Psychology - Personality Disorders
By Otto Kernberg
Dr. Kernberg and his colleagues at the Personality Disorders Institute have done extensive research on diagnosing and treating patients with severe personality disorders for several decades, so he is definitely the expert to turn to when you need support with your most difficult cases. This is a great opportunity to be a "fly on the wall" as he consults with three different therapists who have three different theoretical orientations: clientcentered, psychoanalytic, and cognitivebehavioral. This video will be particularly useful for therapists who want to hone their consulting/supervising skills.
By watching this video, you will:
Gain an understanding of Kernberg's unique and effective approach to both case consultation and to working with challenging patients.
Learn what questions are essential to ask early on in treatment in order to make an accurate diagnosis and treatment plan.
Develop skills to more effectively apply an object relations approach to assess, diagnose, and treat people with personality disorders.
DVD (With Instructor's Manual, English subtitles) / 2011 / 146 minutes
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By Otto Kernberg
This interview offers much more than a discussion of the theoretical foundations of an object relations approach to therapy. By watching this video, you will have the experience of learning concrete tools and techniques from the leading expert on personality disorders that you can begin utilizing with your most difficult patients immediately. One thing that Kernberg conveys very effectively is the lack of a coherent identity that is at the core of a severe personality disorder. This is dramatically illustrated by his description of one such patient on the video. He reports asking the patient to describe herself and she responds:
"Well, that depends with whom I am. I'm different. And there's always something underneath," she said. She said, "Sometimes I feel like an onion, you know?" "What do you mean?" "You can peel it, and there's a deeper wave, the real onion comes out, and then you continue peeling and there's another onion, and at the end you have nothing." And the patient looked kind of slightly ironic and sad at the same time.
DVD (With Instructor's Manual, English subtitles) / 2011 / 96 minutes
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With Jeffrey J. Magnavita, PhD, ABPP, FAPA
In Personality-Guided Therapy Over Time, Dr. Jeffrey J. Magnavita demonstrates his unified model of conceptualizing personality dysfunction and focusing treatment using four well-established constructs as pattern recognition tools. His approach tailors psychotherapy to each client, systematically interweaving therapeutic modalities, strategies, and interventions using a biopsychosocial perspective.
A unified framework allows for the holistic blending of many therapeutic strategies by selecting from the array of evidence-based approaches. A systemic perspective is used to organize the many levels of analysis possible in therapy and to see which therapeutic technique or model works best for an individual client.
In this series of six sessions, Dr. Magnavita works with a woman in her 40s to uncover her feelings about her family distancing themselves from her after she came out as a lesbian. During the initial interview it also emerges that she uses alcohol in a destructive fashion to deal with her emotions.
Treatment centers on helping the client recognize her self-defeating patterns emanating from issues related to growing up in a dysfunctional family and resolving the emotional attachments that keep her stuck. Over the course of six sessions she becomes more aware of her feelings and discovers more adaptive ways to deal with them in order to extricate herself from these repetitive patterns.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2009 / 300 minutes
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With Robert F. Bornstein, PhD
In Dependent Personality Disorder, Robert F. Bornstein demonstrates his integrated treatment approach to working with clients who have a dependent coping style. This approach integrates techniques from the psychodynamic and cognitive traditions, along with experiential and behavioral elements. Treatment initially focuses on helping the client gain insight into the origin and dynamics of their problematic dependency.
In this session, Dr. Bornstein works with a recently married woman in her early 30s who is experiencing problems because her husband is critical and needy, and she is not assertive enough to deny his requests for help. Dr. Bornstein helps the client to see her part in creating this dependent dynamic, and together they look for ways to move toward a healthier relationship.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2007 / Approx. 100 minutes
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With Lorna Smith Benjamin, PhD
In Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy for Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder, Dr. Lorna Smith Benjamin shows her approach to working with clients who exhibit this disorder. Interpersonal reconstructive therapy assumes that maladaptive personality patterns such as passive-aggressive behavior are a repetition of behavior that was once appropriate to the client within the context of his or her childhood family experiences. Therapy involves recognizing these repeated patterns and understanding where they come from and why they continue.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2007 / Approx. 100 minutes
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With Jeffrey E. Young, PhD
In Schema Therapy, Dr. Jeffrey Young demonstrates his unique approach to working with clients with personality disorders or those who are resistant to treatment. Schema therapy is an innovative, integrated therapeutic approach, originally developed as an expansion of traditional cognitive-behavioral treatments. In comparison to cognitive-behavioral therapy, schema therapy emphasizes lifelong patterns, affective change techniques, and the therapeutic relationship, integrating all of these strategies as opposed to focusing on just one of them.
