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Deftly combining contemporary theory with clinical practice, Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning is an invaluable resource for any clinician seeking a coherent model of personality functioning and pathology, classification, assessment, and treatment. This insightful guide introduces Transference-Focused Psychotherapy—Extended (TFP-E), a specialized but accessible approach for any clinician interested in the skillful treatment of personality disorders.
Compatible with the DSM-5 Section III Alternative Model for Personality Disorders—and elaborating on that approach, this volume offers clinicians at all levels of experience an accessible framework to guide evaluation and treatment of personality disorders in a broad variety of clinical and research settings.
In
this book, readers will find:
• A coherent model of personality functioning and disorders based in
psychodynamic object relations theory
• A clinically near approach to
the classification of personality disorders, coupled with a comprehensive
approach to assessment
• An integrated treatment model based on general
clinical principles that apply across the spectrum of personality
disorders
• An understanding of specific modifications of technique that
tailor intervention to the individual patient's personality pathology
•
Descriptions of specific psychodynamic techniques that can be exported to
shorter-term treatments and acute clinical settings
Patient assessment and basic psychodynamic techniques are described in up-to-date, jargon-free terms and richly supported by numerous clinical vignettes, as well as online videos demonstrating interventions. At the end of each chapter, readers will find a summary of key clinical concepts, making this book both a quick reference tool as well as a springboard for continued learning.
Clinicians looking for an innovative, trustworthy guide to understanding and treating personality pathology that combines contemporary theory with clinical practice need look no further than Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning.
Eve Caligor, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Director of the Psychotherapy Division and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York, New York.
Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., is Director of the Personality Disorders Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College, Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York, New York.
John F. Clarkin, Ph.D., is Codirector of the Personality Disorders Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College and Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
Frank E. Yeomans, M.D., Ph.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Director of Training at the Personality Disorders Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York, New York.
Foreword
Preface
Video Guide
Chapter 1.
Introduction: A Model of Treatment Targeting Self and Interpersonal
Functioning
Section I: Personality and Personality Disorders Through
the Lens of Object Relations Theory
Chapter 2. Personality and
Personality Disorders Within the Framework of Object Relations
Theory
Chapter 3. Clinical Psychodynamics Within the Framework of Object
Relations Theory: Conflict, Anxiety, Defense, and Internal Object Relations
Section II: Overview of TFP-E: Basic Tasks, the Therapeutic
Relationship, and Strategies of Treatment
Chapter 4. Basic Tasks and
Elements of Treatment
Chapter 5. The Therapeutic Relationship: The
Therapist's Attitude and Stance, the Therapeutic Alliance, Transference, and
Countertransference
Chapter 6. Strategies of Treatment and Mechanisms of
Change
Section III: The Skillful Consultation
Chapter 7. Patient
Assessment and Treatment Planning
Section IV: Establishing the
Treatment Frame
Chapter 8. Essential Treatment Contracting: Behaviors,
Adjunctive Treatments, and Medication
Section V: Techniques and Tactics
of TFP-E
Chapter 9. Identifying a Focus for Intervention
Chapter
10. Intervening I: Exploratory Interventions and the Interpretive Process
Chapter 11. Intervening II: Transference Analysis and Tactics Guiding
the Interpretive Process
Chapter 12. Intervening III: Integrating
Supportive and Exploratory Interventions
Section VI: Phases of Treatment
and Trajectories of Change
Chapter 13. Early, Middle, and Advanced
Phases of Treatment
Chapter 14. Afterword
Appendix: Helpful
Resources
Index