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Digital Seminar

Rethinking Borderline Personality Disorder

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Regardless of how it might seem, clients aren’t really at war with their therapists; they’re caught up in a trauma-related internal battle, asking themselves questions about whether to trust or not trust, live or die, and love or hate. A trauma perspective opens up new ways of working with clients with BPD, helping us understand their challenging behaviors as consequences of being traumatized and fragmented. It transforms the therapeutic relationship and the treatment. In this recording, you’ll explore the value of reinterpreting borderline personality as an attachment disorder and learn how to help clients with BPD focus on their internal battles, positioning yourself as an ally. You’ll explore how to:

  • To strengthen alliances with clients with BPD and navigate their fears of closeness and distance
  • Understand how fragmentation or “splitting” creates internal conflicts and fuels crisis
  • Help BPD clients resolve internal struggles with easily implemented body-centered and parts-centered interventions

Here's What You'll Learn

  • The effects of trauma on attachment formation in children
    • When parents are ‘frightened and frightening’
    • Trauma-related internal conflicts between closeness and distance
    • Disorganized attachment status in adulthood
       
  • Understanding BPD as a trauma-related disorder
    • Differentiating personality disorder symptoms from trauma responses
    • Using psychoeducation to make sense of the symptoms
       
  • Re-interpreting BPD as ‘Traumatic Attachment Disorder:  how does it change the treatment?
    • Transforming the focus from behavior change to trauma resolution
    • Understanding splitting as dissociative, not manipulative
    • Transference and countertransference implications
       
  • Stabilization of unsafe behavior
    • “Waking up” the prefrontal cortex
    • Increasing client ability to be mindful rather than reactive
    • Re-interpreting impulsive behavior as fight/flight responses
    • Helping clients dis-identify from suicidal beliefs and impulses
       
  • Addressing issues of clinging, separation anxiety and anger
    • Working from a trauma-based parts perspective
    • Facilitating internal attachment relationships
       
  • A “right brain to right brain” approach to healing attachment wounding
    • Facilitating internal compassion
    • Helping clients ‘repair’ the past rather than remember it
    • Creating internal secure attachment

Everything You're Getting

  • More than 2 hours of video content
  • Up to 2.5 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Janina Fisher, PhD

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Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, founder of Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), advisory board member of the Trauma Research Foundation, and coauthor with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation and Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is an international expert and consultant on Trauma and Dissociation. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
NOS096228
Duration:
2 hours, 43 minutes
Copyright:
Mar 13, 2022
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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