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Certification course
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline, Narcissistic, and Other Severe Personality Disorders
teacher
date
time
format & language
MD, PhD,
President of ISTFP
President of ISTFP
London Time
2024
Simultaneous translation into Ukrainian in another audio channel
Frank Yeomans
26, 27, 28 April 2024
11:45-18:30 daily
Online education in English
Total of 4 modules
If you missed a module, you have the option of buying a video recording of it.
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September 15-17, 2023
December 1-3, 2023
February 9-11, 2024
April 26-28, 2024
This Didactic Training covers the Basic and Advanced levels
Stated differently, it covers everything you need for deep and effective treatment of any complex cases, including patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder, as well as for work with adolescents and the treatment of trauma and dissociation.
2023-2024 academic year
Including
Training: every day 11:30–18:30 London time zone
- Lectures
- Discussions of lectures
- Watching pieces of videos of sessions with patients and clinical discussions thereof
- Clinical supervision
- Clinical supervision reviews
- Q&A sessions
A total of 66 hours of didactic training
Information about our course on the official ISTFP website
The main topics of the fourth module
26-28 April 2024
TFP for Adolescents (TFP-A)
Applied TFP
The Supervision Process
Psychological Identity and Social Identity
Transference is a universal phenomenon... and it’s better to be aware of it in any treatment setting
Why and how to apply TFP principles and techniques in processes and contexts other than psychotherapy
This block will be especially useful for doctors, social workers, and professionals in all other fields where we deal with another person, particularly in the contexts of crisis management, family involvement, inpatient psychiatry, medical settings, pharmacotherapy, psychiatry residency training.
Why and how to apply TFP principles and techniques in processes and contexts other than psychotherapy
This block will be especially useful for doctors, social workers, and professionals in all other fields where we deal with another person, particularly in the contexts of crisis management, family involvement, inpatient psychiatry, medical settings, pharmacotherapy, psychiatry residency training.
- A Watchful Stance
- The 3 Channels of Communication… and External Reality
- Things to keep in mind (to the supervisor)
- Goals of supervision
- Common errors
- Countertransference and dissociation
- Recommendations for Supervision
The Essence of TFP
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- Cognitive Changes in Adolescence
- Implications of these Changes
- Conceptualization of the Etiology of Borderline Pathology in Adolescence
- Overall Aim of the Treatment
- SPECIFICITY of TFP-A
- Promoting the Developmental Phase
- Phases for TFP-A
- Assessment
- Structural Features of the Diagnostic System
- The Personality Assessment Interview
- Attachment Interview
- Particularities of the Beginning Phase
- Neutrality - Confidentiality
- Mentalization Capacities
- Developmental Crisis vs. Development Endangerment
- STIPO for TFP-A
- Working with Parents
- Parental Attitudes
- Shared understanding (parent and adolescent) of the problem and clinical judgment about the development endangerment
- Sharing Therapist Understanding of the Problem with Adolescent
- Sharing Therapist Understanding of the Problem with Parents
- Decision about Treatment
- Contract setting
- The Inevitable Presence of the Parents
- Parental Responsibilities and Authority
- Parental Threats to the Treatment
- Parental Investment in the Treatment (Collobaration)
- The Contract with Parent(s)
- Optimal characteristics of parents with adolescents who would benefit from TFP-A
- The Contract with the Adolescent
- Contract – Therapist Responsibilities
- Threats and Challenges to the Treatment
- Building a “Therapeutic Alliance” with the Adolescent / Establishing Personal Goals
- SPECIFIC TECHNIQUES of TFP-A
- Markers of Change and Transition
The main topics of the Third Module
February 9-11, 2024
Pathological narcissism
Treatment of pathological narcissism
Malignant narcissism syndrome
Antisocial personality
- Clinical work with NPD: accurate diagnosis, examination for comorbidities
- The main difficulties for therapists
- Transfer and countertransfer processes. Study of the interaction between the therapist and the patient, the specifics of transference and countertransference in the context of NPD. Specific transfers and countertransfers in narcissism
- Difficulties in the therapy of NPD, expectations of special attitude, resentment of reality, exploitative position, exclusion, "lack of relationships in therapy", a long stage of dominance of the pathological grandiose "Ego". Adaptation of the contract for NPD.
