4/19/2023 0 Comments Transference focused psychotherapy![]() ![]() The overriding goal of TFP is to change the individual’s internalized self and other relationships that lead to the integration of more mature and flexible conceptions. The goal of TFP is to foster more integrated and complex concepts of self and others through a reactivation in the treatment of the patient’s split, polarized internalized relationship patterns, associated extreme affects and coping mechanisms that characterize those with personality disorders. Maladaptive mental representations of self and others subsume the behavioral and affective dysregulation that characterizes personality disorders. This is carried out in the process by which internalized relationship patterns are reactivated in the relationship with the therapist. ![]() Particular attention is given to the patient’s external as well as internal life, and a set of mutually agreed upon behavioral parameters are designed to control symptoms, limit the expression of destructive behaviours, and foster the full unfolding of the patient’s emotional experience and psychological life. The treatment is conducted twice-weekly and combines elements of standard psychodynamic technique with a higher level of therapist activity. TFP is based on contemporary object relations theory (ORT) and informed by neurocognitive and attachment research. TFP is an empirically validated psychotherapy with the primary focus on the therapeutic relationship to significantly modify the individual’s personality and increase their capacity for a full emotional life with others, to work toward professional ideals and a rich social life, and capacity for mutual dependency in intimate and love relations. ![]() Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is based on a psychodynamic model of understanding and treating Borderline Personality Disorder and other P ersonality Disorders. ![]()
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