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Advancing Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

International Society of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy

Advancing Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

Seminars

Including Future and Past Seminars ordered by date announced

An Introduction to Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: Its Application to Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorders

Courses, Seminars

Los Angeles, CA, Friday January 31 – Saturday February 1, 2020

Course Description: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy is grounded in contemporary psychoanalytic theory since we believe that psychoanalytic thinking has much to offer in terms of understanding and treating personality disorders. However, our approach includes specific modifications of technique to address the therapeutic needs of patients with borderline and other personality disorders.

Main Presenter: Diana Diamond, PhD [Read more…] about An Introduction to Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: Its Application to Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorders

New Developments in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Treatment of Self and Interpersonal Functions

Seminars

Amsterdam, October 1 – 2, 2019

Master Class taught by Eve Caligor MD

This master class will provide an overview of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy – Extended (TFP-E), a flexible, trans-diagnostic psychodynamic treatment model for pathology of self and interpersonal functioning based on TFP principles.  The treatment builds on a convergence between the psychodynamic, object relations theory model of personality pathology and recent developments in the empirical study of personality disorders reflected in the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders in the DSM5. Both models emphasize the centrality of self and interpersonal functioning in personality health and pathology across a range of severity, and improvement in these domains of functioning emerges as a central goal in treatment.  The course will introduce participants to the general clinical principles and specific techniques that define TFP-E.  We will highlight how this general treatment model is systematically modified according to severity of personality pathology, as techniques are differentially applied to meet the needs of the individual patient. [Read more…] about New Developments in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Treatment of Self and Interpersonal Functions