Die Übertragungsfokussierte Psychotherapie (TFP) ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Psychotherapiemethode welche auf einer umfangreichen Forschungsgrundlage steht. Im Folgenden finden Sie einige Empfehlungen zur Einführung und zur Vertiefung in der TFP Methode.
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Ausgewählte wissenschaftliche Publikationen zur TFP:
, 2026. Development and Validation of the Clinical Confidence and Psychodynamic Skills in Personality Disorder Questionnaire.  Personal Ment Health 20(3):e70082 , 2026. "I've built a good life for myself": A qualitative study of patient-perceived change in transference-focused psychotherapy.  Psychother Res. , 2026. Paranoia, experiential avoidance, and narcissism as predictors of outcome in residential treatment of borderline personality disorder.  Front Psychiatry 17:1728221 , 2026. Guidance for Family Engagement With Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder: Integrating Principles From Transference-Focused Psychotherapy and Good Psychiatric Management.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 54(1):97-109 , 2026. Utilizing Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Interventions in Group Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 54(1):49-75 , 2026. From bench to bedside: Examining the interpersonal and affective context of borderline personality disorder as it unfolds over time in psychotherapy.  J Psychopathol Clin Sci 135(1):158-169 , 2025. The contribution of transference-focused psychotherapy in general adult psychiatry training: improving trainees' technical confidence and attitude towards people with personality disorders.  BJPsych Bull. , 2025. Some Observations on Paleologic Thinking in Borderline Personality Disorder.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 53(3):294-300 , 2025. The Role of Goals in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP): An Organizing Principle in the Treatment of Personality Disorders.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 53(3):337-356 , 2025. Emotion word repertoire in the adult attachment interview predicts a reduction of non-suicidal self-injury in the psychotherapy of borderline personality disorder.  BMC Psychiatry 25(1):832 , 2025. Clinical Evidence, Triangulation of Perspectives, and Contextualization. Part 2: Ending an Endless Process.  Psychoanal Q 94(3):457-495 , 2025. How to integrate physiological data from wearables in treatment of personality disorders: a narrative review.  Front Psychiatry 16:1591871 , 2025. Training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.  Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 34(3):493-509 , 2025. Übersichtsarbeiten / Review Articles. Funktionsniveau der Persönlichkeit in der Adoleszenz: Psychologische und biologische Aspekte im Kontext von Diagnostik und Therapie / Level of Personality Functioning in Adolescence: Psychological and Biological Aspects in the Context of Diagnosis and Therapy.  Prax Kinderpsychol Kinderpsychiatr 74(3):233-255 , 2025. Transference-focused psychotherapy in an inpatient setting for borderline personality disorders: changes in symptomatology.  Res Psychother 28. , 2025. Clinical Pearls: Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.  Am J Psychother 78(1):70-75 , 2024. Borderline Personality Disorder: A Comprehensive Review of Current Diagnostic Practices, Treatment Modalities, and Key Controversies.  Cureus 16(12):e75893 , 2024. Teaching transference focused psychotherapy to South African mental health practitioners.  S Afr J Psychiatr 30:2315 , 2024. Originalarbeiten / Original Articles. Schulabsentismus als Funktionsbeeinträchtigung von Jugendlichen mit Persönlichkeitsstörungen gemäß ICD-11 / School Absence as Functional Impairment of Juveniles with Personality Disorders Based on ICD-11.  Prax Kinderpsychol Kinderpsychiatr 73(8):700-718 , 2024. Treating Narcissistic Disorders in General Psychiatry: Practical Application of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Principles.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 52(2):150-172 , 2024. Transference interpretation and psychotherapy outcome: a systematic review of a no-consensus relationship.  Res Psychother 27. , 2024. Clinical Evidence, Triangulation of Perspectives and Contextualization. Part 1: The Beginning of Carla's Treatment.  Psychoanal Q 93(1):33-76 , 2024. [On the Admission of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder to Outpatient Psychotherapy].  Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol 74(2):70-77 , 2024. A case report of the treatment of narcissistic personality disorder with transference focused psychotherapy.  