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The ISTFP Research Award

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ISTFP Research Award

Among many other initiatives, the International Society for Transference Focused Psychotherapy (ISTFP) shares its commitment to fostering science and acquisition of knowledge with a yearly award: the Research Award from the International Society for Transference Focused Psychotherapy. Publications issued in English during the last two years on personality pathology from an object relation point of view are eligible for nomination and consideration for the award which consists of Euro 1000. This award is meant to recognize rigorous scientific effort on transference-focused psychotherapy and will be presented to the winner during the ISTFP annual conference.

Any member in good standing can nominate a paper (including the author) by emailing the Chair of the Research Committee or Dr. Frank Yeomans. ISTFP encourages authors to nominate their own work.

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Glauco Valdivieso
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.

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Silvia Bernardi
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.

ISTFP’s Public Relations and Communication Committee

News, Public Relations

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

Diana Tellez

Member, Mexico

Silvia Bernardi

Silvia Bernardi

Member, USA

Glauco Valdivieso

Glauco Valdivieso

Member, Peru

Theophilus Kok

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. 

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Mathieu Norton-Poulin, M.Ps.
Mathieu Norton-Poulin, M.Ps.


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.

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