Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Clinical Guide presents a model of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and its treatment that is based on contemporary psychoanalytic object relations theory as developed by the leading thinker in the field, Otto Kernberg, M.D., who is also one of the authors of this insightful manual. The model is supported and enhanced by material on current phenomenological and neurobiological research and is grounded in real-world cases that deftly illustrate principles of intervention in ways that mental health professionals can use with their patients.

ABOUT THE AUTHORSPREFACEVIDEO GUIDE Chapter 1. The Nature Of Normal And Abnormal Personality OrganizationChapter 2. Empirical Development Of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: A Clinical Research ProcessChapter 3. Strategies Of Transference-Focused PsychotherapyChapter 4. Assessment Phase: Clinical Evaluation And Treatment Selection Chapter 5. Establishing The Treatment Frame: Contracting, Medication, And Adjunctive Treatments Chapter 6. Techniques Of Treatment: Moment-To-Moment Interventions And Mechanisms Of Change Chapter 7. Tactics Of Treatment And Clinical ChallengesChapter 8. Early Treatment Phase: Test Of The Frame, Impulse Containment, And Identifying DYADS Chapter 9. Midphase Of Treatment: Movement Toward Integration With Episodes of Regression Chapter 10. Advance Phase Of Treatment and TerminationChapter 11. Trajectories Of Change In Transference-Focused PsychotherapyREFERENCESINDEX