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Otto F. Kernberg

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in Vienna, Austria

September 10, 1928

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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 Pathological Narcissism 4.20 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 1975 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Relations: Normality and Pathology 4.02 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 1995 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Severe Personality Disorders: Psychotherapeutic Strategies 4.05 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1984	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Of Borderline Patients by Otto F. Kernberg, Michael A. Selzer, Harold W. Koenigsberg 4.16 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aggression in Personality Disorders and Perversions 4.28 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Was hilft Psychotherapie, Herr Kernberg?: Erfahrungen eines berühmten Psychotherapeuten 3.16 avg rating — 62 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aggressivity, Narcissism, and Self-Destructiveness in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship: New Developments in the Psychopathology and Psychotherapy of Severe Personality Disorders 4.36 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Inseparable Nature of Love and Aggression: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Odio, rabbia, violenza e Narcisisismo 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Internal World & External Reality: Object Relations Theory Applied 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1977 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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“Subtle but significant superego pathology may easily go undetected throughout psychoanalytic training and only emerge later in trivialization, cynical relativism, messianic deterioration, and rigidly dogmatic and paranoid stances regarding psychoanalysis.”
― 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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