- Techniques for treatment of narcissistic patients
- Working with the pathological grandiose "Ego"
- Definition
- Etiology
- Diagnosis
- Prognostic factors
- Differential diagnosis and impact on prognosis
- Psychodynamics of antisocial personality disorder
- Levels of transfer
- ...Therapy?
Young Adults Who “Fail to Launch”
Trauma and dissociation
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- Borderline personality organization as a basis for narcissistic pathology. Protection against identity diffusion and other unacceptable aspects of one's own personality.
- Specific aspects of the internal constellation of object relations. Normal and pathological narcissism. Self-esteem. Ego-ideal. Aggression. Envy.
- Aggression. Studying the role of aggression in the formation of narcissistic traits and the Super-Ego. Deficits in the value system
- Pathological narcissism: structural features, psychodynamic features, clinical syndromes
- Definition of the syndrome
- Factors underlying the syndrome
- Depth psychodynamics
- Failure to launch syndrome as a manifestation of narcissistic disorder
- Psychological challenges and conflicts
- Conclusions for psychodynamic psychotherapy
- Features of the beginning of therapy and elements of the contract
- Psychotherapy: technique
- The middle stage
- Late phase
special topic
The main topics of the Second Module
December, 1-3, 2023
A brief summary of the main points from the first module
The Treatment Contract for Specific Conditions
The Treatment Techniques
The middle phase of treatment
- Additional treatment tactics
- Selecting the Focus of Attention and Intervention
- Therapeutic Neutrality
- Countertransference
- Interpretation
- Transference Analysis
- A review of the treatment model – summary of mechanisms of action
- Evolution of Treatment and of Transferences
- Termination
- Complications of Treatment
Termination
TFP Adherence Scale
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The main topics of the First Module
September 15-17, 2023
Personality
A Model of Psychological Structure: Object Relations Theory.
What is Transference?
Diagnostics
- How do we view a Personality?
- The structure of personality, personality traits
- How individuals “process” the reality: how they experience themselves in the world.
- Diagnostic System for personality disorders based on the psychological structure
- Similarities and differences to DSM5
The “paranoid-schizoid” split organization and the “depressive” integrated organization – ways of dealing with libido and aggression
- Why this model of personality calls for working with the transference.
- Alternate models of treatment for borderline personality disorders
The Structural Interview
Overview of TFP
- Strategies
- Treatment Tactics
- The beginning of therapy: Discussion of the diagnosis; The treatment contract: an understanding of the method of treatment, the goals, and the conditions of treatment
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You may complete one Module, or you may complete all four
It may be that it is the topics of one Module that you need and which will help you advance significantly. We do not, in any way, insist that you complete the entire Program. We are aware that consideration of even several topics of the TFP model would help to advance significantly. Participants who complete all 4 Modules of the Program will be provided with an additional General Certificate which is mandatory for further certification.
Frank Yeomans
Brilliant professor and renowned psychotherapist
- President of ISTFP
- Director of TFP New York Group
- Head of the team of TFP therapists in a randomized controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of three treatments: dialectical behavioral therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and transference-focused psychotherapy.
- Co-author of almost all guides for the use of TFP
- Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University
- Director of Training at the Personality Disorders Institute
- Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
- Author and co-author of more than 95 books and articles on psychotherapy and psychiatry
teacher
Dr. Yeomans made a short film for you
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is an empirically supported and evidence-based treatment for personality disorders that has proven its efficacy in numerous studies (2001, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2015, and others).
What is the value of TFP?
