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Tali Boritz is a psychologist and clinician scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD from York University in Toronto, Canada, and completed her postdoctoral training at CAMH. She joined the Borderline Personality Disorder Clinic at CAMH in 2012. Her research primarily focuses on psychotherapy process and outcome, with particular emphasis on the treatment of personality disorders. Her current research program aims to elucidate mechanisms of change in personality disorders, including the successful negotiation of the therapeutic alliance.
Rupture-Resolution Processes in Early Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder
The quality of the therapeutic alliance is a robust predictor of psychotherapy outcomes (Horvath, Del Re, Flückinger, & Symonds, 2011). Recent studies have shown that some therapists are consistently better at developing and maintaining alliances with their patients than others (Baldwin, Wampold, & Imel, 2007; Dinger, Strack, Leichsenring, Wilmers, & Schauenburg, 2008; Zuroff, Kelly, Leybman, […]
Tali Z. Boritz, Ph.D.
December 12, 2018
Working with Autobiographical Memory Narratives in Psychotherapy
Within psychotherapy, client storytelling is fundamental to the development of the therapeutic relationship and allows a shared context of meaning and understanding to emerge between client and psychotherapist, typically based on personal memories of past experiences (Angus, Lewin, Bouffard, & Rotondi-Trevisan, 2004). When clients provide narrative accounts of personal experiences in psychotherapy, they disclose information […]
Tali Z. Boritz, Ph.D. + 2 more
June 1, 2008