Applied Transference Focused Psychotherapy

We often wonder about the future of Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) and the challenges that lie ahead, as well as the directions we would like to pursue. The paper featured this month examines the recent developments of our technique, observing how specific principles of TFP have naturally met the needs of the broader community of mental health providers.

Over the past four decades, there has been a gradual increase in attention given to the personality component of various pathologies and pathological or quasi-pathological circumstances. For instance, the study of pathological dynamics in large groups.

The author of the paper, Richard Hersh MD, is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, certified TFP supervisor, and a well-known figure for his contributions in expanding the applications of TFP to different clinical settings. This includes settings that do not primarily focus on psychotherapy-based interventions. You can find more information about Dr. Richard Hersh at this link: https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/profile/richard-g-hersh-md

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Silvia Bernardi

Silvia Bernardi, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University. After graduating from medical school in Florence Italy in 2006, Silvia emigrated to the USA to work intensively in neuroscience research, studying the bases of the interaction between emotions and cognition. Silvia completed her residency in Psychiatry at Columbia and has since practiced privately in New York. She trained in Transference Focused Psychotherapy and continues to see patients for medication management and psychotherapy while conducting her research to unlock further knowledge to support the biological underpinnings of TFP and borderline personality disorder.

Glauco Valdivieso

Glauco Valdivieso is a Peruvian psychiatrist and psychotherapist who lives and works in Lima, Peru. He has been a psychiatrist since 2018, graduated from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and trained at the Hospital Nacional Victor Larco Herrera. He has training in Cognitive Psychotherapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Mentalization Based Therapy and Transference Focused Therapy, currently in clinical supervision. He is the co-founder and medical director of the Peruvian Institute for the Study and Comprehensive Approach to Personality (IPEP) and of the TFP PERU therapeutic division. He is the founder of the Personality Disorders Chapter of the Peruvian Psychiatric Association (APP) and head of the mental health unit at the Villa El Salvador Emergency Hospital. He is also co-founder and member of the editorial team of the Latin American Journal of Personality together with the Argentine Institute for the Study of Personality and its Disorders (IAEPD). His clinical interests are the treatment of personality disorders and mood disorders, and he wishes to contribute to research on TFP.