J Clin Psychol 80(5):1177-1191 , 2024. Psychotherapies for the treatment of borderline personality disorder: A systematic review.  J Consult Clin Psychol 92(5):275-295 , 2023. [Implications on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Pathology in Adolescents Based on the Sequelae of the Covid-19 Pandemic].  Prax Kinderpsychol Kinderpsychiatr 72(7):605-624 , 2023. Evaluating Change in Transference, Interpersonal Functioning, and Trust Processes in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Single-Case Study Using Ecological Momentary Assessment.  J Pers Disord 37(5):490-507 , 2023. Trust in Therapeutic Work With Adolescents With and Without Personality Disorders: A Transference-Focused Therapy Perspective.  J Pers Disord 37(5):580-603 , 2023. Transference-Focused Psychotherapy and Trust Processing in BPD: Exploring Possible Mechanisms of Change.  J Pers Disord 37(5):620-632 , 2023. Videoconferencing psychotherapy from a psychodynamic point of view. A qualitative analysis.  Front Psychiatry 14:1235478 , 2023. Developments in Group Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 51(3):311-329 , 2023. Should we be so radical as to overlook facts?  J R Soc Med 116(7):228 , 2023. The Sound of Silence: Engaging the Quiet Adolescent.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 51(2):185-205 , 2023. [Towards a pragmatic cohabitation of theoretical and clinical models: The example of "Good Psychiatric Management" in the treatment of borderline personality disorder].  Encephale 49(4):422-429 , 2023. Object Relations-Informed Psychotherapy: Introduction to Festschrift Honoring Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.  Am J Psychother 76(1):1-2 , 2023. An Integrated Developmental Approach to Personality Disorders in Adolescence: Expanding Kernberg's Object Relations Theory.  Am J Psychother 76(1):9-14 , 2023. Changes in Attachment Representation and Personality Organization in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.  Am J Psychother 76(1):31-38 , 2023. Hatred, Emptiness, and Hope: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy in Personality Disorders.  Am J Psychother 76(1):51 , 2023. The Development of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy and Its Model of Supervision.  Am J Psychother 76(1):46-50 , 2023. Empirical Developments in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.  Am J Psychother 76(1):39-45 , 2023. Reflective functioning and its potential to moderate the efficacy of manualized psychodynamic therapies versus other treatments for borderline personality disorder.  J Consult Clin Psychol 91(1):50-56 , 2023. [Transference focused psychotherapy and mentalization based treatment. Εvidence based psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder].  Psychiatriki 34(2):143-154 , 2022. Borderline Personality Disorder and Psychosis: A Case Managed by Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.  Focus (Am Psychiatr Publ) 20(4):397-401 , 2022. [Evidence-based psychotherapeutic methods of prevention and intervention in suicidal behaviour].  Neuropsychopharmacol Hung 24(4):170-179 , 2022. Conversion to Transference-Focused Psychotherapy from Other Treatments by the Same Therapist: Pitfalls and Benefits.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 50(4):622-638 , 2022. Depression in Fibromyalgia Patients May Require Low-Dose Naltrexone to Respond: A Case Report.  Cureus 14(2):e22677 , 2022. Trading Patients: Applying the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders to Two Cases of DSM-5 Borderline Personality Disorder Over Time and Across Therapists.  Front Psychol 13:794624 , 2022. Transference-focused psychotherapy as an aid to learning psychodynamic psychotherapy: qualitative analysis of UK psychiatry trainees' views.  BJPsych Bull 46(1):57-63 , 2021. [Reduction of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) in Adolescents with Borderline Personality Organization Treated with TFP-A].  Prax Kinderpsychol Kinderpsychiatr 70(8):728-747 , 2021. Extensions of Psychoanalytic Technique: The Mutual Influences of Standard Psychoanalysis and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 49(4):506-531 , 2021. In-session reflective functioning in psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder: The emotion regulatory role of reflective functioning.  J Consult Clin Psychol 89(9):751-761 , 2021. Autism Case Report: Cause and Treatment of "High Opioid Tone" Autism.  Front Psychol 12:657952 , 2021. Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Pathological Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (TFP-N).  