Implications of Personality Differences for Psychotherapy and Supervision, 6.0 CE
Presented by Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D. 
Friday, April 26, 2024 from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST at UofL Shelby Campus -
450 N Whittington Parkway, Louisville, KY 40222 in Founders Union Building Room 218 A/B

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Appreciating the implications of personality differences for clinical and supervisory work has been a central concern for psychotherapists since the early part of the twentieth century. Everyone has a personality, whether or not it can be considered pathological. Ever since the 1980 revision of the DSM, personality issues have been relegated to a section of “disorder” categories and described by measurable traits. In the morning session, Dr. McWilliams will offer ten different lenses through which individuality has been viewed (temperament, attachment style, observed clinical pattern, defensive structure, affective organization, implicit cognition, drive tendencies, self-definition versus self-in-relation orientation, core relational theme, and level of severity). She will offer empirical support for each perspective and, using examples, discuss practical clinical implications of each angle of vision, especially that of level of severity. In the afternoon, she will examine the supervisory process, with emphasis on historical controversies, overall goals, ethical challenges and adaptations of supervision to the individualities of both supervisor and supervisee. There will be time for questions and discussion. This workshop fulfills the KRS 319 advanced supervision requirement for KBEP approved supervisors. Skill level: Advanced

Workshop Objectives

Based on the content of this workshop, attendees will be able to...

• Enumerate ten angles of vision by which personality has been conceptualized by mental health professionals and scholars.
• Differentiate between conceptualizing personality in terms of traits and construing it in terms of intersubjective themes.
• Apply that knowledge toward more nuanced formulations of the psychologies of their clients and supervisees.
• Describe eight areas in which experts of differing orientations agree about the treatment of borderline psychologies.
• Enumerate ten “vital signs” of progress in psychotherapy.
• Improve their work based on such formulations, especially in challenging professional circumstances.

About the Presenter

Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D., is Visiting Professor Emerita at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and has a private practice in Lambertville, NJ. She is 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.

Audience

This workshop is appropriate for Psychologists, Social Workers, Other Mental Health Professionals

Registration

****PLEASE NOTE: Due to a high registration demand and limited seating onsite registration for this event is LIMITED.