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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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A Technical Approach to Eating Disorders in Patients with Borderline Personality Organization

A Technical Approach to Eating Disorders in Patients with Borderline Personality Organization

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(p.205) Chapter 13 A Technical Approach to Eating Disorders in Patients with Borderline Personality Organization
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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/9780300101805.003.0013

This chapter discusses eating disorders in patients suffering from significant character pathology. It covers the diagnosis and treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa; and dominant dynamics in patients with severe eating disorders. It also describes the case of a woman with borderline personality organization, an infantile personality with hysterical features, characterological depression, bulimia, and moderate obesity.

Keywords:   personality disorders, eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa

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