Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder: An Object Relations Approach. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) is an empirically validated psychodynamic psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder (BPD), based on object relations theory, that has clinical utility for individuals with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Given the effectiveness of TFP for patients with BPD, including a number of patients with comorbid NPD, we have adapted the tactics and techniques of TFP with specific modifications for patients with NPD or narcissistic traits. TFP for NPD (TFP-N) retains core elements of the treatment, including a contracting phase and an interpretive process designed to identify and modify maladaptive mental representations of self and others that underlie the affect and behavioral dysregulation in those with personality disorders including NPD. The major goal of TFP-N is the focus on disturbed interpersonal patterns of relating in the here-and-now of the therapeutic interaction as a vehicle to effect enduring changes in personality organization and real-world changes in the areas of love and work.

publication date

  • March 1, 2020

Research

keywords

  • Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85082001868

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1521/pedi.2020.34.supp.159

PubMed ID

  • 32186988

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 34

issue

  • Suppl