More information about the research at TFP:
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The TFP has treatment phases: opening, middle, termination. Its fundamental objective is the change in the personality structures: from the borderline splitting to the integration of the split-off representations and the creation of an integrated sense of the patient’s identity and experience of others.
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy is a structural psychotherapy based on:
A well-established and thoroughly elaborated clinical and theoretical model of the psyche
The treatment scheme that follows from it and has well-established (manualized) techniques, tactics, and strategies.
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First empirical outcome research
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
The following RCT
The first three uncontrolled ones (Clarkin et al. 2001, Cuevas et al. 2000, Lopez et al. 2004) demonstrated significant improvements in psychopathology, self-mutilizing behavior, and psychiatric hospitalizations after one year of TFP.
A study published in 2007 compared transfer-focused psychotherapy (TFP), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and psychodynamic supportive therapy (PST) among 90 patients with borderline disorder over a year. All three methods improved overall functioning and social adaptation, and reduced depression and anxiety. TFP and DBT reduced suicidality, TFP and PST improved aspects of impulsivity, while only TFP reduced anger, irritability and aggression, significantly improved reflective function, and (!) changed the attachment style, 28.6% of patients moved from an insecure attachment style to a secure one in one year, which was not achieved by patients in DBT and PST.
Publication in 2010. In the treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder, TFP was compared to therapy with experienced community psychotherapists. The study was conducted for one year in Munich and Vienna on 104 patients. The results demonstrate a significant advantage of TFP with regard to the primary outcome criteria - the rate of early interruption of therapy and suicide attempts. The same was true for the secondary outcome measures, i.e., reductions in DSM-IV borderline disorder diagnostic criteria, psychosocial functioning, level of personality organization, and psychiatric hospitalizations.
A randomized controlled trial (RCT) is a type of medical study in which participants are randomly divided into groups, one of which receives the study treatment and the other (control) uses standard methods or a placebo. The scientific validity of the findings is determined using statistical methods. RCTs are the basis of evidence-based medicine.
The subsequent RCTs for empirical outcome research were in 2015 and 2022. Some research is in progress.
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This is your chance to learn the essence of psychoanalysis
You too can learn to work like this: efficiently, with a full understanding of what is happening to the patient and what to do about it
Our Complete Didactic Training covers the Basic and Advanced levels
Our Didactic Certification Training consists of 4 Modules and covers the Basic and Advanced levels, namely:
Please note that you may register for a single module or the entire training program.
Personality and Identity
Diagnostic System
A Model of Psychological Structure: Object Relations Theory
What is Transference?
The Structural Interview
Overview of TFP: Strategies, Treatment Tactics
The Beginning of Therapy: Discussion of the Diagnosis, the Treatment Contract
The Treatment Contract
Additional Treatment Tactics
Evolution of Treatment and of Transferences
Treatment Techniques Therapeutic Neutrality, Countertransference, Interpretation, Transference Analysis
Termination
Complications of Treatment
TFP Adherence Scale
Pathological Narcissism
TFP for Pathological Narcissism
Malignant Narcissism and Anti-Social Personality
The “Failure to Launch” Syndrome
Trauma and Dissociation
TFP for Adolescents
Applied TFP*
The Supervision Process for the Supervisor’s Perspective
Psychological Identity and Social Identity
The Essence of TFP
Basic level
Advanced level
Start with the basics
heading for a high level
Applied TFP: the use of TFP principles not only in psychotherapy, but also in any other situations where there are professional relationships with difficult clients - clinic, helpline, volunteering, etc. - in order to gain an understanding of what is happening, formulate interventions that are appropriate for the purpose, and prevent burnout.
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Who will benefit from this material?
The TFP integrates the clinical concepts of Freud’s theory, British object relations theory, ego psychology, the Kleinian approach, and modernizes these in line with modern neuroscience discoveries.
