A Primer
for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
for Borderline Personality Disorder
Frank
E. Yeomans, MD, PhD
John F. Clarkin, PhD
Otto F. Kernberg, MD
Published
by
Jason Aronson.
Northvale, NJ (2002)
This
Primer responds to the need for a succinct yet thorough introduction
to TFP. It is written at a level for both beginning therapists and experienced
psychodynamic therapists who want to tailor their work to the borderline
patient.
In the Primer, we have made every effort to explain Transference-Focused-Psychotherapy in a way that is "user-friendly" and practical for the practicing therapist. You can review the Table of Contents to get a sense of how the Primer is organized.
"Yeomans,
Clarkin, and Kernberg's Primer stands out like a beacon to the rest
of the psychodynamic community. In an era of empirically supported therapies,
the work of the Cornell group has shown that it can be done, that it
can be done superbly, and that it can be done without violating a single
one of our cherished ideals as psychoanalytic clinicians. This is an
excellent and immensely helpful introduction to the most successful
program of intervention research on psychodynamic psychotherapy anywhere.
It is a must have."
--Peter Fonagy,
Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College, London
"This new
book is a treat to read!... Even though these patients can give you,
the therapist, a tough time, with the use of TFP you can generally get
good results. This treatment is now spelled-out in this book so that
it really can be learned well... The narratives in this book are told
with great intensity and story telling skill, so the reader, is drawn
into reading just to see how the treatment fared. This is the book to
read to enlarge our ability to treat borderline patients!"
--Lester Luborsky, PhD, Professor of Psychology
in Psychiatry, Center for Psychotherapy Research, University of Pennsylvania
Health System
"This work
emerges from years of research and in-depth clinical experience with
borderline patients, and is richly informed by object relations theory.
It is the best example yet of a manual for psychodynamic psychotherapy.
In providing a clear, organizing framework for how to work with borderline
(as well as other) patients, this book makes explicit the basic principles
of dynamic treatments. It will strike therapists as reflecting how they
think and work more than any other volume that has attempted to systematize
psychodynamic treatment. It provides a wonderfully clear discussion
of the mental organization of borderline patients, a concise description
of the nature of transference-focused psychotherapy, and an overview
of the likely course of treatment with such patients. It ... offers
treatment strategies and specific techniques... This book is a valuable
guide even to experienced clinicians, and will be a real help to therapists
and their patients."
--Enrico Jones
"In this remarkable
volume, Yeomans, Clarkin and Kernberg have accomplished the impossible
by combining a highly sophisticated theory of psychopathology and technique
with a practical handbook for the treatment of borderline patients...
The clinician will... find a detailed step-by-step guide to the complex
process of turning the emotionally intense and often chaotic interactions
generated by these patients into useful psychotherapeutic dialogue.
While this book presents itself as A Primer..., it has much to
offer psychodynamic psychotherapists at all levels of experience in
their treatment of patients at all levels of personality organization."
--Elizabeth L.
Auchincloss, MD, Vice Chair of Graduate Medical Education, Dept of Psychiatry
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
The Personality Disorders Institute
Weill Cornell Medical College
The New York Presbyterian Hospital - Westchester Division
21 Bloomingdale Road
White Plains, New York 10605
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