“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…
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…
