"This book contains the most readable and understandable description of BPD from a dynamic perspective that I have ever read. It is an eye-opener and must reading for anyone working with this population. 
This book goes far beyond any other psychodynamic psychotherapy manual that I've read. It not only delves into the relationship and transference, as most do, but gives some straightforward and clear descriptions of very important interventions that are specific to this population. This book breathes fresh air into psychodynamic psychotherapy. It includes not only a description of the pathology that is understandable even to the non-dynamic therapist, it offers rich descriptions of the specific interventions and their indications that can be effective with the borderline patient." —Larry Beutler, Graduate School of Education, University of California "Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality is an excellent guide to the treatment of these difficult and frequently intractable patients who test the mettle of any psychotherapist who attempts the daunting task of engaging them in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The authors have presented a manual that is practical, lucid, and yet sophisticated." —Hans H. Strupp, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University "In this era of demands for greater accountability in documenting the practice and outcomes of psychotherapy, Clarkin, Yeomans, and Kernberg continue to pursue the challenge of making more transparent what often seems elusive in the treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder. They take seriously the obligation to articulate as plainly as possible the theory behind their work and its translation into 'hands-on' practice." —Paul Pilkonis, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine "This book offers us an opportunity to share in [Drs. Clarkin, Yeomans, and Kernberg's] success. It is a must for anyone who works with borderline patients." —Robert Michels, MD, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center "This admirable guide's many verbatim examples are organized into an expansion of the well-known and impressively effective Kernberg-style psychotherapy treatment system for borderline patients. If you treat borderline patients in psychotherapy, you need this guide for its high-power focus on the special problems of these patients." —Lester Luborsky, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Working with a severely reduced emotional palette, the borderline personality inhabits a stark world populated by comic book heroes and villains, victims and destroyers, saints and serpents, endlessly vying for dominance. As any psychotherapist who treats borderline patients knows, entering the fray in an effort to help establish harmony among the warring factions is an undertaking fraught with danger. Even the canniest therapist is at risk of being drawn into the seductive whirlwind of shifting roles and power struggles, only to become another unwitting agent of chaos. What is needed, then, is an approach that provides sufficient clinical structure to contain the destructive forces that can undermine the therapeutic process while remaining flexible enough to allow the therapist the freedom to safely interact with and respond constructively to the roles thrust upon him or her by the patient. This groundbreaking book describes such an approach—transference focused psychotherapy (TFP). TFP is a sophisticated new variant of psychodynamic interventions centering on the analysis of the transference. Its main goal is to bring a patient's unconscious conflicts to the surface so that they can be actively worked through by the client and therapist within a rigorous clinical framework. An elegantly humane yet clinically rigorous approach to interventions with one of the most challenging categories of personality disorders, Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality is an important professional resource for all mental health professionals.

Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kernberg, Otto F.

Yeomans, Frank E.

Clarkin, John F.

Mental Health

wiley

Treating borderline patients is one of the most challenging areas in psychotherapy because of the patient's extreme emotional expressions, the strain it places on the therapist, and the danger of the patient acting out and harming himself or the therapeutic relationship. Many clinicians consider this patient population difficult, if not impossible, to treat. However, in recent years dedicated experts have focused their clinical and research efforts on the borderline patient and have produced treatments that increase our success in working with borderline patients. Transference-Focused Therapy (TFP) is psychodynamic treatment designed especially for borderline patients. This book provides a concise and comprehensive introduction to TFP that will be useful both to experienced clinicians and also to students of psychotherapy. TFP has its roots in object relations and it emphasizes that the transference is the key to understanding and producing change. The patient's internal world of object representations unfolds and is lived in the transference with the therapist. The therapist listens for and makes use of the relationship that is revealed through words, silence, or, as often occurs in the case of individuals with some borderline personality disorder, acting out in subtle or not-so-subtle ways. This primer offers clinicians a way to understand and then use the transference and countertransference for change in the patient.

A Primer of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for the Borderline Patient

Kernberg MD, Otto F.

Jason Aronson, Inc.

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Systematic Treatment Selection: Toward Targeted Therapeutic Interventions (Brunner/Mazel Integrative Psychotherapy Series)

Beutler, Larry E.

Routledge

Psychological Assessment, Psychiatric Diagnosis, And Treatment Planning

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Reznikoff, Marvin

Hurt, Steven W.

...explains the tools for evaluation, including rating scales and tests, and the major schools of family therapy... influences of class, gender, race, and profession on treatment...also covers gay and lesbian couples.

Marital and Family Therapy

Glick, Ira D.

Berman, Ellen M.

Rait, Douglas S.

Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Systematic Treatment Selection: Toward Targeted Therapeutic Interventions (Bruner/Mazel Integrative Psychotherapy)

Marital and Family Therapy, now in its Fourth Edition, continues its tradition as a classic resource for psychiatrists and family therapists trainees and practitioners alike by combining psychiatric and integrative family models into a single framework. The recent growth and changes in the field, especially the movement away from narrowly based schools of therapy toward an integrative approach, prompted the authors to expand and rewrite the text. The authors have included the results of 20 years of successful field testing by trainees and have supplemented the text with well-placed case vignettes and charts. The authors have further renewed the appeal of this definitive text by 1) rewriting the discussion of how new attitudes and information about gender, culture, class, and race are affecting family theory building, 2) updating their text for compatibility with DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10, 3) adding a section on treating Axis I disorders by combining family therapy with medication, 4) adding a section on the new subspecialty of family systems medicine, 5) offering the latest on family therapy effectiveness and training, and 6) discussing afresh the ethical, financial, and professional issues facing therapists today. With two new authors, up-to-date references for the advanced therapist, and suggested readings for both instructor and student, this volume will spend little time on the shelf. Psychiatrists, family therapists, social workers, nurses, family education teachers, counselors, family physicians, and family law professionals will turn to this practical reference time and time again as they seek a better understanding of the evolving field of marital and family therapy.

Marital And Family Therapy (Glick, Marital and Family Therapy)

For therapists treating patients with borderline personality organization, transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) has proven to be a remarkably successful approach that effectively targets the pathology of character. The product of more than 25 years of development, it draws on advances in object relations theory and attachment theory with the goal of not merely treating symptoms but changing the patient's underlying personality and quality of life. Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality describes principles of intervention and contains a wealth of practical guidelines on how to apply TFP to individual patients on a session-by-session basis. This groundbreaking treatment manual focuses on the analysis of the transference, showing how to help patients relax their defenses and become active participants in the therapeutic process. The authors describe techniques for seeing past the wall of behavioral and cognitive dissonance typically thrown up by the borderline patient, identifying a patient's conflicting self-conceptions and object representations, and immersing oneself in the turbulent currents of the borderline narrative stream while maintaining the clinical distance required to be a constructive force in patients' lives. 
<ul>
<li>For each phase of treatment-assessment, early treatment, midphase, advanced phase, and termination-the authors describe the tasks of the therapist and the sequence of responses by the patients </li>
<li>Session descriptions are included to illustrate treatment in progress </li>
<li>A separate chapter addresses specific issues in treatment, including crisis management for suicide threats and aggressive behavior </li>
<li>Recognizing that patients with BPO start treatment at different points of their pathology, the authors provide an expansive description of the treatment course with high-level and low-level BPO patients, making the book relevant to a wide range of clinical situations</li>
</ul> This volume also reflects not only the authors' ongoing experience with TFP in other clinical sites, showing how it can be used in diverse cultural settings, but also research that helps precisely identify the course and type of changes resulting from TFP. Brimming with insights garnered from years of successful clinical application, Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality will sharpen the skills of those already familiar with TFP and introduce others to a trailblazing approach to therapy.

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

La Psicoterapia centrada en la transferencia se basa en la teoría de las relaciones objetales -orientación que constituye uno de los pilares fundamentales del pensamiento psicoanalítico- y ha sido concebida con la ayuda de una metodología de investigación y una evaluación empírica rigurosas. Diseñada para tratar a los pacientes más difíciles dentro de la cartera de casos del psicoterapeuta psicodinámico, a saber, aquellos que adolecen de una organización borderline de la personalidad, este tratamiento ofrece ya no únicamente un mero alivio de los síntomas cuanto un enfoque para abordar el trastorno de personalidad subyacente. Permite a los pacientes mejorar su funcionamiento social y vocacional, sus vidas amorosas y su creatividad. En esta guía de tratamiento dirigida a los profesionales clínicos, Yeomans, Clarkin y Kernberg, los creadores del enfoque, describen los orígenes de la Psicoterapia centrada en la transferencia y acompañan al profesional clínico a través de la exposición de sus diferentes fases y etapas. Los autores analizan el proceso de selección de casos, el establecimiento y el mantenimiento del marco terapéutico y el desarrollo y análisis de la transferencia. Brindan una orientación para el manejo de las crisis, el potencial suicida, y los acting-outs sexuales, todo ello ricamente ilustrado con distintos ejemplos clínicos. Este texto es de lectura obligada para todo aquel profesional que pretenda comprender o aplicar la Psicoterapia centrada en la transferencia, o para quienes desarrollen su labor clínica con pacientes límites. Frank E. Yeomans, M.D., Ph.D. es profesor clínico asociado de Psiquiatría en la Universidad Weill Cornell y en la Universidad de Columbia. John F. Clarkin, Ph.D. es codirector del Instituto de Trastornos de la Personalidad en la Escuela Superior de Medicina de la Universidad Weill Cornell. Otto F. Kernberg, M.D. es director del Instituto de Trastornos de la Personalidad en la Universidad Weill Cornell y psicoanalista formador en la Universidad de Columbia.

