Otto Kernberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4488012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Otto Kernberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Otto |
| FAMILY NAME | Kernberg |
| SIGNATURE | KERNBERG O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Personality Disorders Institute, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Conversation With Mark Solms
Occasioned by the publication of The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, the text represents exchanges held in the summer of 2024 at the invitation of The Psychoanalytic Review. It addresses the genesis and the history of the project, and its impact on psychoanalytic rethinking, formation, and practice. While exploring the potential and the limits of revisioning, it also raises questions about the nature…
Aging, Dying, and the Analytic Process
The panel discussion presented at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute's 1066th Scientific Meeting held on June 8, 2023, takes up aging and dying of an analyst and their impact on patients and on the nature of analytic process. Participants reflect on conflicts and challenges arising with more analysts and patients living to an advanced age, on the unregulated nature of analysts’ retirement, and on multilayered meanings of analysts’ …
Psychoanalytic Education at the Crossroads: Reformation, Change and the Future of Psychoanalytic Training
Wilfred Bion: Los Angeles seminars and supervision
Some observations on the process of mourning
The main proposal of this paper is that normal mourning is not completed after six months to a year or two as suggested in earlier literature, but may bring about a permanent alteration of psychological structures that affect various aspects of the mourning persons' lives. These structural consequences of mourning consist in the setting up of a persistent internalized object relationship with the lost object that affects ego and superego function…
The concept of the death drive: A clinical perspective
This paper discusses Freud 's theory of the death drive in the light of clinical experience with severely self-destructive personality disorders, and contemporary object relations theory. Repetition compulsion, sadism and masochism, negative therapeutic reaction, suicide in depressed and in non-depressed patients, and destructive group processes are explored from this perspective. The paper concludes that the concept of the death drive is clinica…
Bears: A Brief History
Aggression in Personality Disorders and Perversions
In this important new book, Dr. Otto F. Kernberg, one of the world's foremost psychoanalysts, explores the role of aggression in severe personality disorders and in normal and perverse sexuality, integrating new developments in psychoanalytic theory with findings from clinical work with severely regressed patients. The book also integrates Dr. Kernberg's recent studies of the descriptive, structural, and psychodynamic features of problems stemmin…
Borderline Personality Organization
Notes on Countertransference
wo CONTRASTING approaches in regard to the concept of counter-transference could be described. Let us call the first approach T the “classical ” one, and define its concept of countertransfer-ence as the unconscious reaction of the psychoanalyst to the pa-tient’s transference. This approach stays close to the use of the term as first proposed by Freud (8) and to his recommendation that the analyst overcome his countertransference (9). This ap-pro…
Borderline Personality Organization
Notes on Countertransference
wo CONTRASTING approaches in regard to the concept of counter-transference could be described. Let us call the first approach T the “classical ” one, and define its concept of countertransfer-ence as the unconscious reaction of the psychoanalyst to the pa-tient’s transference. This approach stays close to the use of the term as first proposed by Freud (8) and to his recommendation that the analyst overcome his countertransference (9). This ap-pro…
Some observations on the process of mourning
The main proposal of this paper is that normal mourning is not completed after six months to a year or two as suggested in earlier literature, but may bring about a permanent alteration of psychological structures that affect various aspects of the mourning persons' lives. These structural consequences of mourning consist in the setting up of a persistent internalized object relationship with the lost object that affects ego and superego function…
The concept of the death drive: A clinical perspective
This paper discusses Freud 's theory of the death drive in the light of clinical experience with severely self-destructive personality disorders, and contemporary object relations theory. Repetition compulsion, sadism and masochism, negative therapeutic reaction, suicide in depressed and in non-depressed patients, and destructive group processes are explored from this perspective. The paper concludes that the concept of the death drive is clinica…
Notes on Countertransference
wo CONTRASTING approaches in regard to the concept of counter-transference could be described. Let us call the first approach T the “classical ” one, and define its concept of countertransfer-ence as the unconscious reaction of the psychoanalyst to the pa-tient’s transference. This approach stays close to the use of the term as first proposed by Freud (8) and to his recommendation that the analyst overcome his countertransference (9). This ap-pro…
Borderline Personality Organization
Aggression in Personality Disorders and Perversions
In this important new book, Dr. Otto F. Kernberg, one of the world's foremost psychoanalysts, explores the role of aggression in severe personality disorders and in normal and perverse sexuality, integrating new developments in psychoanalytic theory with findings from clinical work with severely regressed patients. The book also integrates Dr. Kernberg's recent studies of the descriptive, structural, and psychodynamic features of problems stemmin…
Bears: A Brief History
The concept of the death drive: A clinical perspective
This paper discusses Freud 's theory of the death drive in the light of clinical experience with severely self-destructive personality disorders, and contemporary object relations theory. Repetition compulsion, sadism and masochism, negative therapeutic reaction, suicide in depressed and in non-depressed patients, and destructive group processes are explored from this perspective. The paper concludes that the concept of the death drive is clinica…
Some observations on the process of mourning
The main proposal of this paper is that normal mourning is not completed after six months to a year or two as suggested in earlier literature, but may bring about a permanent alteration of psychological structures that affect various aspects of the mourning persons' lives. These structural consequences of mourning consist in the setting up of a persistent internalized object relationship with the lost object that affects ego and superego function…
Wilfred Bion: Los Angeles seminars and supervision
Psychoanalytic Education at the Crossroads: Reformation, Change and the Future of Psychoanalytic Training
Conversation With Mark Solms
Occasioned by the publication of The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, the text represents exchanges held in the summer of 2024 at the invitation of The Psychoanalytic Review. It addresses the genesis and the history of the project, and its impact on psychoanalytic rethinking, formation, and practice. While exploring the potential and the limits of revisioning, it also raises questions about the nature…
Aging, Dying, and the Analytic Process
The panel discussion presented at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute's 1066th Scientific Meeting held on June 8, 2023, takes up aging and dying of an analyst and their impact on patients and on the nature of analytic process. Participants reflect on conflicts and challenges arising with more analysts and patients living to an advanced age, on the unregulated nature of analysts’ retirement, and on multilayered meanings of analysts’ …
Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (5 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Personality (3 works) · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)