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Addressing Grief and Mourning in the Post-Pandemic Years

  • Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center 2460 Fairmount Boulevard, Suite 312 Cleveland Heights, OH 44106 United States (map)

A Scientific Meeting presented by Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D., ABPP with Respondent, Lisa Damour, Ph.D.

Event Price: Event is free.CE fee is $10 for CPC/HP members and non HP/CPC students, $25 for nonmembers who are not students. HP and CPC students and candidates receive CEs for free.

Light cocktail reception 6 - 6:30 p.m. at the Center before the presentation.

Continued Education (CEU/CME): 1.5 credits.

Attendance: This is a hybrid event - in person and online attendance is available.

Description

In the wake of the recent pandemic, therapists struggle to help patients with painful losses and challenges. Situational stresses interact with personality patterns, presenting therapists with complicated combinations of grief, mourning, depression, and anxiety at a frequency that seems unprecedented. Dr. McWilliams will comment on the psychological problems facing us collectively in the current era, with an emphasis on the experiences of younger people.  

Learning Objectives

After this presentation, participants will be able:

  1. To articulate three differences between normal grief and clinical depression; 

  2. To identify three losses that may require a mourning process at the societal level.

Nancy McWilliams is Visiting Professor Emerita of clinical psychology at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and practices in Lambertville, New Jersey. She is author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (1994, rev. ed. 2011), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2004) and Psychoanalytic Supervision (2021) and is associate editor of both editions of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006, 2017). A former president of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, she has been featured in three APA videos of master clinicians. She is on the Board of Trustees of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA. Her books are available in 20 languages, and she has taught in 30 countries.

Dr. Lisa Damour is the author of three New York Times best sellers: Untangled, Under Pressure, and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers. She co-hosts the Ask Lisa podcast, works in collaboration with UNICEF, and is recognized as a thought leader by the American Psychological Association. Dr. Damour is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and CBS News.

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