Theory behind TFP

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 disorders and atypical psychoses. Psychoses are and were very serious, usually degenerative diseases that made people worse and worse, that is, they cause deterioration, severe,…