TFP Institute Italy – PDLab
Every year
TFP Didactic Training Graduate
Italian- Hybrid
20 hours of supervision will be required
TFP Institute Italy – PDLab
certified hours
Every year
Italian- Hybrid
20 hours of supervision will be required
Spanish – Online
Two days session a month for six months
TFP Institute Bilbao – Fundación OMIE – Fundación Vasca
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Swiss Society of TFP
SEMINAR
November 4 and 5, 2022
French – Hybrid (Lausanne)
Two day sessions eight hours each time
French – Hybrid
Swiss Society of TFP
English to Chinese translation
TFP Group China
Institute of Personality Studies and Development
On Wednesdays, for three months, ten sessions of 90 minutes each
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English to Chinese translation
Si Chuan He Guang Clinical Psychology Institute
Two sets of four full days
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English to Chinese translation
Si Chuan He Guang Clinical Psychology Institute
Dear members, my name is Diana Téllez and I am in charge of communication for the TFP training events. Contact me if you what all our members to know what you are planning.
Diana Téllez has worked as a Psychotherapist with a psychodynamic approach since 2005, Obtained a master’s degree in psychotherapy of children, adolescents, and adults in 2009 and a PhD in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy by the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association in 2012.
She’s a Mexican Teacher-Supervisor certified by the ISTFP, has clinical practice in TFP since 2011. She emerged as a founding member of Grupo TFP Mexico, has knowledge in certified mentalization. In addition to experience with attachment theory, she’s certified as a reliable interviewer / evaluator in the adult attachment interview (AAI) accredited by the University of Berkeley and a certified educator/facilitator from Circle of Security, institution based in Washington.
Since 2016 she is responsible for the Psychology Department at a public hospital part of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) in Mexico City.
On the other hand, Diana Téllez, has been part of the Academic Committee of Mexico since 2016, involved in the organization and delivery of multiple training and supervision in TFP, with topics such as TFP Basics, TFP applied to the TNP, training for the application and qualification of the STIPO-R.
Her interest in teaching has led her to lecture at different universities and institutions, such as the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Monterrey’s Institute of Technology (ITESM) and the National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente (INPRF).
At the same time, she’s been the main point of contact for public relations, social media and promotion of Grupo TFP México, as such she’s been in direct contact with TFP stakeholders from other regions.
Dear colleagues and ISTFP members,
We are happy to welcome you to the 7th ISTFP conference. We hope that this biennial “meeting of minds” will provide you with a memorable learning experience. Again this year, because of the COVID Pandemic, we cannot meet in person. We will not be able to, like in previous editions of the event, engage in meaningful human interactions. Since that important part of the event will be missing, let’s make the most of this, like we did two years ago, and look forward to seeing each other again in two years… for real.
I am Theophilus Kok and, like some of you, I was not there in the early ISTFP Conferences. That is why the Public Relations and Communication Committee and I thought it would be a good idea to tell you about the origin of the event. For those of you that have been here since the beginning, we thought that it would be important, after 3 difficult years, to remind ourselves where we come from and go forward with renewed energy and intent.
As you all know, personality disorders used to present severe treatment challenges in psychiatry, however, during the 1970s and 1980s along with the publishing of Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism (1975), Severe Personality Disorders (1984), and the first treatment manual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy of Borderline Patients (1989), Otto. F. Kernberg and his team at the Personality Disorders Institute of Cornell University in New York have developed the Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.
Theophilus Kok is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in private practice in Hangzhou, China. He graduated from Zhejiang University in 2006 and started his training in TFP in 2018. He is the founder and director of the Institute of Personality Studies and Development, and the leader of the Personality Disorders Working Group in Kangning Hospital affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University. His interest is to treat patients with personality disorders and as the coordinator of TFP training in China, he aims to introduce TFP to more local clinicians.
Esteemed colleagues and ISTFP members,
My name is Mathieu Norton-Poulin and together with Veronica Steiner I have the pleasure to chair the ISTFP Public Relations and Communication Committee. It is with great enthusiasm that I write today in the first newsletter of our society. I am proud to belong to a group of exceptional professionals who dedicate their lives to ease the suffering of people burdened by personality disorders. I hope that the actions of our committee will help support us all towards that goal.
Before sharing our mission and objectives, I would like to tell you the story of our team. But don’t worry, I will keep it short!
At the beginning we were just six strangers, all we knew about each other was that Dr. Frank Yeomans and Dr. Luis Valenciano thought we’d be interested in working together.
Co-Chair, Canada
Co-Chair, Chili
Member, Mexico
Member, USA
Member, Peru
Member, China
As you can see, since the very start, we represented the richness of our society. Harvesting the strengths and benefits of real diversity took time and intention. We had to nurture small and continuous interactions between each other on every possible media. We stayed neutral, curious, open and reflective to each other, following TFP values. With each interaction our differences became known, while at the same time, our group identity grew and started to bind us. We now rely on each other with knowledge and reciprocal appreciation, hoping to inspire our experience of enrichment in diversity in all members of the ISTFP.
Mathieu Norton-Poulin is a psychologist in private practice in Gatineau, Québec. He graduated from Laval University in 1995 and started his training in transference focused psychotherapy in 2005. Member of the TFP-Québec group he as been practicing has a certified TFP therapist for the last 9 years. Since 2009 he organized several training events and has given lectures on TFP for medical doctors and college students. He maintains a blog where he write, in plain words, articles to explain TFP to the general public.