Psychodyn Psychiatry 49(2):244-272 , 2021. Thoughts on Transference Analysis in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 49(2):178-187 , 2021. TFP Extended: Development and Recent Advances.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 49(2):188-214 , 2021. Applied Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: An Overview and Update.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 49(2):273-295 , 2021. Good Psychiatric Management and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Spectrum of Psychodynamically Informed Treatments.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 49(2):296-321 , 2021. Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue: Recent Advances in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: Extending and Refining the Treatment Model.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 49(2):173-177 , 2021. Managing Countertransference in the Treatment of Personality Disorders.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 49(2):339-360 , 2021. Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Adolescents With Personality Disorders.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 49(2):215-243 , 2021. A Novel Approach to Supervision of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP): Examining the First Three Minutes of the TFP Session.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 49(1):110-130 , 2020. Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder: An Object Relations Approach.  J Pers Disord 34(Suppl):159-176 , 2020. Money Questions and the Structural Interview.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 48(4):407-421 , 2019. Augmenting Psychiatric Risk Management: Practical Applications of Transference- Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) Principles.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 47(4):441-468 , 2019. Changes in post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms during residential treatment for borderline personality disorder: a longitudinal cross-lagged study.  Borderline Personal Disord Emot Dysregul 6:15 , 2019. Conformity to prototypical therapeutic principles and its relation with change in reflective functioning in three treatments for borderline personality disorder.  J Consult Clin Psychol 87(11):975-988 , 2019. State of the Art Treatment Options for Actual and Potential Sexual Offenders and New Prevention Strategies.  J Psychiatr Pract 25(4):242-257 , 2019. Borderline Personality Disorder in Patients With Medical Illness: A Review of Assessment, Prevalence, and Treatment Options.  Psychosom Med 81(7):584-594 , 2019. Complex depression: The treatment of major depression and severe personality pathology.  J Clin Psychol 75(5):824-833 , 2018. Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.  Psychiatr Clin North Am 41(4):711-728 , 2018. Attachment and Borderline Personality Disorder.  Psychiatr Clin North Am 41(4):651-668 , 2018. Psychodynamic psychotherapies for borderline personality disorders. Current developments and challenges ahead.  BJPsych Int 15(1):12-14 , 2018. A Psychodynamic Approach for the General Psychiatrist: Using Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Principles in Acute Care Settings.  Psychiatr Clin North Am 41(2):225-235 , 2018. The Psychodynamic Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: An Introduction to Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.  Psychiatr Clin North Am 41(2):207-223 , 2018. Clinical severity as a moderator of outcome in psychodynamic and dialectical behavior therapies for borderline personality disorder.  Personal Disord 9(5):437-446 , 2018. Advances in transference-focused psychotherapy derived from the study of borderline personality disorder: clinical insights with a focus on mechanism.  Curr Opin Psychol 21:80-85 , 2017. Behavioral activation in TFP: The role of the treatment contract in transference-focused psychotherapy.  Psychotherapy (Chic) 54(3):260-266 , 2017. Change of Unresolved Attachment in Borderline Personality Disorder: RCT Study of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.  Psychother Psychosom 86(5):314-316 , 2017. [AIT (Adolescent Identity Treatment) - an Integrative Treatment Model for the Treatment of Personality Disorders].  Prax Kinderpsychol Kinderpsychiatr 66(6):392-403 , 2017. [Transference Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline-Adolescents in a Day Clinic Treatment Program].  Prax Kinderpsychol Kinderpsychiatr 66(6):445-463 , 2017. What Works in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.  Curr Behav Neurosci Rep 4(1):21-30 , 2017. Transference-Focused Psychotherapy in Australian psychiatric training and practice.  