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Aggressivity, Narcissism, and Self-Destructiveness in the Psychotherapeutic RelaNew Developments in the Psychopathology and Psychotherapy of Severe Personality Disorders$
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Aggressivity, Narcissism, and Self-Destructiveness in the Psychotherapeutic Rela: New Developments in the Psychopathology and Psychotherapy of Severe Personality Disorders

Otto F. Kernberg

Print publication date: 2004

Print ISBN-13: 9780300101805

Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013

DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300101805.001.0001

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Omnipotence in the Transference and in the Countertransference

Omnipotence in the Transference and in the Countertransference

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(p.184) Chapter 11 Omnipotence in the Transference and in the Countertransference
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Aggressivity, Narcissism, and Self-Destructiveness in the Psychotherapeutic Rela
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Otto F. Kernberg

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Yale University Press
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300101805.003.0011

This chapter first discusses omnipotence and omnipotent control as essentially primitive defensive operations that are typically part of severe character pathology and psychosis. It then presents a clinical vignette that illustrates omnipotence and omnipotent control.

Keywords:   personality disorders, omnipotence, omnipotent control, transference

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