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One of the goals of the PDI has been to systematically describe the treatment we have developed for borderline patients. The following books explain our understanding of borderline personality and how to treat it. The PDI completed data analysis on the randomized, controlled trial of three treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder, and the article is under review (Clarkin, Levy, Lenzenweger, Kernberg, Evaluating three treatments for borderline personality disorder: A multiwave study). The follow-up of the 90 patients in the treatment study continues. A new version of the treatment manual describing a psychodynamic treatment
for borderline patients shaped by the theorizing of Otto Kernberg has
been published recently: In addition to the manual describing a psychodynamic treatment for
borderline personality disorder, our group has also completed a treatment
manual for patients with less severe personality disorders: Other publications have focused on attentional and executive controls
in borderline patients, identity, attachment patterns in these patients,
and mechanisms of change in the treatment: Kernberg, O.F., Diamond, D., Yeomans, F., Clarkin, J.F., & Levy, K. (In press). Mentalization and attachment in borderline patients in transference focused psychotherapy. In: E. Jurist & A. Slade (Eds.), The Future of Psychoanalysis: Mentalization, Representation and Internalization. New York: Other Press. Fertuck, E.A., Lenzenweger, M.F., & Clarkin, J.F. (2005). The association between attentional and executive controls in the expression of borderline personality disorder features: A preliminary study. Psychopathology, 38, 75-81. Kernberg, O.F. (In press). Identity: Recent findings and clinical implications. Psychoanalytic Quarterly. Levy, K.N., Meehan, K.B., Weber, M., Reynoso, J., & Clarkin, J.F. (2005). Attachment and borderline personality disorder: Implications for psychotherapy. Psychopathology, 38, 64-74. Hoermann, S., Clarkin, J.F., Hull, J.W., & Levy, K.N. (2005). The construct of effortful control: An approach to borderline personality disorder heterogeneity. Psychopathology, 38, 82-86. Levy, K.N., Meehan, K.B., Reynoso, J.S., Lenzenweger, M.F., Clarkin, J.F., & Kernberg, O.F. (2005). The relation of reflective function to neurocognitive functioning in patients with borderline personality disorder. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 53, 1305-1309. Clarkin, J.F., & Levy, K.N. (2006). Psychotherapy for patients with borderline personality disorder: Focusing on the mechanisms of change. Special issue of Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62, 405-516. Levy, K.N., Clarkin, J.F., Yeomans, F.E., Scott, L., Wasserman, R., & Kernberg, O.F. (2006). The mechanisms of change in the treatment of borderline personality disorder with transference focused psychotherapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62, 481-501. Kernberg, O.F. (In press). The almost untreatable narcissistic patient. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Kernberg, O.F. (In press). Countertransference: Recent developments and technical implications for the treatment of patients with severe personality disorders. In: B. vanLuyn, S. Akhtar, & J. Livesley (Eds.), Severe Personality Disorders: Major Issues in Everyday Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fertuck, E.A., Lenzenweger, M.F., Clarkin, J.F., Hoermann, S., & Stanley, B. (In press). Executive neurocognition, memory systems, and borderline personality disorder. Clinical Psychology Review. Other publications have focused on the nature of personality disorders, and their treatment: Lenzenweger, M.F., & Clarkin, J.F. (2005). Major theories of personality disorder. 2nd Edition. New York: Guilford. Yeomans, F.E., Clarkin, J.F., & Levy, K.N. (2005). Psychodynamic psychotherapies. In : Oldham, J.M., Skodol, A.E., & Bender, D.S. (Eds.), Textbook of personality disorders. Washington,DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, pp. 275-288. Levy, K., Clarkin, J.F., & Reynoso, J.S. (In press). Narcissistic Personality Disorder. In: Fowler, K.A., & O’Donohue, W. (Eds.), Handbook of Personality Disorders. Sage. H. Fernandez-Alvarez, Clarkin, J.F., Salgueiro, M., & Critchfield, K.L. (2006). Participant factors in treating personality disorders. In: Castonguay, L.G., & Beutler, L.E. (Eds.), Principles of therapeutic change that work. New York: Oxford University Press. John Clarkin, the co-director of the PDI, delivered the Presidential Address to the Society for Psychotherapy Research on the topic of the personality disorders and the work of the PDI: Clarkin, J.F. (2006). Conceptualization and treatment of personality disorders. Psychotherapy Research, 16, 1-11. Members of the PDI have presented theoretical issues and data analyses at various conferences in the U.S. and Europe. This includes seminars at the American Psychiatric Association (Kernberg, Caligor, Clarkin, Yeomans), Madrid, Spain (Clarkin), German Psychiatric Association, Berlin (Clarkin), Amsterdam (Clarkin, Yeomans), UCSF Conference in Honor of Robert Wallerstein (Kernberg), Copenhagen (Clarkin), Icelandic Psychiatric Association (Yeomans, Clarkin), University of New Mexico Medical School (Clarkin), Wisconsin Psychological Association (Clarkin), conferences sponsored by the National Educational Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEWBPD) in Dallas, Los Angeles, London (Yeomans). The PDI has made outreach to families who have members with severe personality disorders and potential donors through the creation of a newsletter, edited by Dr. Pamela Foelsch. The PDI and the Borderline Disorder Research Foundation sponsored a conference on the assessment and treatment of adolescents with severe personality disorders. Dr. Paulina Kernberg was the principle organizer of this conference, combined with administrative organization by Jill Delaney.
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