoanalytic diagnosis, psychoanalytic case formulation, psychoanalytic |
| 0:50.2 | psychotherapy and psychoanalytic supervision. |
| 0:54.3 | And I would say if I was to give you an award, now I read your 18 page CV which is, it's |
| 1:01.6 | like I was reading it and I was like wow, can I, can I like travel as much as you some |
| 1:08.2 | day? |
| 1:09.2 | Oh yeah, that is a wonderful feature of my life, one that was completely unexpected. |
| 1:18.7 | So wonderful. |
| 1:19.7 | My award to you would be if I was to give you another award on top of all your awards |
| 1:24.1 | you've received is maintaining the transfer of wisdom from authors past who have decades |
| 1:32.0 | and decades of experience of real life seeing patients, right? |
| 1:35.8 | So deep, qualitative research that they have done through deep case series, right? |
| 1:43.2 | So transferring that wisdom to the next generation through your books, that would be my award. |
| 1:49.7 | I would happily accept that award because that's what I've been trying to do for my whole |
| 1:54.3 | career is pass on clinical wisdom which often gets devalued by academic people because |
| 2:02.5 | it is, you know, insufficient. |
| 2:06.0 | We do need research as well, but there is tremendous wisdom in clinical experience. |
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