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Nancy McWilliams

Nancy McWilliams, PhD teaches at the Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology at Rutgers, and is the author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process, Psychoanalytic Case Formulation, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide, and is Associate Editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM). She is Past President of the Division of […]

Nancy McWilliams, PhD teaches at the Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology at Rutgers, and is the author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process, Psychoanalytic Case Formulation, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide, and is Associate Editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM). She is Past President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association, Consulting Editor of the Psychoanalytic Review, and on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology.

Dr. McWilliams has written widely on personality structure and personality disorders, psychodiagnosis, sex and gender, trauma, intensive psychotherapy, and contemporary challenges to the humanistic tradition in psychotherapy. Her books have been translated into twelve languages, and she has lectured widely both nationally and internationally.

Her book on case formulation received the Gradiva Award for best psychoanalytic clinical book of 1999; in 2004 she was given the Rosalee Weiss Award for contributions to practice by the Division of Independent Practitioners of the American Psychological Association; and in 2006 she was made an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

She has a private practice in Flemington, New Jersey.