Nancy McWilliams on Mental Health, Transference and Dissociation

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.3K 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.

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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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