A Psychodynamic Approach for the General Psychiatrist

Transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), one of the evidence-based treatments for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD), was developed by clinicians steeped in psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy who recognized that their standard treatment approach required significant adjustment to be of use to patients with moderate to severe personality pathology. Although TFP research has focused thus far exclusively on individual psychotherapy with those individuals meeting Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) criteria for BPD, its central principles may have utility for clinicians treating a broader group of patients and in a variety of settings including those in acute care psychiatry. It might

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