Chapter 4 – Rare and Unusual Dementias
Abstract Over 95% of cases of dementia are attributable to Alzheimer’s disease (AD), vascular dementia (VaD), dementia Lewy body (DLB), and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), as well as mixed Alzheimer’s and…
PSYCHIATRY
Chapter 1 – Epidemiology and Mental Health in Old Age
Abstract Epidemiology is the study of disease and its determinants in populations. Epidemiological studies investigate what the patterns of diseases are and why they develop in particular populations. Epidemiology is…
Chapter 2 – Vascular Dementia
Abstract Over the course of the last hundred years our understanding of dementia has undergone considerable change. For much of that time ‘senility’ was seen as an almost inevitable concomitant…
A Proposal for Innovation in Psychoanalytic Education
CHAPTER 16 A Proposal for Innovation in Psychoanalytic Education In this chapter, I propose that psychoanalytic education needs to advance into two apparently contradictory but essentially linked and…
The Long-Term Effects of the Mourning Process
CHAPTER 15 The Long-Term Effects of the Mourning Process In an earlier paper (Kernberg 2010), I pointed to some aspects of the mourning process that in my view…
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…
