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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 adolescent brain is still developing, but in practice it is controversial. Controversy in the Diagnosis According to DSM and ICD-10 It does not matter whether…
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,…
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 by clinicians are BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder). And this is so because the observable symptoms of BPD are, just that, very observable, they are obvious….
“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 one train in psychotherapy. There’s no shortage of courses, exactly. It’s virtually a jungle out there. Given the enormous doctrinal variety, the range of possibilities…
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 of therapeutic targets in PFT. He went further than ever because he reminded us of the importance for therapists to have the objectives (that the…
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 at the ISTFP Supervisors Congress last October 7 in the Italian city of Milan, on how to modify the technique to treat patients with low…
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 Personality Disorders, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital in the United States. TFP has been extensively studied. Kernberg and his team have worked…
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 and understanding of personality disorders is the STIPO, or the Structural Interview for Personality Organization. What is STIPO? The STIPO is a diagnostic interview designed…
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 brings together leading experts in the field of TFP and is held every two years. During this congress, Luis and I participated in an important…