Psicoterapia centrada en la transferencia. Su aplicación al trastorno límite de la personalidad

Psychology & Counseling

Desclée De Brouwer

Combinando hábilmente la teoría con la práctica clínica, el presente libro es un recurso inestimable para cualquier profesional clínico que busque un modelo coherente para explicar el funcionamiento y la patología de la personalidad, además de un modelo de clasificación, evaluación y tratamiento. Esta guía, profundamente perspicaz, presenta la Psicoterapia Focalizada en la Transferencia-Ampliada, un enfoque especializado pero accesible a cualquier profesional clínico interesado en el tratamiento de los trastornos de la personalidad. Compatible con la Sección III Modelo alternativo para los trastornos de personalidad del DSM-5, al tiempo que desarrollando dicho enfoque descriptivo, ofrece a los profesionales clínicos un marco de referencia accesible para guiar la evaluación y el tratamiento de los trastornos de personalidad dentro de una amplia variedad de contextos clínicos. En este libro los lectores encontrarán: - un modelo coherente del funcionamiento de la personalidad y de los trastornos de personalidad basado en la teoría psicodinámica de las relaciones objetales; - un enfoque clínicamente afín para la clasificación de los trastornos de personalidad, junto con un enfoque comprehensivo para la evaluación clínica; - un modelo de tratamiento integrado basado en unos principios clínicos generales aplicables a todo el espectro de los trastornos de la personalidad; - una explicación de las modificaciones específicas de la técnica para ajustar la intervención a la patología de personalidad del paciente individual; - descripciones de técnicas psicodinámicas específicas que pueden extrapolarse a los tratamientos a corto plazo y a los contextos clínicos agudos. La evaluación del paciente y las técnicas psicodinámicas básicas se describen en unos términos actualizados y sin tecnicismos, complementadas por numerosas ilustraciones clínicas, además de una serie de vídeos online que ejemplifican las distintas intervenciones. Al final de cada capítulo los lectores encontrarán un resumen de los conceptos clínicos claves, lo que hace de este libro tanto un instrumento de referencia rápido y práctico como un trampolín con vistas al aprendizaje y la formación continuados. Eve Caligor, M.D., es profesora clínica de psiquiatría en la Facultad de Medicina y Cirugía de la Universidad de Columbia; y directora de la División de Psicoterapia, además de psicoanalista formadora y supervisora, en el Centro para la Formación y la Investigación Psicoanalítica, dependiente de la Universidad de Columbia, en Nueva York. Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., es director del Instituto de Trastornos de la Personalidad, dependiente del Weill Cornell Medical College de la Universidad de Cornell; profesor de psiquiatría en el Weill Cornell Medical College; y psicoanalista formador y supervisor en el Centro para la Formación y la Investigación Psicoanalítica, dependiente de la Universidad de Columbia, en Nueva York. John F. Clarkin, Ph.D., es codirector del Instituto de Trastornos de la Personalidad, dependiente del Weill Cornell Medical College de la Universidad de Cornell; y profesor clínico de psicología aplicada a la psiquiatría en el Weill Cornell Medical College de la Universidad de Cornell, en Nueva York. Frank E. Yeomans, M.D., Ph.D., es profesor clínico asociado de psiquiatría en el Weill Cornell Medical College de la Universidad de Cornell; director de formación en el Instituto de Trastornos de la Personalidad, dependiente del Weill Cornell Medical College de la Universidad de Cornell; y profesor adjunto asociado de psiquiatría en el Centro para la Formación y la Investigación Psicoanalítica, dependiente de la Universidad de Columbia, en Nueva York.

Terapia psicodinámica para la patología de la personalidad. Tratamiento del funcionamiento intrapsíquico e interpersonal

Caligor, Eve

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Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality

A Primer of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for the Borderline Patient

Systematic Treatment Selection: Toward Targeted Therapeutic Interventions (Brunner/Mazel Integrative Psychotherapy Series)

Psychological Assessment, Psychiatric Diagnosis, And Treatment Planning

Marital and Family Therapy

Systematic Treatment Selection: Toward Targeted Therapeutic Interventions (Bruner/Mazel Integrative Psychotherapy)

Marital And Family Therapy (Glick, Marital and Family Therapy)

Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality

Psicoterapia centrada en la transferencia. Su aplicación al trastorno límite de la personalidad

Terapia psicodinámica para la patología de la personalidad. Tratamiento del funcionamiento intrapsíquico e interpersonal