A Primer of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for the Borderline Patient

by Frank E. Yeomans, M.D. ’81, John F. Clarkin and Otto F. Kernberg

Jason Aronson (Northvale, N.J.) 2002

Transference-Focused Therapy (TFP) is a psychodynamic treatment designed especially for borderline patients. This book provides a concise and comprehensive introduction to TFP that will be useful to both experienced clinicians and students of psychotherapy. TFP has its roots in object relations and it emphasizes that transference is the key to understanding and producing change.