Transference Focused Psychotherapy, Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissism, with Frank Yeomans, MD
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast
David J Puder
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2025
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. David Puder interviews Dr. Frank Yeomans, a leading expert in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) and personality disorders, to explore the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). They discuss object relations theory, identity diffusion, splitting, and the therapeutic relationship in TFP. Dr. Yeomans shares clinical insights on working with paranoid, devaluing, and omnipotent transferences, highlighting how therapists can navigate idealization, devaluation, and therapeutic neutrality. They also compare TFP with other psychodynamic approaches and discuss the role of aggression in mentalization and personality integration.
- Learn how TFP helps patients develop a stable identity
- Understand the differences between BPD and NPD treatment
- Explore the role of transference in psychotherapy
Tune in for a deep dive into psychodynamic therapy with one of the field’s top experts!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome back to the podcast. I am joined today with Dr. Frank Yomanz. He is an MD-PhD |
| 0:21.5 | prominent psychiatrist, psychotherapist, specializing in personality disorders. |
| 0:26.4 | We'll be talking about borderline personality disorder, |
| 0:28.7 | transference-focused therapy. |
| 0:30.5 | He had his undergraduate at Harvard, graduate at Yale, |
| 0:34.2 | residency at New York Presbyterian. |
| 0:37.3 | He has had a number of professional roles. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm just gonna highlight the most pertinent |
| 0:43.1 | to this discussion. |
| 0:43.9 | He's the president of the International Society of Transference-focused psychotherapy. He wrote two books that I want |
| 0:51.6 | to emphasize. Transfer's focused psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder, a clinical |
| 0:56.1 | guide in 2015, and a primer on transfer's focused psychotherapy for borderline patients |
| 1:02.7 | co-authored with Kernberg. I think both of these were right. |
| 1:06.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.6 | Okay. |
| 1:08.5 | So I should also give credit to Clark and Co-authored |
| 1:11.1 | with Kernberg and John Clark. |
| 1:13.3 | Very yes, thank you. |
| 1:15.4 | So today we wanted to talk about borderline precise, |
| 1:17.8 | so we've talked about it from the perspective |
| 1:20.8 | of mentalization based therapy, |
| 1:22.6 | prior on this podcast, we've talked about it. |
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