Nancy McWilliams is Visiting Professor Emerita at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and has a private practice in Lambertville, NJ. She is author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (1994; rev. ed. 2011), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2004), and Psychoanalytic Supervision (2021), all with Guilford Press. She has edited, coauthored, or contributed to several other books, and is Associate Editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006; 2nd ed. 2017). A former president of APA’s Division of Psychoanalysis, she is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology.
Awards include Gradiva prizes for best clinical book (1999 and 2022), ABAP Annual Book Prize (2021), Erikson Scholar position (2016), Goethe Scholarship Award (2012), Rosalee Weiss award for contributions to practice (2004), Laughlin distinguished teacher award (2007), Hans Strupp Award for teaching, practice and writing (2014), and Division 39 awards for Leadership (2005), Scholarship (2012), and International Academic Excellence (2021). She has appeared in three APA videos of master therapists and was a plenary speaker for the 2015 APA convention.
A graduate of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, Dr. McWilliams is also affiliated with the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey and is a Trustee of the Austen Riggs Center. She is an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Moscow Psychoanalytic Society, Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Turin, Italy, and Warsaw Scientific Association for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Her writings are available in 20 languages, and she has taught in 30 countries.