The Denial of Reality
CHAPTER 14 The Denial of Reality What follows is the exploration of a frequent complication in the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of severe personality disorders, and one that we also…
Erotic Transference and Countertransference in Patients With Severe Personality Disorders
CHAPTER 13 Erotic Transference and Countertransference in Patients With Severe Personality Disorders Part II: Therapeutic Developments Transference and Countertransference Developments With Borderline Patients As mentioned in…
Erotic Transference and Countertransference in Patients With Severe Personality Disorders
CHAPTER 12 Erotic Transference and Countertransference in Patients With Severe Personality Disorders Part I: The Evaluation of Sexual Pathology What follows is an overview of our experiences in diagnosing and…
The Differential Diagnosis of Antisocial Behavior
CHAPTER 11 The Differential Diagnosis of Antisocial Behavior A Clinical Approach The Spectrum of Antisocial Behavior What follows is a clinical approach to the…
Narcissistic Defenses in the Distortion of Free Association and Their Underlying Anxieties
CHAPTER 10 Narcissistic Defenses in the Distortion of Free Association and Their Underlying Anxieties In this chapter, I examine distortions in the characteristics of free associations of patients…
An Overview of the Treatment of Severe Narcissistic Pathology
CHAPTER 9 An Overview of the Treatment of Severe Narcissistic Pathology This chapter is an overview of the pathology of severe narcissistic personality disorders, the common features of…
A New Formulation of Supportive Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
CHAPTER 8 A New Formulation of Supportive Psychodynamic Psychotherapy What follows is an effort to make use of the new knowledge and experiences that we have acquired at…
New Developments in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
CHAPTER 7 New Developments in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy What follows is a capsule description of the basic aspects of transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) and new developments of this therapeutic approach…
The Spectrum of Psychoanalytic Techniques
CHAPTER 6 The Spectrum of Psychoanalytic Techniques In Chapter 4 of this book, “The Basic Components of Psychoanalytic Technique and Derivative Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies,” I defined four basic aspects…
What Is Personality?
CHAPTER 1 What Is Personality? The concept of personality, in my view (Kernberg and Caligor 2005; Posner et al. 2003), refers to the dynamic integration of the totality…
