Transference focused psychotherapy: Overview and update

International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 601-620

  Kemberg, Otto F ^a,b,c   Yeomans, Frank E ^a,b,d   Clarkin, John F ^a,b   Levy, Kenneth N ^a,e  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research ^*  (United States)

^d Personality Studies Institute   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Borderline personality disorder; Comparative analysis of psychotherapeutic treatments; Interpretation; Object relations theory; Psychoanalytic psychotherapies; Randomized controlled trials; Splitting mechanisms; Technical neutrality; Transference analysis

Indexed keywords

ACTING OUT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALCOHOLISM; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BORDERLINE STATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EATING DISORDER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NARCISSISM; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OBJECT RELATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOPATHY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSFERENCE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESSES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 46249124727     PISSN: 00207578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2008.00046.x     Document Type: Review

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