What is Transference Focused Psychotherapy?
Transference Focused Psychotherapy is an individual psychoanalytic treatment designed particularly for borderline patients. This therapy focuses on revealing the underlying causes of a patient’s borderline condition and working to build new, healthier ways for the patient to think and behave. The Theory Behind TFP A distinguishing feature of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy is the theory that a borderline patient’s perception of self, and of others, is split into unrealistic extremes of bad and good. These conflicting dyads are thought be expressed through the specific self-destructive symptoms of Borderline PD. In the course of normal psychological development, dyads based on experience become integrated into a unified whole, resulting in a mature and flexible sense of self. However, in borderline individuals, these separate dyads do not become integrated. Instead, dyads associated with sharply different emotions exist independently from one another and contribute to the roller coas