In this session, Dr. Young works with a woman who suffers from deeply negative self-talk stemming in part from abuse she suffered as a child. Dr. Young helps the client to start to challenge her feelings of guilt and selfblame.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2007 / Approx. 100 minutes
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With Mary Anne Layden, PhD
In Cognitive Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder, Dr. Mary Anne Layden demonstrates her approach to working with clients with this diagnosis. This therapy focuses on helping the client to substitute the unsuccessful compensatory strategies associated with this disorder with effective life skills. Therapy with clients with borderline personality disorder can be difficult, as the disorder generally involves deep mistrust of other people.
In this session, Dr. Layden works with a 40-year-old woman who reveals some potentially suicidal and homicidal thoughts. Through role-playing, Dr. Layden helps her client to learn skills for expressing her anger appropriately.
This program features a client portrayed by an actor on the basis of actual case material.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2006 / Approx. 100 minutes
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With Jeffrey J. Magnavita, PhD, ABPP, FAPA
In Personality Disorders, Dr. Jeffrey J. Magnavita demonstrates his approach to working with clients presenting with the spectrum of personality disorders and with clinical syndromes such as obsessive-compulsive or anxiety disorders. Dr. Magnavita uses personalityguided relational psychotherapy, a form of therapy that describes personality as encompassing four domains: biological, interpersonal, relational, and sociocultural.
In this session, Dr. Magnavita works with a recently married woman in her 20s who was neglected and abused as a child. The client is experiencing symptoms of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Dr. Magnavita assesses her defenses and personality structure and begins to help her to see how she has coped with her negative childhood experiences and how these coping strategies affect her present life.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2006 / Approx. 100 minutes
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By Marsha M. Linehan
An important component of DBT is the use of skills training to help manage the extreme beliefs, actions, and attitudes that form the criteria for borderline personality disorder. In actual therapy sessions, the video shows Dr. Linehan teaching patients the use of such skills as mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotional regulation. Vividly depicting the various stages of treatment, this program shows how DBT helps clients decrease negative behaviors and work toward personal goals. Designed for therapists, the video is also suitable for use in client and family education. In an especially compelling feature, the video includes live interview sessions between Dr. Linehan and Allen J. Frances, Chairman of the DSMIV Task Force. In these probing dialogues, Dr. Frances asks Dr. Linehan the nutsandbolts questions all clinicians want answered about how DBT works and what its advantages are over other therapies.
Reviews
"These two tapes and their accompanying manuals are highly recommended for their compelling learning value. All mental health professionals, in whatever professional milieu they work, will find them of personal and professional value."-Psychiatric Services
"Plainly, all therapists treating BPD should be knowledgeable about DBT. These videotapes are the most efficient way to get acquainted. They are accompanied by detailed program manuals that summarize key points and provide a guide to the literature. Given the deft interweaving of didactic and clinical material and the clarity of the presentation, these videotapes also could be used to educate patients and their family members." Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
DVD (With Manual) / 2006 / (All mental health professionals and students) / 43 minutes
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By Marsha M. Linehan
A straightforward introduction for therapists, this video addresses fundamental questions about the nature of borderline personality disorder (BPD), its causes, and how it can effectively be treated with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Dr. Linehan begins by presenting clinically relevant features of BPD and describing the underlying causes of the disorder, with an emphasis on biosocial factors. Segments of actual therapy sessions illustrate the emotional dysregulation that characterizes BPD and the intense distress that sufferers experience. Dr. Linehan discusses the development of DBT, which arose out of her realization that traditional treatments were not working with this client population, and clearly lays out its concepts and principles. In an especially compelling feature, this video includes live interview sessions between Dr. Linehan and Allen J. Frances, Chairman of the DSMIV Task Force. In these probing dialogues, Dr. Frances asks Dr. Linehan the nutsandbolts questions all clinicians want answered about how DBT works and what its advantages are over other therapies.
Reviews
"These two tapes and their accompanying manuals are highly recommended for their compelling learning value. All mental health professionals, in whatever professional milieu they work, will find them of personal and professional value."
Psychiatric Services
"Plainly, all therapists treating BPD should be knowledgeable about Dialectical Behavior Therapy. These videotapes are the most efficient way to get acquainted. They are accompanied by detailed program manuals that summarize key points and provide a guide to the literature. Given the deft interweaving of didactic and clinical material and the clarity of the presentation, these videotapes could also be used to educate patients and their family members." - Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
DVD (With Manual) / 2006 / (All mental health professionals and students.
