Transference Focused Psychotherapy For Borderline Personality Disorder. Kernberg clarkin and yeomans this type of therapy isnt like cognitive behavioral therapy cbt or dialectical behavior therapy dbt which are common methods. Advances in our understanding of personality pathology have stimulated further development of transference focused psychotherapy tfp for patients with borderline personality disorder including treatment focus on both behavior and mental representations of self and others the trajectory of change in tfp and the extension of tfp principles to.
In tfp n we have modified and refined the tactics and techniques of tfp an evidence based treatment for borderline personality disor. Transference focused psychotherapy tfp is a manualised psychodynamic treatment for borderline personality disorder. Transference focused psychotherapy is grounded in contemporary psychoanalytic theory since we believe that psychoanalytic thinking.
Research on bpd is 20 to 30 years behind that on other major psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Five major treatmentsdbt mentalization based treatment mbt 1 schema focused therapy sft 2 transference focused psychotherapy tfp 3 and systems training for emotional predictability and problem solving stepps 4have been established as evidence based treatments ebts for bpd 5. Washington dc american psychiatric publishing knowledge knowledge of the nature of bpd knowledge of the features which characterise. The main strategy in the transference focused psychotherapy tfp of borderline personality organization consists in the facilitation of the reactivation in the treat ment of the patients split off internalized object relations that are then observed and interpreted in the transference. Transference focused psychotherapy tfp our approach to personality disorder treatment and research is based on the understanding of personality disorders in general and bpd in specific that is described in our overview section of this website.