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2025 Psychotherapy Roadshow in Australia
Learn from world leading clinicians and authors
Nancy McWilliams and Michael Garrett
Dr Michael Garrett Online Seminar Series
(with optional Case Consultation Group)
Psych Ascend is proud to bring the invaluable clinical expertise of Professor Michael Garrett back to Australian audiences. In a series of four dynamic live 2-hour seminars, participants will delve into the integration of cognitive-behavioral therapy and psychodynamic techniques—an approach that provides a compelling and effective framework for supporting individuals living with psychosis.
In an exciting and rare opportunity for Australian audiences, attendees of the Seminar Series will have the opportunity to sign up for a case consultation group where they will receive direct clinical supervision from Professor Garrett.
Dates:* Tuesday 22nd July, 5th Aug, 19th Aug, 2nd Sept
Time: 10am-12pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
*Recordings available on request for 7 days post-event for those unable to attend live online event
Nancy McWilliams
Dr Nancy McWilliams has taught in thirty countries, and her writings have been translated into twenty languages. She is author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (1994; rev. ed. 2011), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2004), and Psychoanalytic Supervision (2021). She has edited or contributed to several other books, and is Associate Editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006, Lingiardi & McWilliams, 2017). 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.
Dr McWilliams specializes in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and supervision; the relationship between diagnosis and treatment; alternatives to DSM and ICD diagnostic conventions; integration of feminist theory and psychoanalytic knowledge; the application of psychoanalytic understanding to the problems of diverse clinical populations; altruism; narcissism; and trauma and dissociative disorders.
Michael Garrett
Michael Garrett, MD is currently Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. He is also on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) affiliated with NYU Medical Center in New York City. He received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his residency training in Psychiatry at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center. He currently teaches and supervises clinicians doing psychotherapy for psychosis and is a consultant to several first-episode for psychosis teams in the United States and elsewhere. He has a particular interest in the integration of cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic treatment in the psychotherapy of psychosis, as detailed in a Chapter in Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry 11th Ed titled Individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis, and in his recent book, Garrett, M. (2019) Psychotherapy for Psychosis: Integrating Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic Treatments. Guilford Press/New York.
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