The inseparable nature of love and aggression : clinical and theoretical perspectives / by Otto F. Kernberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kernberg, Otto F., 1928-

Contributor:

Samuel Bellet Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality disorders--Treatment.

Personality disorders.

Psychotherapy.

Personality Disorders--therapy.

Aggression--psychology.

Love.

Psychoanalytic Theory.

Medical Subjects:

Personality Disorders--therapy.

Aggression--psychology.

Love.

Psychoanalytic Theory.

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

xx, 400 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Pub., [2012]

Summary:

Kernberg, a professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and Training and Supervising Analyst at Columbia University's Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, provides an over-view of new and old theoretical perspectives and clinical approaches to love and aggression in borderline personality disorder and more "normal" neurotic disorders. Freud's drive-theory of libido and death-drive. Of the five sections that divide his seventeen chapters, he spends the most time exploring severe personality disorder, the developmental origins of normal identity, transference-focused psychotherapy, mechanisms of change operating in psycho-dynamic approaches to therapy, and counter-transference in psychotherapy. Other sections and chapters reflect on psychoanalytic theory and its application, neurobiological considerations for affect theory, the psychology of sex & love, mourning, the contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis in the university and its "dissidents", and psychoanalytic perspectives on religious experience. Written clearly enough to be accessible to a general audience with an interest in psychoanalysis, but with enough details and carefully examined case studies to be relevant to clinicians as well. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Identity : recent findings and clinical implications

Psychoanalytic individual and group psychotherapy : the transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) model

Mentalization, mindfulness, insight, empathy, and interpretation

Countertransference : recent developments and technical implications for the treatment of patients with severe personality disorders

The almost untreatable narcissistic patient

The destruction of time in pathological narcissism

Supervision : the supervisor's tasks

Psychoanalytic affect theory in the light of contemporary neurobiological findings

The concept of the death drive : a clinical perspective

Some observations on the process of mourning

The sexual couple : a psychoanalytic exploration

Limitations to the capacity to love

Sexual pathology in borderline patients

Psychoanalysis and the university : a difficult relationship

Dissidence in psychoanalysis : a psychoanalytic reflection

Psychoanalytic perspectives on the religious experience

The emergence of a spiritual realm.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel Bellet Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781585624287

1585624284

OCLC:

728458287