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Self Pathology and Personality Disorder: Course Day 2

This 2-day workshop—on April 26 and May 17—will outline current gaps and lack of a consensus in understanding the self before reviewing an evolutionary approach to selfhood. The course will describe the role of the self in personality disorder and different forms of self pathology, outline the...

Self Pathology and Personality Disorder: Course Day 1

This 2-day workshop—on April 26 and May 17—will outline current gaps and lack of a consensus in understanding the self before reviewing an evolutionary approach to selfhood. The course will describe the role of the self in personality disorder and different forms of self pathology, outline the...

Do’s and Don’ts in Treating Narcissistic Personality Disorder

This 1-day workshop will present evidence-based information on principles, strategies, and interventions associated with change in patients who struggle with pathological narcissism, including narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Offered by the Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute at McLean...

Mentalization-Based Treatment Basic Training: Online Course for Clinicians

This course is made up of 3 days of live, instructor-led content and 21 hours of self-guided content. Participants learn how to implement mentalization-based treatment (MBT) techniques within their clinical practice as a specialist treatment. Offered by the Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute...

Staff Profile: Joan Wheelis, MD

Joan Wheelis MD, is a senior consultant at the Gunderson Residence and the Gunderson Outpatient Program. An assistant professor of psychiatry, part-time, at Harvard Medical School and on the faculty of the combined MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program, she is a training and...

Staff Profile: Mary C. Zanarini, EdD

Mary C. Zanarini, EdD, began her career studying the phenomenology and etiology of borderline personality disorder (BPD), finding that it is a valid psychiatric disorder that has a clear-cut clinical presentation, can be delimited from other near-neighbor disorders, runs in families, and has a...

Staff Profile: D. Bradford Reich, MD

D. Bradford Reich, MD, has been an attending psychiatrist at McLean Hospital since 1990. Working as an inpatient attending from 1990-2007, he had positions in the psychotic disorders and dissociative disorders and trauma programs. Between 2010 and 2012, he served as an attending psychiatrist at the...

Staff Profile: Munya Hayek, MD

Munya Hayek, MD, is triple board-certified in child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, and pediatrics. She is the associate medical director of the Belmont Adolescent Partial Hospital Program at McLean Hospital and serves as associate program director of the MGH/McLean Child and Adolescent...

Staff Profile: Anna Precht, PsyD

Anna Precht, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and a senior clinical consultant at McLean’s Arlington School. She has extensive experience treating adults and adolescents using DBT in individual, group, and milieu modalities. Previously at McLean, she worked closely with colleagues to develop and...

Staff Profile: George W. Smith, LICSW

George W. Smith, LICSW, graduated from Smith College School for Social Work in 1976 and has spent his entire career at McLean. He did 14 years of inpatient work, primarily focused on family therapy. In 1990, he became the program director of McLean’s first residential program for personality...

Staff Profile: Julia Lustick, MD

Julia Lustick, MD is a staff psychiatrist on the Short Term Unit and in the Gunderson Outpatient Program for patients with borderline personality disorder and other severe personality disorders. Dr. Lustick is psychodynamically oriented and works with individuals, couples, groups, and families. She...

Staff Profile: Jodie O’Malley, MSW, LICSW

Jodie O’Malley, LICSW, is a senior clinical team manager and individual and group psychotherapist at McLean Hospital. Drawing from over two decades of experience, Ms. O’Malley utilizes evidenced-based psychotherapies, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy...

Staff Profile: Brian W. Boyle, MD

Brian W. Boyle, MD, is a staff psychiatrist at McLean Hospital’s Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics Program, where he cares for patients with treatment-resistant depression using ketamine and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). He is interested in the treatment of patients who struggle with both mood and...

Staff Profile: Jason G. Jones, MD

Jason G. Jones, MD, is a psychiatrist at the Gunderson Outpatient Program and the Clinical Evaluation Center at McLean Hospital. He specializes in psychodynamic individual and family therapy with patients with personality disorders. He is a graduate of Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute’s...

Staff Profile: Leila Guller, PhD

Leila Guller, PhD, is a therapist at the 3East Residential Programs. Dr. Guller’s clinical work is primarily with young people struggling with borderline personality disorder and risky behaviors. Her research background is in adolescent addictive behaviors. Dr. Guller completed her graduate training...

Staff Profile: Elizabeth A. Bailey, PsyD

Elizabeth A. Bailey, PsyD, is a staff psychologist at McLean’s Child and Adolescent OCD Institute. She specializes in the use of evidence-based treatments, including dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), to treat a variety of clinical presentations. Dr. Bailey has...

Staff Profile: Maria Blum, MSW, LICSW

Maria Blum, MSW, LICSW, is a clinical team manager at the Klarman Eating Disorders Center at McLean Hospital. She provides individual and group therapy to residents of the program. During the course of her career, she has also worked extensively with individuals with borderline personality disorder...

Staff Profile: Maggie Gorraiz, PhD

Maggie Gorraiz, PhD, is a child and adolescent psychologist and a DBT-Linehan certified DBT clinician. She has extensive experience in providing assessment and treatment of children and adolescents struggling with problems related to emotion dysregulation, including suicidal and self-harming...