Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality

by John F. Clarkin; Frank E. Yeomans; Otto F. Kernberg

• ISBN13: 9780471170426
• ISBN10: 0471170429
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Based on the work of the research team, this manual offers techniques and strategies for treating patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) using Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. Unlike other books on the subject, this is not a step-by-step guidebook for treating patients; rather, it provides therapists with an overall strategy for treating BPD patients, and helpful tactics for working with individual patients on a session-by-session basis.

Author Biography

JOHN F. CLARKIN, PhD, is Co-Director of the Personality Disorder Institute at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division, and Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University. He is the Executive Officer of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. FRANK E. YEOMANS, MD, PhD, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University. He is a Fellow in the Personality Disorder Institute and is in private practice in White Plains and New York City. OTTO F. KERNBERG, MD, is the Director of the Personality Disorder Institute at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University. He is a training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and is currently the President of the International Psychoanalytic Association.

Table of Contents

SECTION ONE INGREDIENTS OF TRANSFERENCE-FOCUSED PSYCHOTHERAPY	1	(102)
1 Introduction to Transference-Focused Psychotherapy	5	(24)
2 Strategies of Treatment: The Broad Strokes	29	(18)
3 Tactics of Treatment: Position from Which the Therapist Intervenes	47	(25)
4 Techniques of Treatment: The Specific Interventions	72	(31)
SECTION TWO PHASES OF TREATMENT	103	(220)
5 Patient Assessment	107	(29)
6 Treatment Contracting: Universal Aspects	136	(16)
7 Treatment Contracting: Individualized Aspects	152	(39)
8 Early Treatment Phase: Impulse Containment	191	(36)
9 A Session in the Early Treatment Phase: A Clinical Illustration	227	(14)
10 Midphase of Treatment: Deepening Understanding	241	(25)
11 Midphase of Treatment: Love and Sexuality	266	(14)
12 Advanced Phase of Treatment	280	(18)
13 Overview of an Entire TFP Case	298	(15)
14 Treatment Termination	313	(10)
SECTION THREE SIGNIFICANT TREATMENT ISSUES	323	(50)
15 Crisis Management	325	(28)
16 Medication Management	353	(20)
APPENDIXES	373	(6)
A Outline of Initial History Taking	373	(1)
B Rating of Therapy Contract	374	(3)
C Rating of TFP Adherence and Competence	377	(2)
References	379	(4)
Index	383