Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Video Guide
Chapter 1. Introduction: A Model of Treatment Targeting Self and Interpersonal Functioning
Section I: Personality and Personality Disorders Through the Lens of Object Relations Theory
Chapter 2. Personality and Personality Disorders Within the Framework of Object Relations Theory
Chapter 3. Clinical Psychodynamics Within the Framework of Object Relations Theory: Conflict, Anxiety, Defense, and Internal Object Relations
Section II: Overview of TFP-E: Basic Tasks, the Therapeutic Relationship, and Strategies of Treatment
Chapter 4. Basic Tasks and Elements of Treatment
Chapter 5. The Therapeutic Relationship: The Therapist's Attitude and Stance, the Therapeutic Alliance, Transference, and Countertransference
Chapter 6. Strategies of Treatment and Mechanisms of Change
Section III: The Skillful Consultation
Chapter 7. Patient Assessment and Treatment Planning
Section IV: Establishing the Treatment Frame
Chapter 8. Essential Treatment Contracting: Behaviors, Adjunctive Treatments, and Medication
Section V: Techniques and Tactics of TFP-E
Chapter 9. Identifying a Focus for Intervention
Chapter 10. Intervening I: Exploratory Interventions and the Interpretive Process
Chapter 11. Intervening II: Transference Analysis and Tactics Guiding the Interpretive Process
Chapter 12. Intervening III: Integrating Supportive and Exploratory Interventions
Section VI: Phases of Treatment and Trajectories of Change
Chapter 13. Early, Middle, and Advanced Phases of Treatment
Chapter 14. Afterword
Appendix: Helpful Resources
Index

About the Author

Eve Caligor, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Director of the Psychotherapy Division and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York, New York.

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, New York, New York.

John F. Clarkin, Ph.D., is Codirector of the Personality Disorders Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College and Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.

Frank E. Yeomans, M.D., Ph.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Director of Training at the Personality Disorders Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York, New York.