This TFP course creates a solid foundation for virtuoso and advanced work with our patients. For such work, which will protect you from burnout
Psychoanalytic Therapists
Other-modality psychotherapists
Psychiatrists
A preliminary study of psychoanalysis would be of help when mastering TFP. This would collect all your prior Psychoanalysis knowledge into a single system. It would be immediately evident to Psychoanalytic Therapists what kind of internal issues the patient has and how to work with them so that this does not lead to a drop-out or to the transformation of therapy into a perpetual process but leads to the achievement of therapy goals via the shortest routes.
Practitioners in various forms of psychotherapy, as well as those trained in integrative methods, may learn TFP and use it effectively. In this situation, a bit more work might be necessary, but the outcome is worthwhile.
The TFP model can also be applied in psychiatry, both inpatient and outpatient, in the doctor-patient relationship to increase adherence (one unit will be devoted to this in the last Module of our Training).
What do students say about us?
I also thank Oleksiy very much for the opportunity to learn from such an incredible specialist! I am in awe of the way Dr. Yeomans works with clients, his acceptance of clients and the way he is able to articulate complex things gently. Incredible organization, great translators! I'll back you up for the next module!
Organizers can be narcissistically admired. Everything is perfect. Many thanks! I look forward to the next seminars. Everything is very collegial, accessible, clinically useful
Thank you for the seminar and especially for such an interesting analysis of supervisions already on the 1st module. This clearly shows the method. And I`m ready to go to the next module!
I join my colleagues - a great organization, thank you, Oleksiy! And an excellent translation. Great gratitude to Dr. Yeomans for sharing his knowledge and experience. Worth it!
Thanks to Frank Yeomans for valuable communication, desire to provide knowledge, sincerity and correctness in communication
I also want to thank you for the excellently organized, very useful and informative training, professional work of the translators. I look forward to further actions
Great organization and the seminar itself! I look forward to the next event ❤️ Many thanks to Oleksiy and Dr. Yeomans, and everyone involved!
Thank you very much, highly topical program, very interesting and saturated materials. There is something to think about. and special thanks for the articles!
Thank you very much, Oleksiy, for this opportunity, and special thanks for the organization!
Cool organization, translators and special satisfaction from a clear setting
Discover new growth opportunities for yourself
The understanding of the psyche based on Otto Kernberg's object relations model, as well as Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, developed specifically for the treatment of severe personality disorders, opens up new horizons - what previously seemed untreatable becomes a normal level of your professionalism.
To obtain a general certificate which is mandatory for further certification in the TFP model, you need to be present online at each Module.
Access to the full Course
2,182
USD
benefit -12%
Include videos of the all passed Modules and access to all Modules in future.
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First module
Second module
$620
$620
standart price
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Access to the recording of a 3-day seminar in English for 12 months
Access to the faculty presentation
Access to articles on the topic
Access to anamneses and transcripts of sessions discussed in the supervisions
Member package
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$620
Fourth module
Access to the recording of a 3-day seminar in English for 12 months
Access to the faculty presentation
Access to articles on the topic
Access to anamneses and transcripts of sessions discussed in the supervisions
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Third module
$620
standart price
Member package
Access to the recording of a 3-day seminar in English for 12 months
Access to the faculty presentation
Access to articles on the topic
Access to anamneses and transcripts of sessions discussed in the supervisions
Access to the recording of a 3-day seminar in English for 12 months
Access to the faculty presentation
Access to articles on the topic
Access to anamneses and transcripts of sessions discussed in the supervisions
ANY QUESTIONS? WE HAVE THE ANSWERS!
Answers to your questions
All mental health professionals: psychologists, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists. The TFP knowledge and model can be used for separate psychological consultations, for diagnosing and understanding the causes of clinical symptoms, when organizing and supporting treatment in psychiatry (both outpatient and inpatient), but TFP brings the greatest benefit to patients in the long-term therapy, from 1 year.
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A few days after the seminar, we will send you an email with access to the video recording.
For 12 months from the date the access email was sent.