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Otto F. Kernberg

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Otto F. Kernberg


Born
in Vienna, Austria
September 10, 1928

Genre
Psychiatry


Otto Friedmann Kernberg (born 10 September 1928) is an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is most widely known for his psychoanalytic theories on borderline personality organization and narcissistic pathology.

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Borderline Conditions and P...
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Love Relations: Normality a...
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Severe Personality Disorder...
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Aggression in Personality D...
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Was hilft Psychotherapie, H...
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Aggressivity, Narcissism, a...
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The Inseparable Nature of L...
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Odio, rabbia, violenza e Na...
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Internal World & External R...
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“incapacity to commit oneself to any value system beyond one supplying self-serving needs usually indicates severe narcissistic pathology. The”
― Otto F. Kernberg, Psychoanalytic Education at the Crossroads: Reformation, change and the future of psychoanalytic training
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“Holding or containing has cognitive and affective components and includes a basic attitude of concern for oneself and the patient and a psychological openness to the unknown in others as well as in oneself.”
― Otto F. Kernberg, Psychoanalytic Education at the Crossroads: Reformation, change and the future of psychoanalytic training
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“psychoanalytic institutes as monasteries or religious retreats and psychoanalysis as a system of religious beliefs. Whereas”
― Otto F. Kernberg, Psychoanalytic Education at the Crossroads: Reformation, change and the future of psychoanalytic training
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