Handbook of Dynamic Psychotherapy for Higher Level Personality Pathology

This is a very good book and methodology for the treatment of patients who are functional in most areas of their life but continue to have problems secondary to their personality issues. The breakdown of the guidelines from overall goals to moment to moment interactions in session is well done. The clinical examples are extremely useful in illustrating treatment points. * Doody's Book Review Service * As an extension of TFP to the therapy of higher level personality pathology, this text fills an important theoretical and clinical gap in the psychoanalytic literature. To my knowledge, it is the first psychoanalytic work to address work with this population. It expands psychoanalytic expertise into areas covered previously by cognitively oriented authors. * PsycCRITIQUES *

Eve Caligor, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst and Director of the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Division at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City. Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., is Director of the Personality Disorders Institute at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, New York City. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and is a past president of the International Psychoanalytic Association. John F. Clarkin, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Personality Disorder Institute at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division, and Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University in New York City. He is Past President of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research.

Preface About the Authors Chapter 1. Introduction and overview Part I: Theoretical Understanding of Higher Level Personality Pathology Chapter 2. A psychodynamic approach to personality pathology Chapter 3. Internal object relations, mental organization, and subjective experience in personality pathology Part II: Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Higher Level Personality Pathology Chapter 4. The basic elements of DPHP Chapter 5. The strategies of DPHP and the treatment setting Chapter 6. The techniques of DPHP, part 1: listening to the patient Chapter 7. The techniques of DPHP, part 2: intervening Chapter 8. The tactics of DPHP Part III: Patient Assessment, Phases of Treatment, and Combining DPHP With Other Treatments Chapter 9. Patient assessment and differential treatment planning Chapter 10. The phases of treatment Chapter 11. Combining DPHP with medication management and other forms of treatment Chapter 12. Concluding comments References Index