NANCY MCWILLIAMS, SHELLY BACH & JAY GREENBERG TEACH

ON NARCISSISM

A clinical exploration of shame, grandiosity, emptiness, vulnerability,
and the struggle to feel real. A rare masterclass from the leading
minds of psychoanalysis.

COURSE OVERVIEW

Beyond the DSM

This course approaches narcissism not as a stereotype or label, but as a spectrum of struggles around self-esteem, dependency, shame, emotional aliveness, and human connection. Through lectures and conversations with Nancy McWilliams, Sheldon Bach, and Jay Greenberg, clinicians learn how narcissistic dynamics develop, how they appear differently across patients, and how treatment works over time through relationship, trust, and emotional understanding.  

 

 

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS

Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D.

Nancy McWilliams is a Visiting Professor Emerita of applied psychology at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. She is the author of three classic textbooks that have become the gold standard in clinical training: Psychodynamic Diagnosis, Psychodynamic Case Formulation, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Her work has been translated into over 20 languages and is used in training programs worldwide. A former president of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association, she has received numerous awards for her contributions to clinical psychology, including the Hans H. Strupp Award and the Robert S. Wallerstein Settlement Fund Award for Psychotherapy Research.

Sheldon Bach, Ph.D.

Sheldon Bach was Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association. The author of several influential books, including Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process and Getting from Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process, Bach trained and supervised generations of clinicians over more than five decades at NYU, IPTAR, the Contemporary Freudian Society, and psychoanalytic institutes throughout the United States and abroad. In 2007, he received the Heinz Hartmann Award for “outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.” His writings on narcissistic vulnerability, transference, therapeutic love, and the analyst’s emotional presence remain widely taught internationally.

Jay Greenberg, Ph.D.

Jay R. Greenberg is a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, and one of the central figures in the development of relational psychoanalysis. He is a Faculty Member, Training Analyst, and Supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute and served for many years as Editor of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. Greenberg is best known as the co-author of Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory, a landmark text that reshaped contemporary psychoanalytic thinking and helped establish the relational movement within psychoanalysis. His writings on therapeutic action, analytic neutrality, conflict, interpretation, and the analyst’s participation have had a major influence on modern clinical theory and practice. A recipient of the Mary S. Sigourney Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis, Greenberg has also received the Distinguished Scientific Award from the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association.

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WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR

Psychotherapists

Deepen your clinical skills and manage the complex transference/countertransference dynamics inherent in treating narcissism.

Couple therapists

Establish a foundational understanding of psychoanalytic theory through the lens of character organization.

Graduate Students & Trainees

Gain new frameworks for helping trainees navigate the 'impasse' and technical challenges of difficult cases.

Psychoanalytic & Psychodynamic Therapists

Explore the intersection of traditional psychoanalysis and contemporary object relations theory.

A rare opportunity to study narcissism beyond diagnosis.

 

Join three of the most influential thinkers of our time in a definitive exploration of the narcissistic self.

 

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