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Published on: March 8, 2018
Clinical Pearls: Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder and Transference-Focused
Teresa D Carreno1, Richard G Hersh1, Kenneth N Levy1
1Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami (Carreno); Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City (Hersh); Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and Department of Psychiatry, Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York City (Levy).
Abstract:
Good psychiatric management (GPM) for borderline personality disorder is a generalist strategic case management approach used by helping professionals of different training backgrounds to work with patients with borderline personality disorder. GPM includes a flexibly administered once-weekly psychotherapy for which a brief introductory course in GPM alone is considered sufficient preparation. GPM integrates concepts from specialized evidence-based treatments for borderline personality disorder, including transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP). This article describes the TFP elements that John Gunderson acknowledged as influential to his development of GPM. A basic introduction to TFP is provided, and elements in GPM that interweave with TFP's theoretical foundation are elucidated and then illustrated in a clinical vignette that captures the GPM clinician's interventions influenced by these ideas. The vignette is then used to illustrate clinical tools informed by TFP principles and common to both GPM and TFP.
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