Table of Contents

ForewordPrefaceVideo GuideChapter 1. Introduction: A Model of Treatment Targeting Self and Interpersonal Functioning Section I: Personality and Personality Disorders Through the Lens of Object Relations TheoryChapter 2. Personality and Personality Disorders Within the Framework of Object Relations TheoryChapter 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 TreatmentChapter 4. Basic Tasks and Elements of Treatment Chapter 5. The Therapeutic Relationship: The Therapist's Attitude and Stance, the Therapeutic Alliance, Transference, and CountertransferenceChapter 6. Strategies of Treatment and Mechanisms of Change Section III: The Skillful ConsultationChapter 7. Patient Assessment and Treatment Planning Section IV: Establishing the Treatment FrameChapter 8. Essential Treatment Contracting: Behaviors, Adjunctive Treatments, and MedicationSection V: Techniques and Tactics of TFP-EChapter 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 ProcessChapter 12. Intervening III: Integrating Supportive and Exploratory InterventionsSection VI: Phases of Treatment and Trajectories of ChangeChapter 13. Early, Middle, and Advanced Phases of TreatmentChapter 14. AfterwordAppendix: Helpful ResourcesIndex

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.