National/Regional TFP Societies and Groups

Institution where TFP is offered to patients:
Please see https://www.borderlinedisorders.com/aboutpdi.php

Regular training courses, workshops, and supervisions:
Please see https://www.borderlinedisorders.com/seminars.php
and http://www.tfpny.com/training_for_professionals.php

Group in development
Contact person:
Mark F. Lenzenweger, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Laboratory of Experimental Psychopathology
Department of Psychology
The State University of New York at Binghamton
Science IV
Binghamton, New York 13902
Phone: +1-(0)607-7777148
Fax: +1-(0)-607-7774890
mlenzen@binghamton.edu
http://www2.binghamton.edu/psychology/features/lenzenweger.html

Dr. Mark F. Lenzenweger maintains a private practice, making use of the principles of TFP, in the treatment of a range of personality disorders. His practice is based in Ithaca, New York, USA. Dr.Lenzenweger’s research interests are in the area of schizotypy and schizophrenia as well as in the area of longitudinal study of severe personality disorders. His laboratory is based at The State University of New York at Binghamton. He is also an active collaborator with Dr. Otto Kernberg and Dr. John Clarkin at the Weill Cornell Medical College.

Dr. Juan Pablo Ahumada-Castillo
Av. Cuauhtimoc # 130 B401
Colonia Declares
Postal Code: 06720
Mexico City
drjpahumada@gmail.com

Instituto Chileno de Trastornos de Personalidad
Contact person:
Benny Oksenberg, MD
Malaga 115 Oficina 808
Las Condes
Santiago
Phone: +56-(0)2-22280970/ +56-(0)9-94491157/ +56-(0)9-95434570
b.oksenberg@mi.cl; boksenberg@ichtp.cl
contacto@ichtp.cl

The institute is dedicated since 2008 to treat, teach, and do research on personality disorders. At this moment there are 13 members, 11 psychologists and 2 psychiatrists. ICHTP has been associated to universities and Chilean Ministry of Health to teach diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders, also it has been invited to lecture on personality disorders throughout the country. ICHTP has done research on validation of STIPO together with the New York TFP group and on countertransference with Universidad de Chile Psychiatric Clinic. ICHTP has an active participant of the Chilean Psychiatric Society Annual Meeting.

Institution where TFP isoffered to patients:
Instituto Chileno de Trastornos de Personalidad
El Trovador 4280 Of. 1003
Las Condes
Santiago
Phone: +56-(0)2-2088619
www.ichtp.cl

Regular training courses, workshops, and supervisions:
The ICTHP offer regular supervision and internships.
A postgraduate training program in personality disorders is developed in association with Universidad Austral de Chile for the south region in Chile.
A master in personality disorders is developed in association with Universidad Alberto Hurtado for the Santiago region.
A research collaboration with Universidad Católica de Chile exists; the project uses the Structured Interview for Personality Organization (STIPO) for the validation of the Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD).

Dr. Peter Schuster was one of the first European psychiatrists and psychoanalysts who invited Otto F. Kernberg for lectures and training courses to Vienna. Since the early 1980s Otto F. Kernberg regularly visits Vienna and delivers training and supervision to TFP therapists. In the late 1990s Bernhard Brömmel visited the Personality Disorders Institute in New York and received TFP training by Otto F. Kernberg and his colleagues. From 2003 – 2010 the Viennese TFP therapists took part in the Munich-Vienna TFP study that demonstrated the efficacy of the treatment (Doering et al. Br J Psychiatry 2010; 196(5):389-395). The Viennese TFP therapists belong to three institutions: The Academy for Psychoanalysis, the Austrian Society of Applied Depth Psychology and General Psychotherapy (ÖGATAP), and the Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna. During the last decade regular TFP training courses are offered and a number of regular supervision groups take place in Vienna. Moreover, Viennese TFP trainers and supervisors are delivering TFP courses in several places in Austria and Germany as well as at international conferences.
After the International Society of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (ISTFP) has been inaugurated in New York in 2011, Vienna became the headquarter of the society with Stephan Doering as vice president and executice officer and Melitta Fischer-Kern as treasurer.

