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Otto Kernberg, M.D.
On May 13, an event an oral “Festschrift” was held, in which the part of the ISTFP community connected to Cornell and special guests gathered with Otto Kernberg to celebrate his retirement as Director of the Personality Disorder Institute of New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical College. More than 90 colleagues and members of his family…
A word from the president – January 2023
Photo de Gabriel Herter sur Unsplash Dear Colleagues, First, I hope everyone has had the opportunity to have a good holiday break and a good start to the new year. My understanding is that the classical Greeks taught us to “observe moderation in all things” (it sounds like a different way to say “avoid splitting”). In that spirit,…
The ISTFP mailing list project
Dear ISTFP members, The 7th ISTFP conference ended just over two months ago, and I am still reflecting on how stimulating it was, both intellectually and emotionally. Like me, those of you who attended were able to witness our strong sense of community that prevails despite the challenges to group cohesion wonderfully described during the…
Neurobiological underpinning of distress related to social exclusion
In this issue of our research digest, we focus on a very recent article from Eric Fertuck, Ph.D. and colleagues entitled: Rejection Distress Suppresses Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Borderline Personality Disorder. Dr. Fertuck is an Associate Professor of Psychology at CUNY, NY, a certified TFP supervisor and therapist, a psychoanalyst, as well as a member…
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Let’s meet Glauco Valdivieso, Coordinator of developing TFP Peru group
Meeting Glauco feels like an adventure, as he wears many hats, he is passionate about his work as a head of Mental Health Unit of Hospital de Emergencias Villa El Salvador, but above all he is passionate about studying. He has studied a master’s degree in Health Management, and is currently pursuing two more master’s…
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Third ESSPD Summer School 2023: Developmental Pathways and Interventions
Third ESSPD Summer School 2023 – August 27th to September 2nd, 2023 Dear colleagues and ISTFP members, the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD) is proud to announce the third ESSPD Summer School for early career researchers, organized in collaboration with the University of Lausanne, Depart- ment of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychotherapy…
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https://youtu.be/lPWMk7P1nz0 Frank E. Yeomans, MD, PhD Dr Frank Yeomans is a psychiatrist, associate professor at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Director of Training at the Personality Disorders Institute of Weill-Cornell, Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and Director of the Personality…
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Training in TFP
The concept of being a TFP therapist has evolved over the years. When Otto Kernberg first wrote about borderline conditions and how to treat them, he considered his contributions to be modifications and refinements of general psychoanalytic technique. In those early days, in the late 1970’s and the 1980’s, before the more specific description of…
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