TFP decreases self-destructive behavior, improves affect regulation, and targets interpersonal difficulties that interfere with an individual s ability to function at work and in relationships.
Improvement is a result of fundamental change in personality structure.
Participants should have clinical experience treating patients with personality disorders and an understanding of basic psychodynamic principles. Learn the latest in adjunctive psychopharmacological treatment Faculty of the Weill Cornell Medical College Otto F. Kernberg, MD, FAPA is director of the Personality Disorders Institute and Professor of Psychiatry. He is a training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Pamela A. Foelsch, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry. She is Director of Training in the Personality Disorders Institute and in private practice in White Plains.