The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute is pleased to offer this program in collaboration with McLean Hospital.

THE INTERPRETIVE PROCESS IN THE PSYCHODYNAMIC TREATMENT
OF BODERLINE PERSONALITY PATHOLOGY

Presenter
EVE CALIGOR, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Director, Residency Training, New York University School of Medicine; Training and and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research

Discussant
DAN H. Buie, MD
Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Moderator
Elsa Ronningstam, PhD
Associate Clinical Professor Harvard Medical School
Psychologist, McLean Hospital

In the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of patients with severe personality pathology in general, and borderline personality disorder in particular, the interpretive process serves multiple functions. This process comprises a series of steps or phases that can be viewed as moving the patient further away from a single, poorly elaborated, and concrete experience in the transference, which dominates and floods subjectivity, and toward more fully elaborated, complex, stable and integrated representations of the therapist and what he or she evokes in the patient’s internal world.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
1. Understand and be able to identify the techniques employed in interpretive process in the treatment of patients with borderline personality pathology

2. Understand and be able to identify the functions served by the interpretive process in the treatment of patients with borderline personality pathology

3. Appreciate common elements shared by the techniques employed in Transference Focused Psychotherapy and those employed in Mentalization-Based Treatment

References:
1. Caligor, E, Diamond, D, Yeomans, FE, Kernberg, OF: The Interpretive Process in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Borderline Personality Pathology. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 57:271- 301, 2009.

2. Yeomans, F, Clarkin, JF, Diamond D, Levy, KN: An Object relations treatment of borderline patients with reflective functioning as the mechanism of change. In. Busch F (Ed) Mentalization: Theoretical Considerations, Research Findings, and Clinical Implications. New York and London: Analytic Press, Taylor and Francis Group.

3. Clarkin, JF, Levy, KN, Lenzenweger, MF, Kernberg, OF: Evaluating three treatments for borderline personality disorder: a multiwave study. American Journal of Psychiatry, 164, 922-928, 2007.

C Continuing Education
Physicians This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 hours in category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose. Psychologists The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This program fulfills the requirements for 1.5 hours of CE. Social Workers Please contact the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute’s Administrative Office at 617/266-0953 or office@bostonpsychoanalytic.org for more information.

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