Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP)
Instructors
Frank Yeomans, M.D.
Diana Diamond, Ph.D.
November 15, 2016 – December 20, 2016
Tuesdays, 8:00 – 10:00 pm
Course Description
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is an evidence-based treatment for the severe personality disorders, particularly borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. TFP builds on a psychoanalytic object relations model. TFP combines a psychoanalytic approach with structure and limit-setting. The goals of the treatment are ambitious – personality change, as reflected in modifications in patients’ defensive structure and better functioning and satisfaction in their interpersonal and work lives, as well as symptom change. After taking this course, participants will improve their ability to treat patients with severe personality disorders.
Course Location: 122 East 42nd Street, Ste. 3200, NYC.
No class held on 11/22/2016.
Course Objectives
10 CME/CE credits offered.
Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
1. describe the concept of psychological structure and its relation to the specific symptoms of personality disorders organized at the borderline level
2. appreciate the role of identity integration in treating personality disorders organized at the borderline level
3. utilize strategies, tactics and techniques of transference-focused psychotherapy in the clinical setting
These articles are protected under relevant copyright regulations. They are available in the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute Electronic Reserve for your convenience, and for your personal use.
I. Background Reading
CLASS 1: November 15, 2016
REQUIRED READINGS
Yeomans FE, Clarkin JF, & Kernberg OF: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Clinical Guide. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Publishing: 2015 Chapters 1 and 2
A summary article: Yeomans FE, Diamond D. “Transference-Focused Psychotherapy and Borderline Personality Disorder” in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders: A Clinic Handbook, Eds. Clarkin JF, Fonagy P, Gabbard GO. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing; 2010.
Kernberg, O. Structural Diagnosis and The Structural Interview, in Severe Personality Disorders. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1984, Chapter 1
Kernberg, O. Structural Diagnosis and The Structural Interview, in Severe Personality Disorders. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1984, Chapter 2
II.
CLASS 2: November 29, 2016
REQUIRED READINGS
Freud, S. Observations on transference-love, in The Standard Edition of the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol 12. Edited by Strachey J. London, Hogarth Press, 1959, pp 157-171
CLASS 3: December 13, 2016
REQUIRED READINGS
Caligor E, Diamond D, Yeomans FE, Kernberg OF: The Interpretive Process in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Borderline Personality Pathology. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 57: 271-301, 2009
CLASS 4: December 20, 2016
REQUIRED READINGS
Diamond D, Yeomans FE, Levy K: Psychodynamic psychotherapy for narcissistic personality disorder, in The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatment. Edited by Campbell K, Miller J. New York, Wiley, 2011.
III. Research on TFP
CLASS 5: December 20, 2016
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Clarkin JF, Levy KN, Lenzenweger MF, Kernberg OF: Evaluating three treatments for borderline personality disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 164:922-928, 2007
Levy KN, Meehan KB, Kelly, KM, et al: Change in attachment patterns and reflective function in a randomized control trial of transference-focused psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74(6):1027-1040, 2006
Levy KN, Clarkin JF, Yeomans FE, et al: The mechanisms of change in the treatment of borderline personality disorder with transference focused psychotherapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62(4):481-501, 2006
Doering S, Hoerz S, Rentrop M, et al: Transference-focused psychotherapy v. treatment by community therapists for BPD: randomized controlled trial. Brit J Psychiatry 196:389-395, 2010