This is a two-day program. Registration is only available for the full two days. Check in starts at 8 AM each day. The program presentation is from 8:30 AM to 5 PM See below for full schedule.
The New Center for Psychoanalysis and TFP New York present a two-day training in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
NCP, in association with TFP New York, presents the two-day training “TFP for Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism” with Master TFP Clinicians Diana Diamond, PhD and Frank Yeomans, MD.
In this two-day follow up to last year’s training, day one offerings will focus on TFP method of interpretation, working with dyads and the Dominant Object relation. Day two will focus on TFP for NPD, dissolution of the “Grandiose Self.”
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.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 26
Day One will focus on working with patients with personality disorders organized at the borderline level with special emphasis on TFP tactics: the Structural interview, Contract Setting, and identifying Dominant Object Relations.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 27
Day Two will focus on TFP for Narcissistic Personality Disorder with an emphasis on the Grandiose Self that separates NPD from other personality disorders and make it especially challenging to work with.
Diana Diamond, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who specializes in theory, research, and treatment of borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. She is Professor Emerita in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York and Senior Fellow at the Personality Disorders Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is also a professor in the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and is on the faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is the recipient of several awards, including most recently the Aaron Stern distinguished visiting professor award from Weill Cornell Medical College for her contributions to understanding the etiology and treatment of narcissistic pathology. She is an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and heads their research committee for the Department of Psychoanalytic Education. Dr. Diamond currently teaches, lectures, and supervises TFP nationally and internationally, and is in private practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in New York City and Sag Harbor, NY.
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 the Weill Cornell Medical Center for ten years and has subsequently focused on the practice and teaching of TFP nationally and internationally.
In addition to their individual published works, Dr. Diamond and Dr Yeomans have co-authored Treating Narcissistic Pathology with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy with Barry Stern and Otto Kernberg.
