Yeomans, M.D., Ph.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Director of Training at the Personality Disorders Institute of New York Presbyterian Hospital, and Director of the Personality Studies Institute in New York City. This primer offers clinicians a way to understand and then use the transference and countertransference for change in the patient.įrank E. 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.
The patient's internal world of object representations unfolds and is lived in the transference with the therapist. TFP has its roots in object relations and it emphasizes that the transference is the key to understanding and producing change. This book provides a concise and comprehensive introduction to TFP that will be useful both to experienced clinicians and also to students of psychotherapy. Transference-Focused Therapy (TFP) is psychodynamic treatment designed especially for borderline patients. 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. Many clinicians consider this patient population difficult, if not impossible, to treat.
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.
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