psycgrandrounds SUNY Upstate Grand Rounds Reminder: When Ungrieved Sorrow Pervades Personality: Working with Depressive and Self-Defeating Patterns 3/19/26 *VIRUTAL ONLY*

Pamela Le LeP at upstate.edu
Thu Mar 19 09:20:12 EDT 2026


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Our next Grand Rounds at the Department of Psychiatry SUNY Upstate will take place on:

Thursday, March 19th, from 12:30 pm until 2:00 pm via Zoom only.
   TITLE: When Ungrieved Sorrow Pervades Personality: Working with Depressive and Self-Defeating Patterns
SPEAKER:  Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP, Psychoanalyst, Visiting Professor Emerita, Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology

*APPROVED Psychologist, Social Work & LMHC CEUs*
Please fill out the attached evaluation forms and return to Pamela Le@ LeP at upstate.edu within 30 days of the presentation

To receive continuing education credits, you must register using the following link: https://www.upstate.edu/cme/online-register.php .
Registration opens at 10:00 a.m. on the day of Grand Rounds and remains open through the following Monday.
DESCRIPTION: Situational stresses interact with personality patterns, presenting clinicians with complicated combinations of grief, mourning, and depressive and self-defeating (also called masochistic) dynamics. Because neither “Depressive Personality Disorder” nor “Self-Defeating Personality Disorder” is included in the DSM or ICD, official taxonomies offer little help to therapists in distinguishing between various painful self-states and framing psychotherapy accordingly. Dr. McWilliams will differentiate conceptually between depression and mourning, between anaclitic and introjective depression, and between depressive and self-defeating personality patterns, emphasizing the therapeutic implications of such distinctions.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Following this activity, the participants should be able to:
1. Differentiate normal sadness and grief from clinical depression.
2. Distinguish between depressive and self-defeating personality styles and disorders.
3. Articulate two clinical implications of these distinction.

Faculty disclosure: Dr. McWilliams has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

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Pamela Le

Educational Coordinator

Grand Rounds & REACH Coordinator

Upstate Medical Psychiatry

719 Harrison St. Bldg TU4

Syracuse, NY 13210

Phone (315)464-7185

Fax (315) 464-3282
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