Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP, 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 all editions of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006, 2017, 2026). 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 more than 20 languages, and she has taught in person or remotely in more than 50 countries.
Michael Garrett, MD, is Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. He is on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with the New York University Medical Center. His residency training in Psychiatry was at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center. He currently teaches and supervises clinicians doing psychotherapy for psychosis and consults regularly to several first-episode-for-psychosis teams in the United States and abroad. He has a particular interest in the integration of cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic treatment in the psychotherapy of psychosis, as detailed in his 2019 book, Psychotherapy for Psychosis: Integrating Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic Treatments (Guilford Press). His most recent paper, relevant to this workshop, is “Links between trauma and psychotic symptoms: Integrating cognitive behavioral and neuropsychoanalytic models of psychosis.” Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, and Practice (open access).