This lecture is in English. You find the abstract in English below.
Föreläsaren tar sin utgångspunkt i den mänskliga strävan av att offra sig för ideal och föreställningar om något högre gott, för att utifrån ett kliniskt terapeutiskt perspektiv utforska när och hur detta blir självdestruktivt och patologiskt. Hur kan dessa frågor gestalta sig och arbetas med i ett terapirum? Detta utforskas genom klinisk psykoanalys, personlighetspsykologi, anknytningsteori, neurovetenskap och föreläsarens egna fallstudier. Föreläsningen är en del av föreläsningsserien 'Truth and knowledge' som arrangeras under våren 2026.
Medverkande
Nancy McWilliams, professor emeritus vid Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology i New Jersey och tidigare president för APA:s Division of Psychoanalysis.
Plats
Anti bokhandel i Malmö
Övrig information
Föreläsningen hålls på engelska. Föreläsningen är kostnadsfri och ingen föranmälan krävs.
Föreläsningen hålls samarbete med Aning - Förening för Filosofi och Psykoanalys och ges med stöd från Folkuniversitetsföreningen.
English
Therapists are often frustrated by patients they see as somehow essentially dishonest with themselves. One such group includes individuals with self-defeating patterns, who are usually reluctant to look at their own contributions to their recurrent difficulties. “Characterological masochism,” or “aggrieved” or “self-defeating” schemas have been a concern of therapists for decades, through many paradigm shifts. But because "self-defeating personality disorder is absent from the DSM and ICD, our official taxonomies give clinicians little guidance in addressing recurrent self-sabotaging behavior. When do certain powerful human strivings - to surrender to something greater than the self, to sacrifice one’s own well-being for a higher good - become pathological? How can therapists help pathologically self-defeating clients, especially those who rationalize behavior their in terms of commitment to high ideals? Dr. McWilliams will explore these questions via the literature from clinical psychoanalysis, personality psychology, empirical work in attachment and neuroscience, and her own case material.
Nancy McWilliams is Visiting Professor Emerita at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and has a private practice in Lambertville, New Jersey. 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. McWilliams is on the Board of Trustees of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge and an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Turin, Italy, and the Warsaw Scientific Association for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. She has written extensively on topics such as psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the relationship between diagnosis and treatment, integration of feminist theory and psychoanalytic knowledge and much more. McWilliams is Associate Editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual . She have received multiple awards for her writings and have been translated into twenty languages.
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