Australas Psychiatry 25(3):233-235 , 2016. Borderline Personality Disorder: Therapeutic Factors.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 44(4):505-539 , 2016. Evidence-Based Treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder: Implementation, Integration, and Stepped Care.  Harv Rev Psychiatry 24(5):342-56 , 2016. Impact of Interpersonal Problems in Borderline Personality Disorder Inpatients on Treatment Outcome and Psychopathology.  Psychopathology 49(3):172-80 , 2016. New developments in transference focused psychotherapy.  Int J Psychoanal 97(2):385-407 , 2016. Frontolimbic neural circuit changes in emotional processing and inhibitory control associated with clinical improvement following transference-focused psychotherapy in borderline personality disorder.  Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 70(1):51-61 , 2015. [Update on Current Care Guideline: Borderline personality disorder].  Duodecim 131(16):1484-5 , 2015. Prediction of treatment discontinuation and recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder: Results from an RCT comparing Schema Therapy and Transference Focused Psychotherapy.  Behav Res Ther 74:60-71 , 2015. NARCISSISTIC DEFENSES IN THE DISTORTION OF FREE ASSOCIATION AND THEIR UNDERLYING ANXIETIES.  Psychoanal Q 84(3):625-42 , 2015. Discussion of transference-focused psychotherapy training during residency: an aide to learning psychodynamic psychotherapy.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 43(2):223-8 , 2015. Transference-focused psychotherapy training during residency: an aide to learning psychodynamic psychotherapy.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 43(2):201-21 , 2015. Using transference-focused psychotherapy principles in the pharmacotherapy of patients with severe personality disorders.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 43(2):181-99 , 2015. Transference-focused psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: change in reflective function.  Br J Psychiatry 207(2):173-4 , 2015. Pharmacotherapy for borderline patients: business as usual or by default?  J Clin Psychiatry 76(4):e522-3 , 2015. The relation between prototypical processes and psychological distress in psychodynamic therapy of five inpatients with borderline personality disorder.  Clin Psychol Psychother 22(1):83-95 , 2015. Change in Identity Diffusion and Psychopathology in a Specialized Inpatient Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder.  Clin Psychol Psychother 22(6):559-69 , 2014. Approaches to psychotherapy for borderline personality: demonstrations by four master clinicians.  Personal Disord 5(1):108-16 , 2013. [Transference focused psychotherapy (TFP) and principles of mentalisation in inpatient psychotherapy; a matter of form and content].  Tijdschr Psychiatr 55(12):939-48 , 2013. Transference-focused psychotherapy.  Psychotherapy (Chic) 50(3):449-53 , 2013. Attachment and object relations in patients with narcissistic personality disorder: implications for therapeutic process and outcome.  J Clin Psychol 69(11):1148-59 , 2013. Psychometric properties of a culture-adapted Spanish version of AIDA (Assessment of Identity Development in Adolescence) in Mexico.  Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health 7:25 , 2013. Transference-focused psychotherapy in the general psychiatry residency: a useful and applicable model for residents in acute clinical settings.  Psychodyn Psychiatry 41(1):163-81 , 2013. Transference-focused psychotherapy with former child soldiers: meeting the murderous self.  J Trauma Dissociation 14(2):170-83 , 2012. Transference interpretation in the treatment of borderline personality disorder patients.  Bull Menninger Clin 76(3):195-210 , 2012. Integrating empirically supported therapies for treating personality disorders: a synthesis of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral group treatments.  Int J Group Psychother 62(4):500-29 , 2011. Is transference-focused psychotherapy really efficacious for borderline personality disorder?  Br J Psychiatry 198(2):156-7; author reply 157 , 2010. Relationships between techniques and outcomes for borderline personality disorder.  Am J Psychother 64(4):359-71 , 2010. [Psychotherapy of borderline personality disorder: similarities and differences in evidence-based disorder-specific treatment approaches].  Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr 78(12):698-708 , 2010. Transference-focused psychotherapy reduces treatment drop-out and suicide attempters compared with community psychotherapist treatment in borderline personality disorder.  