The course provides an overview of the concepts of personality, personality disorders and psychoanalytic object relations theory, resulting in a discussion of the most common personality disorders. A focus on structural interviewing will be offered, then moving on to a discussion of transference-focused psychotherapy and corresponding transference management.
PROGRAM
Lesson 1
Personality and its Disorders
Lesson 2
Psychotherapy with severe personality disorders
Lesson 3
The narcissistic spectrum: normal narcissism and childhood narcissism; narcissistic personality disorder; the antisocial dimension
Lesson 4
The special narcissistic syndromes: vulnerable and grandiose patients; arrogance syndrome; dead mother syndrome; self-mutilation
Lesson 5
Malignant narcissism, group regression, and the political dimension
Lesson 6
Narcissistic love relationships, diagnosis and treatment.
Otto Kernberg was born in Vienna in 1928 and is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Kernberg is originally from Austria, but has US citizenship.
Otto Kernberg has defined his theoretical approach as Ego and Object Relations Psychology, in which the three leading psychoanalytic models converge. … continua