The Inseparable Nature of Love and Aggression: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives

by Otto F. Kernberg

The task Dr. Otto Kernberg takes up in The Inseparable Nature of Love and Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives is to first distinguish, then to interrelate psychoanalytic, clinical psychiatric, and neurobiological perspectives in a variety of areas, beginning with severe personality disorders and extending to love, destructiveness, mourning, spirituality, and the future of psychoanalytic inquiry. Dr. Kernberg is renowned for his work with borderline and narcissistic patients, and in this book, he offers new approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of the most severe personality disorders, particularly the spectrum of severe narcissistic psychopathology. His effort to relate psychoanalytic to neurobiological findings continues in two fascinating areas the study of sexual love and of religious experience and he examines object relations theory in relation to these two phenomena. Kernberg s analysis of love and aggression is both bold and nuanced and will captivate the professional psychotherapist as well as the psychologically astute general reader.

Genres: Psychology

420 pages, Paperback

First published August 9, 2011

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Chloe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr. Kernberg is an artist. His words are grappling and fun to read compared to other academic books. Usually, when describing a pathology of the mind, people have a difficult time adjusting their own egos, so that the descriptions come out as contemptuous, disgusted, revengeful, or pitiful. NOT OTTO! Dr. Kernberg describes these twisted minds in a way that utterly fascinates me - Analytical, level-headed, clean-cut, the best of the best psychoanalysis of narcissistic and borderline pathology and their love and aggression.

[Mohsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

کرنبرگ معمولا سخت نویس است. اما این کتاب ساده و روانی است. به مفاهیم زیادی می پردازد و مطالب قبلی خودش را به روز می کند. چه در مورد رانه ی مرگ و چه در مورد عشق و چه مبحث زیبای سوگ واری را به زیبایی به تصویر می کشد. به دوستانی که مطالعات روانکاوی داشته اند، با روابط ابژه آشنایی دارند و در مورد مفاهیمی که گفتم و مبحث مهم اروتیسیزم مطالب علمی و دقیق میخواهند، این کتاب را به شدت توصیه میکنم