Psychotherapy for Borederline Personality

Abstract

This book describes an approach for working with borderline patients called the transference focused psychotherapy (TFP). The TFP is a sophisticated variant of psychodynamic interventions centering on the analysis of the transference. This approach provides sufficient clinical structure to contain the destructive forces that can undermine the therapeutic process while remaining flexible enough to allow the therapist the freedom to safely interact with and respond constructively to the roles thrust upon him or her by the borderline patient. TPF's main goal is to bring a patient's unconscious conflicts to the surface so that they can be actively worked through by the client and the therapist within a rigorous clinical framework. In this book, the authors describe TFP principles and methods and provide clear guidelines on how to apply them to individual patients on a session-by-session basis. With the help of numerous vignettes and case examples, the authors clearly lay outline the various stages of the TFP therapeutic process, from initial assessment to termination. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)