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Change in attachment patterns and reflective function in a randomized control trial of transference-focused psychotherapy for borderline personality disorderKenneth N Levy
Department of Psychology, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 74:1027-40. 2006..Future research should establish the relationship between these 2 constructs and relevant psychopathology, identify treatment components responsible for effecting these changes, and examine the long-term outcome of these changes...- Depressive experiences in inpatients with borderline personality disorderKenneth N Levy
Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, 521 Moore Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Psychiatr Q 78:129-43. 2007..Findings suggest the importance of considering phenomenological aspects of depression in borderline pathology... 
Sex differences in jealousy: a contribution from attachment theoryKenneth N Levy
Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16803, USA
Psychol Sci 21:168-73. 2010..03, p < .001. A series of sequential logistic regression analyses indicated significant moderation of the sex-jealousy relationship by attachment style. Implications of an attachment perspective are discussed...- Transference, transference interpretations, and transference-focused psychotherapiesKenneth N Levy
Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Psychotherapy (Chic) 49:391-403. 2012..Finally, we present the implications of this emerging evidence for clinical practice... - Subtypes, dimensions, levels, and mental states in narcissism and narcissistic personality disorderKenneth N Levy
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
J Clin Psychol 68:886-97. 2012..A case example and clinical implications are provided and discussed... - The implications of attachment theory and research for understanding borderline personality disorderKenneth N Levy
Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Dev Psychopathol 17:959-86. 2005..In conclusion, I address some of the salient issues that point to the direction for future research efforts... - The development of a measure to assess putative mechanisms of change in the treatment of borderline personality disorderKenneth N Levy
Department of Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, USA
J Am Psychoanal Assoc 54:1325-31. 2006 - Attachment and its vicissitudes in borderline personality disorderKenneth N Levy
Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 16802, USA
Curr Psychiatry Rep 13:50-9. 2011..These findings are discussed as they relate to existing theories and ongoing debates in the field, and the implications for future research and clinical practice are highlighted... - Psychodynamic treatments of self-injuryKenneth N Levy
Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
J Clin Psychol 63:1105-20. 2007..They then present a case illustration of a patient with borderline personality disorder who engages in non-suicidal self-injury to demonstrate how TFP can be applied to such cases... - Conflict begets conflict: executive control, mental state vacillations, and the therapeutic alliance in treatment of borderline personality disorderKenneth N Levy
Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
Psychother Res 20:413-22. 2010..Mental state vacillations as a mediator suggests a path in which poor executive attention leads to greater vacillations, which leads to poorer working alliance... - Attachment styleKenneth N Levy
Pennsylvania State University, USA
J Clin Psychol 67:193-203. 2011..We discuss the practice implications of these findings and related research on the link between attachment and the therapy relationship... - Attachment and borderline personality disorder: implications for psychotherapyKenneth N Levy
Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Psychopathology 38:64-74. 2005..In the present study, we will examine self-reported attachment in a study group of well-characterized patients reliably diagnosed with BPD... - The mechanisms of change in the treatment of borderline personality disorder with transference focused psychotherapyKenneth N Levy
Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
J Clin Psychol 62:481-501. 2006..In addition, we briefly review evidence from our group regarding the following hypothesized mechanisms of change: contract setting, integration of representations, and changes in reflective functioning (RF) and affect regulation... - Organization of co-occurring Axis II features in borderline personality disorderKenneth L Critchfield
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA
Br J Clin Psychol 47:185-200. 2008..The present study explored patterns of Axis II comorbidity in order to identify subtypes of BPD... - Predicting domains and rates of change in borderline personality disorderMark F Lenzenweger
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902 6000, USA
Personal Disord 3:185-95. 2012..These baseline predictors suggest potential research foci for understanding those aspects of BPD that change at comparable rates over time... 
Mental state decoding abilities in young adults with borderline personality disorder traitsLori N Scott
Department of Psychology, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Personal Disord 2:98-112. 2011..These findings suggest that BPD traits may be associated with enhanced ability to detect negative emotions and a bias for attributing negative emotions to nonnegative social stimuli...- The Personality Disorders Institute/Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation Randomized Control Trial for Borderline Personality Disorder: reliability of Axis I and II diagnosesKenneth L Critchfield
New York Presbyterian Hospital, Joan and Sanford I Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
Psychiatr Q 78:15-24. 2007..This data is important for comparing findings and sample composition across different studies using similar sampling strategies, especially as treatments are increasingly being developed and tested for BPD... - Adult attachment, personality traits, and borderline personality disorder features in young adultsLori N Scott
Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, 545 Moore Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
J Pers Disord 23:258-80. 2009..The results favored a model in which the relationship between adult attachment anxiety and BPD features is fully mediated by trait negative affect and impulsivity... - Initial construction and validation of the Pathological Narcissism InventoryAaron L Pincus
Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Psychol Assess 21:365-79. 2009..In a small clinical sample, PNI scales exhibited significant associations with parasuicidal behavior, suicide attempts, homicidal ideation, and several aspects of psychotherapy utilization... - Factor structure of the primary scales of the Inventory of Personality Organization in a nonclinical sample using exploratory structural equation modelingWilliam D Ellison
Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Psychol Assess 24:503-17. 2012..The results point to several areas in which the IPO might be refined to provide a more comprehensive and theoretically appropriate measure of the borderline personality organization construct... - The construct of effortful control: an approach to borderline personality disorder heterogeneitySimone Hoermann
Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychopathology 38:82-6. 2005..We hypothesized 3 subgroups of BPD patients based on effortful control, that would also differ in other areas of functioning, such as symptoms, interpersonal relations and personality organization... - Failure of frontolimbic inhibitory function in the context of negative emotion in borderline personality disorderDavid Silbersweig
Department of Psychiatry, Box 140, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:1832-41. 2007..Such a finding would provide a plausible neural basis for the difficulty borderline patients have in modulating their behavior during negative emotional states and a potential marker for treatment interventions... - Development and criterion validity of a computerized text analysis measure of reflective functioningEric A Fertuck
City College of New York of CUNY, Psychology, 160 Convent Ave, NAC Room 7 239, New York, NY 10031 9101, USA
Psychother Res 22:298-305. 2012..57, p=.002). These results suggest that a CRF rating scale is feasible, has preliminary criterion validity, and, therefore, has potential to facilitate the efficient assessment of RF... - I feel your pain: emotional closeness modulates neural responses to empathically experienced rejectionJoseph E Beeney
Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Soc Neurosci 6:369-76. 2011..Further, we found that the inferior frontal gyrus, critical for representing others' mental and emotional states, mediates the relationship between emotional closeness and neural responses to watching the rejection of a friend... - Reliability of a multidimensional measure for scoring reflective functionLindsay L Hill
Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16803, USA
J Am Psychoanal Assoc 55:309-13. 2007 - Generalizability theory in psychotherapy research: the impact of multiple sources of variance on the dependability of psychotherapy process ratingsRachel H Wasserman
Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
Psychother Res 19:397-408. 2009..Implications for measurement development and procedural modifications are discussed... - Personality and personality disorders in the DSM-5: introduction to the special issueJoshua D Miller
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 3103, USA
Personal Disord 2:1-3. 2011..It is the editors' goal to facilitate an open discussion of these issues in an effort to promote a scientifically based and clinically useful product... - Biobehavioral reactivity to social evaluative stress in women with borderline personality disorderLori N Scott
Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University
Personal Disord 4:91-100. 2013..PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)... - Attentional mechanisms of borderline personality disorderMichael I Posner
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:16366-70. 2002..The temperamentally matched group did not differ significantly from either group. A significant correlation was found between measures of the ability to control conflict in the reaction-time task and self-reported effortful control... - Patient-therapist attachment in the treatment of borderline personality disorderDiana Diamond
City University of New York and the New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Medical College of Cornell University, USA
Bull Menninger Clin 67:227-59. 2003..These findings suggest that optimally the therapist ought to be one step ahead of the patient in the capacity for mentalization... - The relationship between impulsivity, aggression, and impulsive-aggression in borderline personality disorder: an empirical analysis of self-report measuresKenneth L Critchfield
New York Presbyterian Hospital, Joan and Sanford I Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
J Pers Disord 18:555-70. 2004..Implications of the present results for future research and clinical work with BPD are discussed... - The Personality Disorders Institute/Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation randomized control trial for borderline personality disorder: rationale, methods, and patient characteristicsJohn F Clarkin
Personality Disorders Institute and Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Westchester Division, White Plains, NY 10605, USA
J Pers Disord 18:52-72. 2004..This article describes the significance and rationale of the study and the overall design, methods, plan of analysis, and demographic characteristics of the recruited sample of patients... - Transference focused psychotherapy: overview and updateOtto F Kernberg
New York Presbyterian Hospital, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, New York 10605, USA
Int J Psychoanal 89:601-20. 2008.... - Evaluating three treatments for borderline personality disorder: a multiwave studyJohn F Clarkin
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, 21 Bloomingdale Rd, White Plains, NY 10605, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:922-8. 2007..The authors examined three yearlong outpatient treatments for borderline personality disorder: dialectical behavior therapy, transference-focused psychotherapy, and a dynamic supportive treatment... - An object relations model of borderline pathologyJohn F Clarkin
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York Presbyterian Hospital, White Plains, NY 10605, USA
J Personal Disord 21:474-99. 2007 - Refining the borderline personality disorder phenotype through finite mixture modeling: implications for classificationMark F Lenzenweger
Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA
J Pers Disord 22:313-31. 2008..This proposed BPD taxonomy represents an approach to reducing heterogeneity observed among BPD patients and it may prove useful in studies seeking to understand etiologic and pathophysiologic factors as well as treatment response in BPD... - Introduction to the special section on attachment theory and psychotherapyJoanne Davila
Stony Brook UniversityState University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, US
J Consult Clin Psychol 74:989-93. 2006..c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)... - Psychotherapy for patients with borderline personality disorder: focusing on the mechanisms of changeJohn F Clarkin
Joan and Sanford I Weill Medical College of Cornell University, NY10605, USA
J Clin Psychol 62:405-10. 2006..This special issue is devoted to the articulation of putative mechanisms of change in the psychotherapy of patients with borderline personality disorder by leading researchers in this field... - The relational context of aggression in borderline personality disorder: using adult attachment style to predict forms of hostilityKenneth L Critchfield
IRT Clinic, University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
J Clin Psychol 64:67-82. 2008..Implications for understanding relational aspects of BPD aggression in research and clinical work are discussed... - An approach to the psychobiology of personality disordersMichael I Posner
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, USA
Dev Psychopathol 15:1093-106. 2003..We consider these implications in terms of a general approach to the study of personality development and its disorders... - Psychotherapies and lasting changeKenneth N Levy
Am J Psychiatry 165:556-9. 2008 - Supportive psychotherapy for borderline patients: a psychoanalytic research perspectiveAnn Halsell Appelbaum
Am J Psychoanal 62:201-2. 2002