Attachment theory, developed by Bowlby to explain human bonding, has profound implications
for conducting and adapting psychotherapy. We summarize the prevailing definitions and …

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a highly prevalent, chronic, and debilitating
psychiatric problem characterized by a pattern of chaotic and self-defeating interpersonal …

We address how Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) conceptualizes mechanisms
in the cause and maintenance of borderline personality disorder (BPD) as well as change …

The construct of narcissism is inconsistently defined across clinical theory, social-personality
psychology, and psychiatric diagnosis. Two problems were identified that impede …

… -focused psychotherapy is an effective treatment using patients as their own comparisons
(14) and has demonstrated superiority over treatment as usual (unpublished data by KN Levy …

… Levy, who had received training from the developers of the coding manual. Reliability was
obtained between the coders and one of the developers of the coding manual on practice sets…

Relationships between attachment styles and the content and structure of mental representations
of parents were investigated. Undergraduates completed 3-and 4-category measures …

Objective: The authors sought to test the hypothesis that in patients with borderline
personality disorder, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and associated regions would not be …

… Blatt SJ, & Levy KN A psychodynamic approach to the diagnosis of psychopathology. In
Barron JW, Making diagnosis meaningful Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. …

… Blatt and Levy place attachment theory and research in a … Thus Blatt and Levy construct
conceptual bridges between the two … Blatt and Levy identify a polarity that is central to attachment …