Institution where TFP isoffered to patients:
Dept. of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Medical University of Vienna
Währinger Gürtel 18-20
A-1090 Wien
Phone: +43-1-40400-30670
Fax: +43-1-406 68 03
www.meduniwien.ac.at/hp/psychoanalyse/

Regular training courses, workshops, and supervisions:
Regular TFP training courses including continuous supervision are offered in Vienna jointly by the Academy for Psychoanalysis, the Austrian Society of Applied Depth Psychology and General Psychotherapy (ÖGATAP), and the Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna.

Approved TFP teachers and supervisors:

Dr. Bernhard Brömmel
Penzinger Straße 106/2, 1140 Wien, Tel.: 0664-2268394, praxis@broemmel.at

Dr. Andrea Bronner
Böcklinstraße 12/11, 1020 Wien, Tel: 0699 17273913, andreabronner18@gmail.com

Dr. George Brownstone
Girardigasse 3/24, 1060Wien, Tel.: 0676 7384299, george.brownstone@chello.at

Prof. Dr. Stephan Doering
Klinik für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Universität Wien, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Tel.: +43-1-40400-30610, stephan.doering@meduniwien.ac.at

Mag. Martin Engelberg
Rudolfsplatz 9, 1010Wien, Tel.: +43-1-5326310, martin.engelberg@wpv.at

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Melitta Fischer-Kern
Klinik für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Universität Wien, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Tel.: +43-1-40400-30670, melitta.fischer-kern@meduniwien.ac.at

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Fritz Lackinger
Otto-Bauer-Gasse 20/8, 1060 Wien, Tel. +43-1-585 11 95, flackinger@utanet.at

Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Katharina Leithner-Dziubas
Klinik für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Universität Wien, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Tel.: +43-1-40400-30670, katharina.leithner-dziubas@meduniwien.ac.at

Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Henriette Löffler-Stastka
Klinik für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Universität Wien, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Tel.: +43-1-40400-30670, henriette.loeffler-stastka@meduniwien.ac.at

Dr. Eva Ptak-Wiesauer
Neustiftgasse 53/II/56, 1070 Wien, eva.ptak-wiesauer@chello.at

OR Dr. Peter Schuster
Währinger Gürtel 35/5, A-1090 Wien, Tel.: +43-1-4060144

Secretary:
Anne Seybold
Abbestr.4
D-80999 München
Fax: +49-(0)89-25549039
info@tfp-institut-muenchen.de
www.tfp-institut-muenchen.de

The German TFP Institute in Munich was founded by Prof.Dr. Peter Buchheim. It has a long-standing tradition in the application, development, training, supervision, and research on TFP. It has been involved in the Munich-Vienna-Study for the evaluation of TFP treatment. A number of experiencedTFP therapists are connected via the institute and help patients with severe personality disorders to find adequate therapy.

Institution where TFP isoffered to patients:
The TFP-Institut München offers contacting TFP therapists.
Requests should be sent to info@tfp-institut-muenchen.de.

Regular training courses, workshops, and supervisions:
Regular basic and follow-up seminars are held in Munich and in Höhenried as specified on our website: www.tfp-institut-muenchen.de

Approved TFP teachers and supervisors:
See website: www.tfp-institut-muenchen.de

Contact person:
Marion Braun
Hagenstr. 27
D-14193 Berlin
Phone: +49-(0)30-873 03 82
braunmarion@t-online.de

