Treatment of Personality Disorders

Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medicine and Director of the Personality Disorders Institute at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division, White Plains, NY. He is also Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York, NY, and past President of the International Psychoanalytic Association.

• IntroductionAcknowledgementsPart I: Personality DisordersChapter 1. What is Personality?Chapter 2. Overview and Critique of the Classification of Personality Disorders proposed in DSM-VChapter 3. Neurobiological Correlates of Object Relations theoryPart II: Spectrum of Psychoanalytic PsychotherapiesChapter 4. The Basic Components of Psychoanalytic Technique and Derivative Psychoanalytic PsychotherapiesChapter 5. Interpretation in Borderline Pathology: a clinical illustrationChapter 6. The Spectrum of Psychoanalytic TechniquesChapter 7. New Developments in TFPChapter 8. A New Formulation of Supportive Psychodynamic PsychotherapyPart III: Narcissistic PathologyChapter 9. An Overview of the Treatment of Severe Narcissistic PathologyChapter 10. Narcissistic Defenses in the Distortion of Free Association and their Underlying AnxietiesChapter 11. The Differential Diagnosis of Antisocial Behavior: A clinical approachPart IV: Erotism in the TransferenceChapter 12. Erotic Transferences and Countertransferences in Patients with Severe Personality Disorders: Part IChapter 13. Erotic Transferences and Countertransferences in Patients with Severe Personality Disorders: Part IIPart V: Hope about Life, Mourning, and the Training of PsychotherapistsChapter 14. The Denial of RealityChapter 15. The Long - Term Effects of the Mourning ProcessChapter 16. A Proposal for Innovation in Psychoanalytic Education

“Otto Kernberg is one of the most illustrious and most frequently cited psychoanalysts alive. This, his most recent volume, discusses the topics that have been identified with him for the last several decades—serious personality disorders, their etiology, diagnosis and treatment, research on those treatments, the psychoanalytic theories that link what we know about these disorders with their treatment, and special problems that emerge with these patients in relation to eroticism, aggression, and reality. Kernberg’s thinking provides an essential context for any contemporary clinician working with these patients."- Robert Michels, M.D., Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, Cornell University, Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Former Joint Editor-in-Chief, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis;"More than anyone else, Otto F. Kernberg shaped our idea of borderline personality and narcissism as well as their psychoanalytical treatment. In his thrilling latest book, he deepens our insight into aggressive and sexual aspects of the relationships of patients with personality disorders. In his clarity and depth, he discloses new dimensions of the transference relationship and the treatment technique related to it."- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Doering, Leiter der Klinik fur Psychoanalyse, und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Universitat Wien;"A brilliant contribution by a psychoanalytic pioneer and pathfinder. An up to date review of eroticism and aggression in personality disorders. The discussion of transference is especially needed and useful. All psychotherapists must read and assimilate this book. It restores “the erotic” to the modern psychotherapeutic domain. Recommended without reservation."- Richard C. Friedman, M.D., Clinical Professor Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College