Abstract
Transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) has been introduced to psychiatry residency training in a number of pilot programs. The introduction of TFP to residency training has multiple goals: the instruction about an empirically validated treatment for patients with borderline personality disorder and, more broadly, the introduction of a set of tools of use to residents in the varying clinical settings where they see patients, even if they are not engaging these patients in an extended individual psychotherapy. TFP principles including use of the structural interview, the benefits of treatment contracting, and active monitoring of countertransference are of particular benefit to trainees in psychiatry given their training and required service commitments. Residents can benefit from exposure to TFP even if they do not plan to practice individual psychotherapy after completion of training.
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Hersh, R.G., Caligor, E., Yeomans, F.E. (2016). Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) Principles in Psychiatry Residency Training. In: Fundamentals of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44091-0_8
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