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TFP INTERVIEWS

Frank Yemans

Frank Yemans

In August 2016, on the occasion of the V International Course on Transference Focused Psychotherapy,TFP Uruguay traveled to Buenos Aires and interviewed Frank Yeomans. Here are some excerpts from that interview.

HER BEGINNINGS AS A THERAPIST

In this part of the interview, Frank Yeomans talks about his beginnings as a student of letters, his later interest in psychiatry and, more specifically, his astonishment at the ideas postulated by Otto Kernberg in his seminar “Internal world, external reality”.

DEFINITION AND INDICATIONS OF TFP

In this part of the interview, Frank Yeomans defines TFP as an extension of the field of psychoanalysis and describes what its specific indications are.

ORGANIZATION VS BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER

Frank Yeomans answers the question about the differences between Borderline Organization of Personality and Borderline Personality Disorder.

THEORETICAL TURNING POINTS OF TFP

In this part of the interview, Frank Yeomans talks about some key theoretical points for TFP, namely framing and technical neutrality.

DIFFICULTIES OF RESEARCH IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

In this excerpt from the interview, Frank Yeomans talks about the particularities that make TFP a special branch of psychoanalysis.

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