The Berlin TFP Group is a working group of the „Institut für Psychotherapie e.V. Berlin“, one of Germany’s largest Institutes for Psychoanalysis. It offers advanced training for specialists in child/ adolescent psychotherapy as well as adult psychotherapy.
Inspired by Otto F. Kernberg, who for years has worked closely with this institution in manifold ways, Irmhild Kohte-Meyer founded the TFP Group in 2004. She was the head of the team until she passed away in 2011. After this, Werner Köpp had assumed her role, who handed over the function of the spokesperson to Marion Braun in 2014.
The goal of the group’s founding members was to first internalize the TFP treatment method and then to establish TFP according to Kernberg at the “Institut für Psychotherapie”. The project group’s main focus lies in theoretical training, in the supervision by Otto F. Kernberg and Mathias Lohmer as well as in peer consulting within a small collegial group.
Currently, we are dealing with the topic of how severe personality developmental disorders on the structural level of BPD are manifested in child’s play.
TFP for the treatment of adolescents is also a part of the curriculum in which child- and adolescent therapists are taking part as well.
By and by we have offered patients with severe personality disorders TFP treatment through the communications office at the “Institut für Psychotherapie e.V. Berlin”.
Since 2009, we have been offering seminars on TFP for advanced training candidates in the framework of their psychoanalytic studies.
A curriculum for further training has been available to certified psychoanalysts at our institution since 2010. This way of training is also supported by Otto F. Kernberg and Mathias Lohmer by means of theory and case studies. At the time we are organizing peer consulting groups consisting of 4 – 6 participants.
The Berlin TFP Group is currently striving to expand its network with medical centers and institutes on a Berlin-Brandenburg scale.

Institution where TFP is offered to patients:
Institut für Psychotherapie e.V. Berlin
Vermittlungsstelle: Frau Koenig
Goerzallee 5
D-12207 Berlin
Phone: +49-(0)30-84186731
Fax: +49-(0)30-84186733

Regular training courses, workshops, and supervisions:
Regular supervisions in small groups (4 – 6 participants) as well as supervisions by Otto F. Kernberg from New York and Mathias Lohmer from Munich. Regular training courses, workshops and instructions in theory and methods are offered by the above mentioned supervisors.

Approved TFP teachers and supervisors:

Marion Braun, M.A.
Hagenstr. 27, 14193 Berlin, Tel: 873 03 82, braunmarion@t-online.de (TFP)

Martina Drust, M.A.
Sredzkistr.35 10435 Berlin, Tel: 32 70 58 93, martina.drust@web.de (TFP for children and adolescents)

Irma Gleiss, Ph.D.
Hektorstr. 12, 10711 Berlin, Tel: 324 71 73, i.gleiss@snafu.de (TFP)

Vivian Heitmann, Ph.D.
Gipsstr. 2, 10119 Berlin, Tel: 26 55 66 77, vivian_heitmann@web.de (TFP)

Gabriele Kehr, M.A.
Warmbrunner Str. 46–48. 14193 Berlin, Tel: 825 98 56, Gabriele.Kehr@gmx.de (TFP and TFP for children and adolescents)

Carolin Keller, M.A.
Boxhagenerstr. 111, 10245 Berlin, Tel: 29 36 86 69, carolin.keller@gmx.net (TFP and TFP for children and adolescents)

Werner Köpp, M.D.
Maaßenstr. 8, 10777 Berlin, Tel: 23 62 42 17, praxis@dr-werner-koepp.de (TFP)

Irmgard Kreft, M.A.
Königin-Elisabeth-Str. 1, 14059 Berlin, Tel: 301 77 27, BeaKreft@web.de (TFP for children and adolescents)

Silke von Polenz, M.A.
Hildegardstr. 14, 10715 Berlin, Tel: 694 39 82, silkevonpolenz@gmx.de (TFP)

Silvia Weihert, M.A.
Albrechtstr. 5, 10117 Berlin, Tel: 28 09 90 70, silvia.weihert@gmx.de (TFP)

The Münsterlingen group focuses on TFP for adult patients and stands in close cooperation with the TFP-Insitute of Munich.The Münsterlingen group focuses on TFP for adult patients and stands in close cooperation with the TFP-Insitute of Munich.

Institution where TFP isoffered to patients:
In June 2008 a specific TFP inpatient treatmentwas implemented at the Psychiatric Hospital Münsterlingen.

