December 10 and 11, 2022 – Online
Spanish – Online
TFP Group Mexico
Twelve sessions of two hours each time
Basic course in TFP
January 21, 2023 – Online
Spanish – Online
TFP Group Mexico
Twelve sessions of two hours each time
TFP applied to Narcissistic Personality Disorder
January 21, 2023 – Online
Spanish – Online
TFP Group Mexico
Twelve sessions of two hours each time
Master talk: Conceptualization of Personality Disorders
January 27-28, 2023 – Online
Spanish
Instructor: Dr. Otto Kernberg
Four sessions at two hours each time
TFP Uruguay
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The 7th Berlin Forum Transference Focused Psychotherapy – TFP and Addiction
TFP Institute Berlin
November 18, 2023
The 7th Berlin Forum Transference Focused Psychotherapy – TFP and Addiction
German- In person (Berlin)
Stefan Anft, Iris Baisch,Marion Braun and colleagues
Email your application by following the registration link
TFP Didactic Training Graduate
TFP Institute Italy – PDLab
Every year
TFP Didactic Training Graduate
Italian- Hybrid
20 hours of supervision will be required
Training in Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP)
November 11 and 12, 2022
Spanish – Online
Two days session a month for six months
TFP Institute Bilbao – Fundación OMIE – Fundación Vasca
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Part A. Fundamental concepts in TFP
Swiss Society of TFP
November 4 and 5, 2022
Part A. Fundamental concepts in TFP
French – Hybrid (Lausanne)
Two day sessions eight hours each time
Part B. Fundamental concepts in TFP
March 3 and 4, 2023 – Lausanne
French – Hybrid
Swiss Society of TFP
TFP Course applied to Narcissistic Personality Disorder-NPD
October 12 to December 14, 2022 – Hangzhou
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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Transference Focused Psychotherapy fundamental training part 1: Overview of strategies, tactics and techniques
November 12-13 and 26-27, 2022 – Chengdu
English to Chinese translation
Si Chuan He Guang Clinical Psychology Institute
Two sets of four full days
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Transference Focused Psychotherapy fundamental training part 2: Review of strategies, tactics, techniques, and application to clinical scenarios
February 11-12 and 18-19, 2023
English to Chinese translation
Si Chuan He Guang Clinical Psychology Institute
TFP Training events

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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.
The ISTFP conference history

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.
Meeting the needs of “difficult” patients
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
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.
ISTFP’s Public Relations and Communication Committee

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.

Mathieu Norton-Poulin
Co-Chair, Canada

Veronica Steiner
Co-Chair, Chili

Diana Tellez
Member, Mexico

Silvia Bernardi
Member, USA

Glauco Valdivieso
Member, Peru

Theophilus Kok
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.