) / 37 minutes
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The world of mental illness is one that is most often engulfed in shadows - shadows of the heart, shadows of the mind, and shadows of the soul. For many people, the onset of a psychological disorder goes undiagnosed and untreated, and, as a result, they face a constant, if not impossible, struggle to maintain good mental health. This can be especially true when individuals suffer from a personality disorder. Often referred to as quirks, eccentricities, or simply bad behavior, personality disorders can be mild enough to seem normal - and thus, go untreated - or severe enough to have a devastatingly negative impact upon a life. However, with identification and understanding, crippling personality disorders can be brought out of the shadows of ignorance and into the light of treatment.
Learning Objectives:
Students will learn what defines a personality disorder.
Students will learn about the category of personality disorder known as Odd and Eccentric, including symptoms and methods of treatment.
Students will explore the characteristics and treatment for the category of personality disorders labeled as Dramatic, Emotional, and Erratic.
Students will examine the symptoms and treatment for the category of personality disorders classified as Anxious, Apprehensive, and Fearful.
DVD / 2006 / 25 minutes
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By Juergen E. Korbanka, Ph.D.
The collection Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder and Addiction provides support for recovery from borderline personality disorder (BPD) and addiction, and explores ways to cope with common behaviors and thoughts associated with BPD.
DVD (Closed Captioned, With CD-ROM) / 2004 / 21 minutes
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This DVD examines antisocial behavior and borderline personality disorders: the first case presents a young man whose personality is fueled with the use of cocaine, the second case follows a woman, after leaving in-patient treatment whose use of alcohol pushes her toward self-mutilation.
DVD / 28 minutes
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Dr. Ross provides an in-depth training on his Trauma Model. Trauma Model Therapy provides a mix of cognitive-behavioral and expressive therapies. It is suitable for a wide range of Axis I and II disorders and addictions and for the extensive co-morbidity common in borderline personality disorder. Dr. Ross shows us the link between trauma, depression and borderline personality disorders. Dr. Ross gives his enlightening perspective and adds his humor regarding our diagnostic system known as the DSM, as it relates to his Trauma Model. The Trauma Model is meant to integrate the treatment process.
DVD / 167 minutes
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Dr. Ross provides an in-depth training on his Trauma Model. Trauma Model Therapy provides a mix of cognitive-behavioral and expressive therapies. It is suitable for a wide range of Axis I and II disorders and addictions and for the extensive co-morbidity common in borderline personality disorder. Dr. Ross shows us the link between trauma, depression and borderline personality disorders. Dr. Ross gives his enlightening perspective and adds his humor regarding our diagnostic system known as the DSM, as it relates to his Trauma Model. Melissa spends the second half of this two part advanced training discussing the many treatment strategies and techniques and will illustrate these through case examples and case consultations. The Trauma Model is meant to integrate the treatment process.
DVD / 144 minutes
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By Arthur Freeman
In this final installment of our comprehensive Three Approaches to Personality Disorders video series, watch renowned CBT expert Art Freeman assess cognitive schemas and set concrete therapeutic goals for Alfred, a challenging client who demonstrates significant Axis II issues and suicidal inclinations after being left by his girlfriend.
Expert CBT clinician Art Freeman brings a no-nonsense yet relational style to his work with 40-year-old Alfred (played by Dutch actor Hank Grashuis), whose pain over a recent breakup reveals troubling symptoms and an underlying personality disorder. Altering his initial assessment upon inquiring into the client's dominant schemas, Freeman attends empathically to Alfred's narcissistic need to "give 100% or nothing" in his relationships while simultaneously gaining buyin to explore ways of gaining more, not less, control over his anger, drinking, relationships, and emotions. Employing CBT interventions of supporting clients in linking thoughts, emotions, and behavior, Freeman nonetheless does so in an attuned way, even while addressing (to us in voiceover commentary) his own countertransference, and builds a trusting alliance with Alfred, who ultimately feels safe enough to commit to further therapy.
By watching this video, you will:
Understand how a CBT therapist assesses for personality disorders and obtains commitment to therapy.
Learn how CBT can be integrated with psychodynamic principles such as countertransference and the therapeutic alliance.
Identify elements of CBT style and strategy to use with your own clients.
DVD (With Instructor's Manual, English subtitles) / 166 minutes
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By Marsha Linehan
Watch Marsha Linehan, founder of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), in action in this session with a middle->aged man with a significant personality disorder struggling with suicidal depression and anger after being left by his girlfriend.
Perhaps no therapist of the last several decades has so influenced current practice as Marsha Linehan. Though she does a great deal of teaching and training, opportunities to see her practicing with a client in a fulllength session are few and far between. Therapists, DBT practitioners, and newcomers alike will relish this rare opportunity.