Contact:
Psychotherapiestation für Persönlichkeitsstörungen B
Psychiatrische Klinik Münsterlingen
CH-8596 Münsterlingen
Phone: +41-(0)71-6864064
Fax: +41-(0)71-6864035
christiane.roesch@stgag.ch
www.stgag.ch/psychiatrische-dienste-thurgau/angebot-finder/psychiatrie/psychotherapie/psychotherapie-von-persoenlichkeitsstoerungen-b.html

Regular training courses, workshops, and supervisions:
In cooperation with the TFP-institute Munich in spring 2010 basic courses in TFP were offered in Münsterlingen, since then every year 3 courses in TFP are continued. This resulted in a platform and network for therapists, who are interested in psychodynamic treatment of borderline patients.
In autumn 2010 two supervision groups with 4-5 participants started. The supervisors are Dr. Claudia Bailer and Dr. Agnes Schneider-Heine from the TFP-Institute Munich.
Since autumn 2011 within the education for internship in psychiatry a 12 lesson introduction in TFP is given.

Approved TFP teachers and supervisors:

Gerhard Dammann, MD
Psychiatric Hospital, P.O. Box 154, CH-8596 Münsterlingen,
Phone: +41-(0)71-6864021, gerhard.dammann@stgag.ch

Christiane Rösch, Dipl.-Psych.
Psychiatric Hospital, P.O. Box 154, CH-8596 Münsterlingen,
Phone: +41-(0)71-6864064, christiane.roesch@stgag.ch

Contact person:
Dr. Sergio Dazzi
PDlab Presindent
18, b.go G. Tommasini
43100 Parma
Italy
Phone +39-0521-238114
sdazzi@dazzistudio.it
http://www.pdlab.it/

PDlab is a registered scientific association devoted to the treatment, study and research in the area of personality disorders. Specifically, Pdlab’s mission is to foster the knowledge and application of the object relations model of personality pathology within the Italian psychiatric context. Therefore, PDlab encourages affiliation with private and public mental health facilities to develop teaching programs to apply TFP-based treatments as well as research projects.
All PDlab members are licensed psychotherapists, including psychiatrists and clinical psychologists. While some of them are in private practice only, others also serve as staff clinicians or faculty within Italian public psychiatric services (Departments of Mental Health of Lecco and Parma) and/or University Departments (University of Parma- University of Milano Bicocca). This professional heterogeneity accounts for the group’s commitment to pursue both clinical and research aims related to the association’s goals.

Executive Board of PDlab: Sergio Dazzi, MD, President; Fabio Madeddu. MD, Vice President; Monica Rabaglia, PhD, Secretary; RomoloGadaldi, MD, Treasurer; Susanna Brambilla, MD; Maria Beatrice Cassani, PhD; Chiara De Panfilis, MD; Valentina Di Mattei, PhD; Emanuele Preti. PhD; Antonio Prunas, PhD; AlviseOrlandini, MD; Irene Sarno, PhD

Institution where TFP isoffered to patients:
TFP is provided on a private practice basis in Parma (where PDlab is officially based), Milano, and Lecco by the members of the PDlab, please see http://www.pdlab.it/.

Regular training courses, workshops, and supervisions:
PDlab runs a regular two-day basic training course and regular supervisions for licensed mental health professionals who are planning to become members or fellows of PDlab and/or TFP therapists.
Several members of the group are regularly requested to present on TFP theory, research and model of treatment at national conferences or local seminars on personality disorders. Lectures usually focus on illustrating the potential advantages of implementing TFP within the Italian public and private mental health facilities for personality disorders. In addition, PDlab members teaching in University Departments are introducing TFP principles to psychology students and psychiatry residents, within their annual course schedule.
Weekly group meetings are scheduled both in Parma and Milan, devoted to group supervision as well as to clinical and theoretical discussions. Professionals in the scientific community are welcome to attend the clinical discussions.

Institution where TFP is offered to patients:
Istituto di Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica
Via della Consolata 2
Tel: +39 0110714278
10122-Torino, Italy
filippo.bellavia11@gmail.com

TFP was introduced in the Netherlands in the 1990s by Otto Kernberg and Frank Yeomans. About 50 therapists are trained, supervised and experienced in delivering TFP, while twice as many received some form of TFP training. TFP has been included into the National Guidelines for the Treatment of Personality Disorders (2008) and in formal professional training. A mailing list of TFP-trained clinicians has been gathered by Paul Wijts and Nel Draijer to organize yearly national supervision meetings with Frank Yeomans.The Dutch society ‘TFP Netherlands’ was founded in May 2012. Members of TFP Nederland will be registered clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists or those in training to be registered, and who have received TFP training according to the Society’s criteria, who are actively conducting TFP, and who participate in TFP intervision groups. Junior members (‘aspirants’) are those who have started the theoretical and technical TFP training as well as their own psychoanalytic psychotherapy.Statutes of ‘TFP Nederland’ follow those of the ISTFP. Aims are:

• To promote the development and practice of TFP in the Netherlands.
• To provide training and supervision opportunities for future TFP therapists.
• To promote research on TFP.

