Clinical Pearls: Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy

What is it about?

Borderline Personality Disorder is common and difficult to treat, particularly the management of maladaptive angry reactions to interpersonal disappointments that are a common symptom of this condition. Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder (GPM) provides an understanding and approach that can be learned by treaters without specialized training in other evidence-based treatments for BPD, such as Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP). TFP influenced GPM's approach to anger in BPD. The TFP Elements that influenced GPM are elucidated and their reworking in GPM is described and illustrated in a case example followed by clinical recommendations for GPM informed by TFP.

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