Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Adolescents With Severe Personality Disorders
- Lina Normandin, Ph.D.,
- Karin Ensink, Ph.D.,
- Alan Weiner, Ph.D.,
- Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Adolescents With Severe Personality Disorders is a manual for clinicians who wish to learn an effective psychodynamic treatment for young people with personality disorders (PDs). Despite converging evidence that PDs emerge in childhood and are clearly evident in adolescence, research on effective treatments has been limited. The editors have therefore created a book that details treatment models with strong theoretical foundations and examines systematic interventions designed to explore and resolve the conflicts and behaviors, common to PDs, that impede normal adolescent development.
The book begins with an overview of psychopathology and normal adolescent development from a psychodynamic perspective. The next section offers therapeutic approaches, including a discussion of the major goals and strategies of TFP-A, the clinical evaluation and assessment process, establishment of the treatment framework and collaboration with parents, and finally, the techniques and tactics of TFP-A. The last section of the book reviews the phases of treatment and discusses the strengths and competencies a therapist must have to successfully conduct transference-based therapy.
Authored by experts in the field (including Dr. Kernberg, a pioneer in object relations), Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Adolescents (TFP-A) with Severe Personality Disorders teaches clinicians how to conduct TFP-A, with the ultimate goal of resolving the intrapsychic restrictions that interfere with normal adolescent development.
Lina Normandin, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at Universite Laval in Quebec, Canada; director of the Child and Adolescent Research and Treatment Unit; as well as a TFP supervisor and founder member of the ISTFP.
Karin Ensink, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at Universite Laval in Quebec, Canada. She teaches, supervises and does research on the assessment, development and treatment of personality, psychopathology and trauma.
Alan Weiner, Ph.D., is a voluntary faculty member of Weill Cornell Medical College Department of Psychiatry, where he supervises advanced students in psychiatry and psychology, and a consultant in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Payne Whitney Westchester.
Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., is director of the Personality Disorders Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College, professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, and training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York, New York.
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9781615379576 |
| Publisher: | American Psychiatric Publishing |
| Copyright Year: | 2021 |
| Print Date: | April 15, 2021 |
| Online Date: | December 5, 2024 |