Otto Kernberg: A contemporary Introduction (Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis)

Diamond, Diana

Yeomans, Frank E.

Caligor, Eve

Biographies & Memoirs

Routledge

"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.

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.

Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (Psychoanalysis and Psychological Science Series)

Filling a crucial gap in the clinical literature, this book provides a contemporary view of pathological narcissism and presents an innovative treatment approach. The preeminent authors explore the special challenges of treating patients--with narcissistic traits or narcissistic personality disorder--who retreat from reality into narcissistic grandiosity, thereby compromising their lives and relationships. Assessment procedures and therapeutic strategies have been adapted from transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), a manualized, evidence-based treatment for borderline personality disorder. Rich case material illustrates how TFP-N enables the clinician to engage patients more deeply in therapy and help them overcome relationship and behavioral problems at different levels of severity. The volume integrates psychodynamic theory and research with findings from social cognition, attachment, and neurobiology. &nbsp;

Stern, Barry L.

The Guilford Press

Filling a crucial gap in the clinical literature, this book provides a contemporary view of pathological narcissism and presents an innovative treatment approach. The preeminent authors explore the special challenges of treating patients--with narcissistic traits or narcissistic personality disorder--who retreat from reality into narcissistic grandiosity, thereby compromising their lives and relationships. Assessment procedures and therapeutic strategies have been adapted from transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), a manualized, evidence-based treatment for borderline personality disorder. Rich case material illustrates how TFP-N enables the clinician to engage patients more deeply in therapy and help them overcome relationship and behavioral problems at different levels of severity. The volume integrates psychodynamic theory and research with findings from social cognition, attachment, and neurobiology.

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. 
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<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

Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc

This book offers clear, practical, and simple recommendations for treating patients with personality disorders. The goals of the book are twofold: 1) to describe the essential elements of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), an evidence-based treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder, and 2) to describe how core principles and techniques of TFP can be used in a variety of settings to improve clinical management of patients with a broad spectrum of personality pathology, even when patients are not engaged in individual psychotherapy. A short introduction outlines in concise language the core elements of TFP and its origins in object relations theory. The book then takes the clinician through the process of: 1) comprehensive diagnosis, 2) negotiation of the treatment frame, and 3) the overarching strategies, techniques, and tactics used in the individual treatment, including helpful, accessible clinical vignettes. Subsequent chapters build on the literature of TFP in individual psychotherapy, broadening its applications to include crisis management, family engagement, inpatient psychiatry, pharmacotherapy, medical settings, psychiatry residency training. Fundamentals of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy is a valuable resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, and all other medical professionals treating patients suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder, and other severe personality disorder presentations.

Fundamentals of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: Applications in Psychiatric and Medical Settings

Hersh, Richard G.

Springer

This book offers clear, practical, and simple recommendations for treating patients with personality disorders. The goals of the book are twofold: 1) to describe the essential elements of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), an evidence-based treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder, and 2) to describe how core principles and techniques of TFP can be used in a variety of settings to improve clinical management of patients with a broad spectrum of personality pathology, even when patients are not engaged in individual psychotherapy. A short introduction outlines in concise language the core elements of TFP and its origins in object relations theory. The book then takes the clinician through the process of: 1) comprehensive diagnosis, 2) negotiation of the treatment frame, and 3) the overarching strategies, techniques, and tactics used in the individual treatment, including helpful, accessible clinical vignettes. Subsequent chapters build on the literature of TFP in individual psychotherapy, broadening its applications to include crisis management, family engagement, inpatient psychiatry, pharmacotherapy, medical settings, psychiatry residency training.  Fundamentals of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy is a valuable resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, and all other medical professionals treating patients suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder, and other severe personality disorder presentations.

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

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Otto Kernberg: A contemporary Introduction (Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis)

Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality

A Primer of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for the Borderline Patient

Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (Psychoanalysis and Psychological Science Series)

Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (Psychoanalysis and Psychological Science Series)

Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality

Fundamentals of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: Applications in Psychiatric and Medical Settings

Fundamentals of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: Applications in Psychiatric and Medical Settings

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