In order to achieve these aims (board) members of TFP Nederland teach TFP in formal post-doc training courses on psychotherapy, clinical psychology, psychoanalysis and psychiatry. They organize national training courses and local supervision opportunities for new members. The society is in close cooperation with the Dutch Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (NVPP), which has a formal ‘license register’ for TFP. The society organizes a yearly national conference on TFP development and practice, in close contact with the Personality Disorders Institute (PDI) in New York (Frank Yeomans). In 2012 TFP Nederland organizes the 2nd International ISTFP conference.

Institutions where TFP is offered to patients:
NPI Amsterdam: www.psychoanalytischinstituut.nl
GGZ Ingeest, Amsterdam: www.ggzingeest.nl
PuntP, Amsterdam: www.puntp.nl
Altrecht, Utrecht: www.altrecht.nl
RiaggRijnmond, Rotterdam: www.riagg-rnw.nl
Riagg Maastricht: www.riagg-maastricht.nl
Jelgersma, Oegsgeest: www.csp.nl

Regular training courses, workshops, and supervisions:
Regular training courses

• TFP in the official post-doc psychotherapy training (RINOAmsterdam, Maastricht, Leiden) (24-30 hours theory & technique and 25 hours supervision)
• Two year course TFP therapist (Dutch Psychoanalytic Institute) (120 hours, including technical seminar)
• TFP in the post-doc long term psychotherapy training and supervision at the Department of Psychiatry (VUMC, Amsterdam)
• TFP in the official training of the Dutch Society of Psychoanalysis (NVPA) and the Dutch Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (NVPP) (chapters in the third and fourth year of official psychoanalytic training and in psychoanalytic psychotherapy training) (2x 12 hours as well as the possibility of supervision)
• In service TFP training on request. Workshops/lectures
• Are organized on a regular basis all over the Netherlands Supervision
• Dutch Psychoanalytic Institute / GGZinGeest: 2 groups
• Amsterdam (private): 1 group
• All board members supervise TFP individually on a regular basis

Approved TFP teachers and supervisors:

Paul Wijts, Maastricht
Director Virenze (institute for mental health), psychoanalist, TFP supervisor, Paul.Wijts@gmail.com

Nel Draijer, PhD, Amsterdam
Department of Psychiatry, VU Medical center / GGZinGeest, Phone: +31-(0)6-41146732, N.Draijer@ggzingeest.nl, draijerdelouw@hetnet.nl

Jos van Mosel, Amsterdam / Leiden
BlauweVogelweg 2A, 2333 VK Leiden, Phone: +31-(0)71-5150112

Eduarda Vendysova Bakalarova, Amsterdam
Anna van den Vondelstraat 3, 1054 GX Amsterdam, Phone: +31-(0)20-6853930, vendysbakalar@gmail.com

Kees Kooiman, PhD, Rotterdam / Leiden
Riagg Rijnmond, Department of Psychotherapy, Rotterdam/Schiedam, Center for Personality Disorders Jelgersma, Oegstgeest/Leiden, p.a. Schellinglaan 28, 2271 VE Voorburg, Phone: +31-(0)70-3208444, kooiman@cgkooiman.nl

Marike Steeman, Maastricht
Riagg Maastricht, m.steeman@riagg-maastricht.nl
Gardeniersstraat 3, 6212GN Maastricht, mabsteeman@gmail.com

“Danish Forum”
Contact persons:
Dr. Lisa Bromer, lisabromer@gmail.com
Heidi Hvidberg, MSc, heidihvidberg@hotmail.com
Hanne Bruhn, MSc,  psykolog@hannebruhn.dk