Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning

This outstanding new volume by Caligor, Kernberg, Clarkin, and Yeomans introduces Dynamic Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders (DPD), a flexible treatment strategy based on object relations theory. Impairment in self and interpersonal functioning is a central focus of DPD, an approach that aligns well with newer dimensional models of personality pathology, such as the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders in Section III of DSM-5. The authors are known worldwide for their unrivaled expertise in psychodynamic psychotherapy and they are clearly, as this book illustrates, at the top of their game. --John M. Oldham, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Barbara and Corbin Robertson Jr. Endowed Chair for Personality Disorders, Baylor College of Medicine

This volume is the capstone of a trilogy, beginning with a treatment manual for transference-focused psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder, then going on to therapy for less serious personality disorders, and finally to this comprehensive overview. Enriched by many clinical vignettes and informed by a huge amount of clinical experience, it has a place on the bookshelf of any clinician who works with these patients. --Robert Michels, M.D., Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, Cornell University

Providing an integrated, innovative synthesis of contemporary psychodynamic approaches to psychotherapy embedded in a contemporary model of psychopathology, Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning introduces Transference-Focused Psychotherapy -- Extended (TFP-E), a specialized, theory-driven approach to the treatment of personality disorders.

This guide is both compatible with the DSM-5 Section III Alternative Model for Personality Disorders and elaborates on it, offering clinicians at all levels of experience an accessible framework to guide evaluation and treatment of personality disorders in a broad variety of clinical and research settings.

Patient assessment and basic psychodynamic techniques are described in up-to-date, jargon-free terms and supported by numerous clinical vignettes, as well as online videos demonstrating interventions. At the end of each chapter, readers will find a summary of key clinical concepts, making this volume both a quick reference tool as well as a springboard for continued learning.

Deftly combining contemporary theory with clinical practice, Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning is an invaluable resource for any clinician seeking a coherent model of personality functioning and pathology, classification, and assessment.