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Personality disorders in adolescents Yes or no?
Is it Appropriate to Diagnose Personality Disorders in Adolescents? According to DSM or ICD-10 criteria, Personality Disorder should not be diagnosed in children under 18 years of age since the…
Theory behind TFP
When Otto Kernberg approached the world of mental illness in the 1960s, he encountered two very different groups of patients. The first group was led by psychoses, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective…
Difficulties in the diagnosis of personality disorders.
While in theory all clinicians accept and even applaud the diagnosis of Personality Disorders, in actual practice there is one problem that stands out. Almost all Personality Disorder diagnoses made…
Psychotherapy training: Mentoring for psychotherapists
“To be trained in psychotherapy”, at first, may seem to be something ungraspable. That phrase in itself contains its trap; because it is not something so simple; because how does…
The importance of therapeutic targets in PPT
ISTFP Vice President Dr. Eve Caligor presented at the Milan Supervisors Congress on October 6, 2023 a joint lecture with Dr. Richard Hersh (pioneer of Applied PFT) on the importance…
TFP and patients with low reflexivity
TFP and the work in patients with low reflexivity Our faculty member, Dr. Luis Valenciano, and the President of the ISTFP, Dr. Frank Yeomans (TFP-New York) gave a joint lecture…
What is TFP and why do you need to know how to do it?
Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is an evidence-based specific treatment for Severe Personality Disorders. It has been developed by Otto Kernberg and his collaborators within the framework of the Institute for…
STIPO: Understanding the Structural Interview for Personality Organization
The field of psychotherapy is always evolving, seeking tools and methods to better understand the complexities of the human mental apparatus. One tool that has gained recognition in the diagnosis…
Founders of TFP Hispanoamerica Institute highlight at ISTFP Supervisors Congress, Milan
Dr. Luis Valenciano, Pepa González and myself, Verónica Steiner, representing the TFP Hispanoamerica Institute, attended the International Society of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (ISTFP) supervisors’ congress in Milan, Italy. An event that…