Evid Based Ment Health 13(4):119 , 2010. [The differentiation between identity crisis and identity diffusion and its impact on treatment].  Prax Kinderpsychol Kinderpsychiatr 59(6):418-34 , 2010. Transference-focused psychotherapy v. treatment by community psychotherapists for borderline personality disorder: randomised controlled trial.  Br J Psychiatry 196(5):389-95 , 2009. Psychotherapy of borderline personality disorder.  Acta Psychiatr Scand 120(5):373-7 , 2009. How to deal with cost differences at baseline.  Pharmacoeconomics 27(6):519-28 , 2008. [Transference focused psychotherapy for adolescents: a preliminary communication].  Prax Kinderpsychol Kinderpsychiatr 57(8-9):662-92 , 2008. [Personality disorders in adolescence: conceptual issues and treatment approaches].  Prax Kinderpsychol Kinderpsychiatr 57(8-9):625-40 , 2008. [The patient therapist relationship: implications of attachment theory, reflective functioning and research].  Sante Ment Que 33(1):61-87 , 2008. [Treatment of adolescents with identity diffusion: a modification of transference focused psychotherapy].  Sante Ment Que 33(1):37-60 , 2008. [Some factors affecting treatment outcome in a randomized clinical trial of borderline patients].  Sante Ment Que 33(1):15-36 , 2008. Transference focused psychotherapy: overview and update.  Int J Psychoanal 89(3):601-20 , 2008. Out-patient psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: cost-effectiveness of schema-focused therapy v. transference-focused psychotherapy.  Br J Psychiatry 192(6):450-7 , 2008. Can assessors and therapists predict the outcome of long-term psychotherapy in borderline personality disorder?  J Clin Psychol 64(6):667-86 , 2008. Difficulties in calculating productivity costs: work disability associated with borderline personality disorder.  Value Health 11(4):637-44 , 2007. [Transference focused psychotherapy and reflective functioning].  Sante Ment Que 32(1):75-92 , 2007. [The countertransference rating system (CRS): a tool to analyse contertransference in the treatment of severe personality disorders].  Sante Ment Que 32(1):57-74 , 2007. [The empirical development of transference-focused psychotherapy].  Sante Ment Que 32(1):35-56 , 2007. [Transference focused psychotherapy].  Sante Ment Que 32(1):17-34 , 2007. Psychodynamic treatments of self-injury.  J Clin Psychol 63(11):1105-20 , 2007. Evaluating three treatments for borderline personality disorder: a multiwave study.  Am J Psychiatry 164(6):922-8 , 2007. Questions concerning the randomized trial of schema-focused therapy vs transference-focused psychotherapy.  Arch Gen Psychiatry 64(5):609-10; author reply 610-1 , 2007. The therapeutic alliance in schema-focused therapy and transference-focused psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder.  J Consult Clin Psychol 75(1):104-15 , 2007. Memory of childhood trauma before and after long-term psychological treatment of borderline personality disorder.  J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 38(1):1-10 , 2006. Change in attachment patterns and reflective function in a randomized control trial of transference-focused psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder.  J Consult Clin Psychol 74(6):1027-1040 , 2006. Supportive psychoanalytic psychotherapy for borderline patients: an empirical approach.  Am J Psychoanal 66(4):317-32 , 2006. Management of borderline personality disorder: a review of psychotherapeutic approaches.  World Psychiatry 5(1):15-20 , 2006. Outpatient psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: randomized trial of schema-focused therapy vs transference-focused psychotherapy.  Arch Gen Psychiatry 63(6):649-58 , 2006. The mechanisms of change in the treatment of borderline personality disorder with transference focused psychotherapy.  J Clin Psychol 62(4):481-501 , 2004. The Personality Disorders Institute/Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation randomized control trial for borderline personality disorder: rationale, methods, and patient characteristics.  J Pers Disord 18(1):52-72 , 2003. Patient-therapist attachment in the treatment of borderline personality disorder.  Bull Menninger Clin 67(3):227-59 , 2001. The development of a psychodynamic treatment for patients with borderline personality disorder: a preliminary study of behavioral change.  J Pers Disord 15(6):487-95 , 2001. The suicidal risk in severe personality disorders: differential diagnosis and treatment.  J Pers Disord 15(3):195-208; discussion 209-15 , 2000. Clinical guidelines for psychotherapy for patients with borderline personality disorder.  Psychiatr Clin North Am 23(1):193-210, ix Publication list retrieved from NCBI using ImpactPubs





