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The goal of transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) is identity consolidation—the integration of mutually split off idealized and persecutory internalized object relations in the transference in order to achieve a coherent, realistic, and stable experience of self and others. This internal state of identity consolidation is congruent with emotion regulation and cooperative, positive relationships with others. This goal is achieved by the therapeutic interventions that can be conceptualized at different levels of abstraction and specificity. The strategies of TFP are the overarching approaches defining the sequential steps in the process of interpreting object relations activated in the transference. The techniques are the moment-to-moment interventions of the therapist. Finally, the tactics of TFP are the maneuvers the therapist uses to lay the groundwork for the proper use of interpretation and other treatment techniques. We describe the strategies of TFP in this chapter; the techniques in Chapter 6, “Techniques of Treatment,” and the tactics in Chapter 7, “Tactics of Treatment and Clinical Challenges.”
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