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McWilliams, Nancy (2011)
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Second Edition: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process. New York: The Guilford Press
About the Instructors:
Ernie Braasch, MD is a past president of the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society. He did his adult psychiatry residency training at John Umstead Hospital and Duke Medical Center. He is a graduate of the UNC-Duke
Psychoanalytic Education Program and training and supervising analyst of PECC. Currently, he is in private practice in Raleigh. Recently, he has been integrating mindfulness and EMDR into his work with patients. Psychoanalytically, he has always integrated classical, self psychological, and relational models of understanding patients.
Mardy Ireland, PhD is a psychoanalyst and psychologist who has pursued the working dialectic between the British and French schools of psychoanalysis since the early 1990's. Drawing on this dialectic, she is the author of Reconceiving Women (1993), The Art of the Subject (2003), and a contributor to Between Winnicott and Lacan: A Clinical Engagement (2011). She has a clinical practice in Raleigh.
Course Objectives:
Class participants will be able to:
Formulate a preliminary diagnosis and goals for treatment.
Revise a diagnostic formulation and treatment strategy as clinical work unfolds.
Consider the aims and technique of a first interview.
Consider the importance of patient-therapist ?match?.
Assess factors that cannot be changed that set limits to the clinical work, such as genetic and medical situations.
Discuss defense mechanisms and be able to assess the patient?s defensive structure.
Assess the patient's range of and capacity for affective expression.
Describe the types of character organization as described by Nancy McWilliams.
Assess and recognize the psycho-social factors which contribute to the client?s psychodynamic assessment and treatment recommendations.
For additional information please contact:
Lisa Long, Administrator
Phone: (919) 490-3212
Email: [email protected]
CE-CME Information:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 24 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
The North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for programs that meet NBCC requirements. The North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
If you have special needs, please contact the Administrator.
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