The Polish TFP Society (2024) is another organisational structure, after the Polish Society for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (2007), established by the inspiration of the psychotherapists of the Krakow Psychodynamic Center (KCP).

The need to further develop psychodynamic thought and method, applied at KCP by Piotr Drozdowski, motivated us to establish a relationship with Dr Otto Kernberg, Dr John Clarkin and Dr Frank Yeomans from Cornell University in New York in 2012 and undertake training in psychodynamic psychotherapy for patients with personality disorders, developed by Dr Otto Kernberg, based on the ego theory of object relations – the Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. Thus, we have become part of the international community of psychodynamic psychotherapists affiliated with the ISTFP, and Poland has become the country with the most dynamic development of the TFP, defined by the number of certified ISTFP training supervisors, certified ISTFP therapists and participants in the postgraduate training for the ISTFP therapist certificate.

In the implementation of its statutory objectives, the Polish TFP Society wishes to be guided by values that have always been close to us, and which are particularly resonant in Otto Kernberg’s work, i.e. theoretical reliability, the integration of new ideas with traditional psychoanalytic theoretical approaches, confirmed by many years of clinical practice, and in the courage to present one’s own professional convictions.