This book describes principles of intervention and contains a wealth of practical guidelines on how to apply TFP to individual patients on a session-by-session ... » 

This book describes principles of intervention and contains a wealth of practical guidelines on how to apply TFP to individual patients on a session-by-session basis.This groundbreaking treatment manual focuses on the analysis of the transference, showing how to help patients relax their defenses and become active participants in the therapeutic process.The authors describe techniques for seeing past the wall of behavioral and cognitive dissonance typically thrown up by the borderline patient, identifying a patient's conflicting self-conceptions and object representations, and immersing oneself in the turbulent currents of the borderline narrative stream while maintaining the clinical distance required to be a constructive force in patients' lives. «