Tratat de referinţă pentru psihiatria şi psihanaliza internaţională, prezenta carte descrie o serie de instrumente de diagnostic şi de tratament a tulburărilor grave de personalitate, în special a structurilor borderline şi narcisică. Pe lângă faptul că prezintă tehnicile terapeutice specifice patologiei severe într-un mod nuanţat şi cu multipe ilustrări clinice, Kernberg propune noi sinteze teoretice şi noi organizări nosologice ale tulburărilor mentale aflate la graniţa dintre nevroză şi psihoză. Scris dintr-o perspectivă psihodinamică (cu un accent pe teoria relaţiilor de obiect), volumul este un ghid util atât pentru cercetare, cât şi pentru psihiatrii, psihoterapeuţii şi psihologii clinicieni care se confruntă cu pacienţi dificili din spectrul tulburărilor de personalitate.
*** „O carte splendidă, extrem de importantă pentru orice terapeut care se confruntă cu pacienţi afectaţi de tulburări de personalitate, dar şi pentru oricine predă sau cercetează în acest domeniu." (Harold S. Searles)
Otto F. Kernberg (n. 1928) este profesor de psihiatrie la Cornell University Medical College şi autor a numeroase cărţi dedicate tulburărilor severe de personalitate, dar şi psihologiei organizaţiilor. De acelaşi autor, la Editura Trei a apărut volumul Relaţii de iubire. Normalitate şi patologie.
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.
really, really great book. I finally have the closure I needed to move forward. To leave the memories of the people that were eviscerated that day behind. Every moment of every day is a new beginning. All praise to Lucifer, Bringer of Light.
Это первая прочитанная мною книга Кернберга, поэтому первую половину книги я привыкала к стилю автора и тому, какое количество длинных слов он использует на одну синтаксическую единицу. Но потом я привыкла и с удовольствием внимала мудрости и клиническому опыту автора. Книга хороша тем, что в ней подробно и с примерами рассматривается широкий спектр личностных расстройств, в основном пограничных и нарциссических, и даются конкретные внятные рекомендации по технике лечения. Несмотря на явные проблемы с переводом (такое ощущение, что переводил непрофессионал, иначе откуда всякие «эмоциональная выжженность» и «отыгрывание вовне»), я очень рекомендую эту книгу всем, кто хочет повысить свою квалификацию в сфере психодинамической терапии. Квадратиш, практиш, гут.
DNF, I'll admit. I got about as far as when he seemed to be arguing BPD and narcissism were essentially the same if you dug deep enough before deciding this probably wasn't the philosophy I wanted to go with for understanding the nuances of Cluster B personality disorders. That's what I get for picking up a 35 year old reference manual and hoping to pull something meaningful from it, I guess.
This was recommended to me because it has a very different view of psychopathy from Hare's. I'll say. As the title would suggest, this book is about personality disorders in general, with an emphasis on narcissism (not psychopathy). It's written for psychiatrists, not laymen, so what he discusses is problems of classification, differential diagnosis and treatment - not how to spot these people and cope with them in normal life.
I really didn't like it. He's so wedded to his theories that I don't think he even realises that facts can be separated from them. He has that really annoying lofty Freudian jargon, e.g. infantile personality demonstrates clinginess, you get it. In between all the theories, there are self-indulgent-sounding anecdotes, and a very intrusive "I" going all the way through.
This book is as close to unreadable as I have ever seen.