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Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is an evidence-based psychoanalytic treatment for personality disorders. Although originally designed to treat patients with borderline personality disorder, the treatment has been extended to the range of patients with a "borderline personality organization," including narcissistic personality disorder, as well as for patients with higher-level personality pathology. Applications of TFP principles to clinical work with adolescent, inpatients, groups, and couples are currently in development. The program will provide an overview of the entirety of TFP as a treatment, beginning with the object-relations model that informs assessment and diagnosis of personality organization, and that in turn guides treatment planning (sharing a diagnosis, treatment "contracting," and setting the modified analytic frame). The array of TFP interventions will be reviewed, as well as typical treatment complications and how they are addressed in TFP, e.g., severe acting out/treatment-interfering behaviors, pathological narcissism, counter-transference-management. The program will weave case material into each section in order to ground the didactic material and to help convey they ways in which the treatment can be implemented with patients with varied diagnostic presentations and across the spectrum of severity.
About the Speaker:
Barry L. Stern, is Clinical Associate Professor in the Psychiatry Department of the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and an Associate Director, and the Chair of Psychology at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where completed psychoanalytic training and has been on the faculty for the past 20 years. Dr. Stern is also a Senior Fellow at the Personality Disorders Institute, where he writes, teaches, and trains on topics related to personality disorders and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), including the assessment and treatment of borderline and narcissistic pathology, and the extension of TFP to work with couples.