In this initial session, Linehan works with a fascinating and difficult client. He makes it clear that he is actively suicidal, has little faith in therapy, and is not necessarily committed to treatment. He bobs and weaves as Linehan works with him, concealing some of the most damaging aspects of his own past behaviors and painting himself as an angry and wounded victim. With her upfront 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. Throughout the session, Linehan gives voicedover explanations of why she made certain choices and what compelled her towards different interventions. Prepare to be fascinated, both by the client and by Linehan!
By watching this video, you will learn:
How to conduct an initial behavioral assessment using DBT
How to implement elements of DBT style and strategy with your own clients
How a DBT therapist assesses for suicidality and obtains commitment to therapy
DVD / 108 minutes
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By Otto Kernberg
Preeminent psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg doesn't back down in this series of three diagnostic Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) sessions with a paranoid client struggling with suicidal depression after being left by his girlfriend.
Alfred, a 40-year-old client seamlessly portrayed by Dutch actor Henk Grashuis, is an extremely challenging client who manifests significant Axis II issues. This solitary night receptionist struggles with suicidal ideation, anger, and a sense that he has been treated unfairly by his sister and exgirlfriend¡Xall of which is hidden behind a brittle defensiveness that could spark a strong countertransference reaction in many therapists. Kernberg patiently conducts an initial assessment interspersed with TransferenceFocused Psychotherapy techniques, including diagnostic "structural interviewing" regarding symptoms, personality, degree of identity diffusion or integration, and reality testing.
Relational, analytic, and attachment-oriented, Kernberg attends to Alfred in an engaged yet neutral way that gradually allows him to speak with less caution, reveal a desire for connection, and commit to further therapy. Relentless in his commitment to his client, Kernberg graciously offers us a substantial primer on TFP that's sure to leave you impressed and inspired.
By watching this video, you will:
Learn the four principles of TFP's "structural interview" model.
Understand how a TFP therapist assesses for personality disorders and obtains commitment to therapy.
Identify elements of TFP style and strategy to use with your own clients.
DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 254 minutes
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People suffering from this disorder are often referred to as psychopaths, and they can be found in all walks of life. This program illustrates the symptoms of this vicious disorder and details the difficulties of working with people suffering from it. It provides insight into the life of one man as he struggles with anti-social personality disorder.
DVD
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By Peter Fonagy
In this lively and engaging interview, Peter Fonagy, PhD, offers both a theoretical foundation for understanding violent behaviors as well as practical tools for clinicians working with violent offenders.
In this video, Peter Fonagy, PhD, eloquently articulates effective methods of intervening with violent behavior. He begins with child development, emphasizing that early attachment often inhibits violent tendencies. Providing viewers with a series of effective examples, Fonagy discusses the importance of mentalization or self-reflective functioning as a method for intervening with violence. He also addresses social factors affecting violence, risk factors and thoughts that drive violent behavior, and counseling violent offenders in a variety of settings, including in prisons, group therapy and individual therapy.
By watching this video you will:
Describe Fonagy's psychosocial approach to understanding and treating violent offenders
Understand the importance of facilitating mentalization with violent offenders and learn tools to utilize it with clients
Identify the specific skills necessary to work safely with violent individuals
DVD (With English Subtitles) / 65 minutes
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Introduction and role of the Non-Physician Mental Health Professional
Diagnostic Criteria of all Personality Disorders and DSM-IV<-TR Approach
Cluster A Disorders Odd-Eccentric
Cluster C Disorders Anxious, Fearful
Cluster B Disorders Erratic, Dramatic, Emotional
2 DVDs (With Study Guide) / 6 hours
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In Part One, Ten experts elucidate the root causes of violent behavior. They offer a probing look into the unsettling childhood experiences of violent offenders, examining the disturbed parent-child attachment styles, destructive thought processes, and distorted social perceptions that underlie violence. In addition to the expert commentary, riveting interviews with both incarcerated and rehabilitated offenders offer direct insight into the thinking that led to violent crimes.
From watching this program, you will be able to:
Describe the features of insecure attachment styles
Understand the link between insecure attachment and violent behavior
Explain the connection between violent and selfdestructive behavior
Conceptualize the social perspective of violent offenders
DVD (With English Subtitles, Instructor's Manual) / 58 minutes
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In Part Two, ten experts examine the critical components of effective treatment programs for violent individuals by focusing on prison programs in California and the U.K. Beyond the creation of an environment of safety and respect, these therapists confront the patriarchal beliefs, social misperceptions, and destructive thoughts that precipitate violent responses to real or perceived threats.
From watching this program, you will be able to:
Understand the common social misperceptions that lead offenders to violent behavior
Describe the key elements of effective treatment for violence
Identify the specific skills necessary to work safely with violent individuals
DVD (With English Subtitles, Instructor's Manual) / 60 minutes
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