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McWilliams, Nancy Riley was born on October 26, 1945 in Abington, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Howard Gordon and Millicent Riley.
( This acclaimed clinical guide and widely adopted text ...)
This acclaimed clinical guide and widely adopted text has filled a key need in the field since its original publication. Nancy McWilliams makes psychoanalytic personality theory and its implications for practice accessible to practitioners of all levels of experience. She explains major character types and demonstrates specific ways that understanding the patient's individual personality structure can influence the therapist's focus and style of intervention. Guidelines are provided for developing a systematic yet flexible diagnostic formulation and using it to inform treatment. Highly readable, the book features a wealth of illustrative clinical examples. New to This Edition *Reflects the ongoing development of the author's approach over nearly two decades. *Incorporates important advances in attachment theory, neuroscience, and the study of trauma. *Coverage of the contemporary relational movement in psychoanalysis. Winner--Canadian Psychological Association's Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship
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( This is the first text to come along in many years that...)
This is the first text to come along in many years that makes psychoanalytic personality theory and its implications for practice accessible to beginning practitioners. The last book of its kind, which was published more than 20 years ago, predated the development of such significant concepts as borderline syndromes, narcissistic pathology, dissociative disorders and self-defeating personality. Contemporary students often react with bewilderment to the language of pioneering analysts like Reich and Fenichel and, since 1980, the various volumes of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) have reflected an empirical-descriptive orientation that deliberately eschews psychodynamic assumptions. Consequently, today's therapist in training may have little exposure to the rich clinical and theoretical history behind each disorder mentioned in DSM; to psychoanalytic expertise with widely recognized character patterns not mentioned in DSM, such as depressive and hypomanic psychologies, high-functioning schizoid personalities, and hysterical personalities; or to a comprehensive, theoretically sophisticated rationale that links assessment to treatment. Filling the need for a text that clearly lays out the conceptual heritage that psychoanalytic practitioners take for granted, this important new volume explicates the major clinically important character types and suggests how an appreciation of the patients' individual personality structure should influence the therapist's focus and style of intervention. Dispensing with the dense jargon that often discourages people from learning, Nancy McWilliams writes in a lucid, personal manner that demystifies psychodynamic theory and practice. Innumerable clinical vignettes are presented with humor, candor, and compassion, bringing abstract concepts to life. Comprehensive in scope, Psychoanalytic Diagnosis will be valued by seasoned clinicians and students alike. Psychodynamically oriented readers will find it an excellent introduction to psychoanalytic diagnostic thinking. For those identified with other approaches, it will foster psychoanalytic literacy, providing them with the capacity to better understand the approaches of their analytically oriented colleagues.
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McWilliams, Nancy Riley was born on October 26, 1945 in Abington, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Howard Gordon and Millicent Riley.
AB, Oberlin College, 1967. Master of Science, Rutgers University, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, 1976.
Director Camp Edith Newell, 1968, 69. Lecturer, instructor, co-adjunct professor Brooklyn College, 1970, Fordham University, 1970, Livingston College, 1972-1979, Rutgers College, 1973-1974, Douglas College, 1975. Mental health clinician Rutgers Mental Health Center, College Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey, Piscataway, 1973-1974.
Private practice psychotherapy, Flemington, New Jersey, since 1978. Visiting professor Graduate School Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, since 1981, supervisor, since 1978.
( This is the first text to come along in many years that...)
( This acclaimed clinical guide and widely adopted text ...)
(jacket is great condition as well as pages. In great shape!)
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Vice president Flemington-Raritan Board Education, 1987-1991. Board directors Flemington Free Public Library., since 1994, Anderson House Halfway House. Member American Psychological Association, National Psychological Association Psychoanalysis, Institute Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey (board directors since 1989), Association Advancement Psychology, Rotary International.
Married Wilson Carey McWilliams, September 16, 1966;children— Susan Jane, Helen Elizabeth. Children: Susan Jane, Helen Elizabeth.