Jump to ContentJump to Main Navigation
Aggressivity, Narcissism, and Self-Destructiveness in the Psychotherapeutic RelaNew Developments in the Psychopathology and Psychotherapy of Severe Personality Disorders$
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content.
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

Show Summary Details
Page of

PRINTED FROM YALE SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.yale.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Yale University Press, 2022. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in YSO for personal use.date: 21 May 2022

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Patients with Borderline Personality Organization: An Overview

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Patients with Borderline Personality Organization: An Overview

Chapter:
(p.120) Chapter 7 Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Patients with Borderline Personality Organization: An Overview
Source:
Aggressivity, Narcissism, and Self-Destructiveness in the Psychotherapeutic Rela
Author(s):

Otto F. Kernberg

Publisher:
Yale University Press
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300101805.003.0007

This chapter discusses psychodynamic psychotherapy—a psychoanalytic psychotherapy that explores the syndrome of identity diffusion and its expression in primitive tranferences as they reflect early internalized object relations of an idealized and persecutory kind. The goal of the treatment is to identify these paradigms and then to facilitate their gradual integration, so that splitting and other primitive defensive operations are replaced by more mature defensive operations and identity diffusion is eventually resolved.

Keywords:   personality disorders, psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, identity diffusion

Yale Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.

Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.

To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.