Going Deeper Into Transference-Focused Psychotherapy:
Details of the Diagnostic and Contracting Processes and Their Crucial Role Throughout the Therapy
This live, online only, interactive two-day program with Master TFP Clinician Frank Yeomans, MD. PhD offers a refresher of basic TFP techniques and a sharp focus on the diagnostic phase of treatment with implementation of the TFP Contract, including the methodology, reasoning, and evidence which supports contracting with difficult patients suffering from personality disorders.

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is a manualized, evidence-based psychoanalytic therapy for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) that has recently been adapted for patients with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and pathological narcissism (PN).

TFP is based on a contemporary object relations model of psychological functioning that incorporates findings from attachment and neurocognitive research. The treatment focuses on internalized representations of self and other that organize the patient’s interpersonal experience.

PRESENTER:
Frank Yeomans, MD, PhD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College, Director of Training at the Personality Disorders Institute of Weill-Cornell, and Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. He is president of the International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and past Chair of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Psychotherapy, Dr. Yeomans’ primary interests are the development, investigation, teaching, and practice of psychotherapy for personality disorders. He headed the specialized unit for patients with Borderline Personality Disorder at Weill Cornell Medical Center for ten years and has subsequently focused on the practice and teaching of TFP nationally and internationally.