Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Clinical Guide

Abstract

Preface. The nature of normal and abnormal personality organization. Empirical development of transference-focused psychotherapy. Strategies of transference-focused psychotherapy. Assessment phase: clinical evaluation and treatment selection. Establishing the treatment frame: contracting, medication, and adjunctive treatments. Techniques of treatment: moment-to-moment interventions and mechanisms of change. Tactics of treatment and clinical challenges. Early treatment phase: tests of the frame, impulse containment, and identifying dyads. Midphase of treatment: movement toward integration with episodes of regression. Advanced phase of treatment and termination. Trajectories of change in transference-focused psychotherapy. References. Index.

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Frank E. Yeomans, John F. Clarkin, Otto F. Kernberg (2015). Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Clinical Guide.

@book{e2015transferencefocused,
  title  = {Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Clinical Guide},
  author = {Yeomans, Frank E. and Clarkin, John F. and Kernberg, Otto F.},
  year   = {2015}
}