Transference-Focused Psychotherapy in Australian psychiatric training and practice.
OBJECTIVE
This article discusses Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, a contemporary evidence-based and manualised form of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder. Transference focused psychotherapy has evolved from decades of research in the object-relations approach developed by Professor Otto Kernberg and his collaborators. It is being adopted increasingly throughout North and South America and Europe, and this article explores the role its adoption might play in psychiatric training as well as public and private service provision contexts in Australia.


CONCLUSIONS
Transference focused psychotherapy is readily applicable in a range of training, research and public and private service provision contexts in Australia. A numbers of aspects of current Australian psychiatric training and practice, such as the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists advanced training certificate, and the Australian medicare schedule, make it especially relevant for this purpose.
Senior Psychiatry Registrar, Advanced Trainee in Psychotherapies, Department of Psychiatry, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Louise
L
Martin
Senior Psychiatry Registrar, Advanced Trainee in Psychotherapies, Department of Psychiatry, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Bonita
B
Lloyd
Senior Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Paul
P
Cammell
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Training, Personality Disorders Institute, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA, and; Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia Center for Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, USA.
Frank
F
Yeomans
D001315:Australia; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D014167:Transference, Psychology
borderline personality disorder; psychiatric training; psychotherapy; public health