Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is an psychoanalytic psychotherapy developed at Cornell University under the leadership of Otto Kernberg to address the borderline condition. TFP helps borderline patients achieve change in both symptoms and personality structure. The lecture will describe this therapy and discuss the challenges of modifying general psychoanalytic technique for a specific patient population and of attempting to standardize a psychoanalytic treatment.  TFP represents a major effort to address empirical research in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Frank E. Yoemans, M.D., Ph.D. is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Director of Training at the Personality Disorders Institute of Weill-Cornell, Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and Director of the Personality Studies Institute in Manhattan. Dr. Yeomans' primary interests are the development, investigation, teaching, and practice of psychotherapy for personality disorders. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles and books, including A Primer on Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for the Borderline Patient, and Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality: Focusing on Object Relations, co-authored with Drs. John Clarkin and Otto Kernberg. He was the head of the team of TFP therapists in the RCT reported on in the article "Evaluating three treatments for borderline personality disorder: a multiwave study" that appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry in June 2007.

New Center for Psychoanalysis

$20 fee for 2 CE/CME Credits