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8am-9am: Registration + coffee & pastries
- 9:00-9:10am: Introductions and Welcome with Helene Barab, PhD - Program Chair for Southwest Psychoanalytic Society and Jordan Karp, MD - Professor & Chair, Department of Psychiatry
- 9:10-9:40am: How does Transference Focused Psychotherapy Work? with Richard Hersh, MD - Columbia University, NYC
Principles of treatment, object relations theory.
9:40-9:50am: Q&A - 9:50-10:20am: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy and Treatment Selection in Borderline Personality Disorder with Benjamin McCommon, MD - Columbia University, NYC
Sequencing treatment for patients with BPD: selection of modality from General Psychiatric Management to Dialectical Behavior Therapy to Mentalization Based Therapy to TFP. How to use the different modalities.
10:20-10:30am: Q&A
10:30-10:45am: Break
- 10:45-11:15am: Research Methods in TFP with Stephan Doering, MD - Medical University of Vienna
How to measure personality organization; how to measure change; research evidence of TFP efficacy.
11:15-11:25am: Q&A - 11:25-11:55am: Comparison Between Mentalization Based Therapy and Transference Focused Psychotherapy: A Conversation with Karen Weihs, MD - University of Arizona - and commentary by Stephan Doering, MD
Comparing and contrasting TFP and mentalization-based treatment in the treatment of BPD and other personality disorders.
11:55-12:05pm: Q&A - 12:05-12:15pm: Morning sessions' panel discussion with the audience.
12:15 -1:30pm: Lunch
- 1:30–2:30pm: New York-based Case Presentation by Dr. Hersh and case discussion with Dr. Doering
2:30-3pm: Open discussion with the audience: Using TFP with other personality disorders
3pm: Adjourn