Watch as three expert clinicians bring a unique approach and style to their work with Alfred, a 40-year-old man whose pain over a recent breakup reveals troubling symptoms and an underlying personality disorder. Kernberg patiently conducts an initial assessment interspersed with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy techniques, including diagnostic “structural interviewing” regarding symptoms, personality, degree of identity diffusion or integration, and reality testing. With her up-front and frank style, Linehan defines the client’s goals, makes clear to him which behaviors must change immediately, and gets him to agree to postpone suicidality in favor of further investigating her treatment. Freeman attends empathically and pragmatically to Alfred’s narcissistic need to “give 100% or nothing” in his relationships while simultaneously getting Alfred’s buy-in to explore ways of gaining more, not less, control over his anger, drinking, relationships, and emotions.
By watching this video, you will:
- Understand how three different therapists assess for personality disorders and obtain commitment to therapy.
- Learn how CBT, DBT, and psychoanalysis deal with clinical issues such as countertransference and the therapeutic alliance.
- Identify elements from three approaches to use with your own clients.
Length of Series: 8:49:14
English subtitles available
Arthur (Art) Freeman, EdD is Clinical Professor of Psychology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is a past president of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy and of the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy. He has published 63 professional books including
Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders,
Clinical Applications of Cognitive Therapy, and
The Comprehensive Casebook of Cognitive Therapy. He has also published two popular books, including
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda: Overcoming Mistakes and Missed Opportunities,
and The Ten Dumbest Mistakes Smart People Make, and How to Overcome Them.
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Otto Kernberg, MD is the Director of the Personality Disorder Institute at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Joan and Sandford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University. He is also Training and Supervising Analyst of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and is the Past-President of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He has received numerous awards for his excellence in Psychiatry and has authored or coauthored over twenty books.
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Marsha Linehan, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology and adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and is Director of the
Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics, a consortium of research projects developing new treatments and evaluating their efficacy for severely disordered and multi-diagnostic and suicidal populations. Her primary research is in the application of behavioral models to suicidal behaviors, drug abuse, and borderline personality disorder. She is also working to develop effective models for transferring science-based treatments to the clinical community.
She is the developer of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), a treatment originally developed for the treatment of suicidal behaviors and since expanded to treatment of borderline personality disorder and other severe and complex mental disorders, particularly those that involve serious emotion dysregulation.
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