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Revenge: Narcissistic Injury, Rage, and Retaliation addresses the
ubiquitous human wish to take revenge and settle scores. Featuring
the contributions of eleven distinguished mental health
professionals, it offers a panoramic and yet deep perspective on
the real or imagined narcissistic injury that often underlies
fantasies of revenge and the behavioral trait of vindictiveness. It
describes various types of revenge and introduces the concept of a
'good-enough revenge.' Deftly blending psychoanalysis, ethology,
religious studies, literary criticism, and clinical experience, the
book goes a long way to enhance empathy with patients struggling
with hurt, pain, and desires to get even with their tormentors.
This volume is of great clinical value indeed!
The problem of how to understand and to treat masochism has plagued
the vast majority of clinicians. The Clinical Problem of Masochism,
edited by Deanna Holtzman, PhD, and Nancy Kulish, PhD, focuses on
the common and difficult clinical problems posed by masochistic
patients who are spread throughout all diagnostic categories.
Foremost psychoanalytic clinicians in the field from various
theoretical backgrounds demonstrate their approaches to working
clinically with these problems. Each expert provides detailed
clinical examples, making their approaches and suggestions come
alive. This volume, unique in its varied clinical and practical
focus, offers therapists of all theoretical persuasions ideas on
how to think about and help individuals suffering from masochistic
difficulties.
Borderline conditions are a growing presence in the treatment room,
yet they are uncommonly resistant to treatment. Dr. Kernberg and
his colleagues have already articulated the modality they call
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. Now, in an unusually textured
elaboration, they confront the complications that limit
treatability--co-existing psychopathologies, early
trauma/dissociation, problems endemic to the therapeutic situation
(attachment disturbances, erotic transferences)--and bring new
rounds of clinical ammunition to meet those challenges.
Revenge: Narcissistic Injury, Rage, and Retaliation addresses the
ubiquitous human wish to take revenge and settle scores. Featuring
the contributions of eleven distinguished mental health
professionals, it offers a panoramic and yet deep perspective on
the real or imagined narcissistic injury that often underlies
fantasies of revenge and the behavioral trait of vindictiveness. It
describes various types of revenge and introduces the concept of a
'good-enough revenge.' Deftly blending psychoanalysis, ethology,
religious studies, literary criticism, and clinical experience, the
book goes a long way to enhance empathy with patients struggling
with hurt, pain, and desires to get even with their tormentors.
This volume is of great clinical value indeed!
The problem of how to understand and to treat masochism has plagued
the vast majority of clinicians. The Clinical Problem of Masochism,
edited by Deanna Holtzman, PhD, and Nancy Kulish, PhD, focuses on
the common and difficult clinical problems posed by masochistic
patients who are spread throughout all diagnostic categories.
Foremost psychoanalytic clinicians in the field from various
theoretical backgrounds demonstrate their approaches to working
clinically with these problems. Each expert provides detailed
clinical examples, making their approaches and suggestions come
alive. This volume, unique in its varied clinical and practical
focus, offers therapists of all theoretical persuasions ideas on
how to think about and help individuals suffering from masochistic
difficulties.
In this book a leading psychoanalytic clinician and theoretician
presents his thoughts on the latest psychodynamic developments and
insights related to treatment of severe personality disorders.
Dividing his discussions into two sections, one on psychopathology
and the other on psychotherapy, Dr. Otto F. Kernberg examines
borderline personality disorder, narcissism, sexual inhibition,
transference and countertransference, suicidal behavior, and eating
disorders. In each chapter he integrates the ideas of European and
Latin American psychoanalytic thinkers, bringing them to the
attention of English-speaking readers. This book includes a
selection of recently published journal articles. Their collection
into one volume makes readily available Dr. Kernberg’s present
thinking on an important subject.
In this important book, esteemed psychoanalyst Otto F. Kernberg
reviews some of the recent developments and controversies in
psychoanalytic theory and technique.
Gathering together both previously published articles and extensive
new material, Dr. Kernberg examines such issues as the new
psychoanalytic views of homosexuality, bisexuality, and the
influence of gender in the analytic relationship. He explores the
application of psychoanalysis to non-clinical fields, including the
problem of psychoanalytic research and its clinical implications,
the validation of psychoanalytic interventions in the clinical
process, and the challenges of psychoanalytic education. He shows
how psychoanalysis can be helpful in addressing such cultural
problems as socially sanctioned violence. And he asserts the
continued relevance of object relations theory and its
compatibility with Freud's dual drive theory.
In this book a psychoanalytic clinician and theoretician of world
renown integrates current knowledge of the psychodynamics of
individuals, groups, and organizations into a new theoretical
framework. Dr. Otto F. Kernberg shows how the interplay of
libidinal and aggressive impulses enacted within the dynamic
unconscious of the individual also occurs at the level of groups
and social organizations. He sheds new light on the turbulent
nature of human interactions in groups, suggests how this
understanding may help to resolve conflicts at the group and
institutional levels, and provides a model for achieving effective
institutional change. Dr. Kernberg applies his integrative frame to
the analysis of the regressive processes in groups, the nature of
institutional leadership, and the conditions of rational
functioning that may protect the organization from the most
dangerous consequences of regressive group processes. To illustrate
the therapeutic uses of the model, he considers its applications to
group therapy and the therapeutic community; to illustrate its
consultative potential, he includes a section on problems in
psychoanalytic organizations. In conclusion, the author extends his
theoretical framework to the social sciences, proposing
contributions to the psychology of ideology formation, bureaucracy,
conventionality, and the political process.
In this important new book, Dr. Otto F. Kernberg, one of the
world's foremost psychoanalysts, explores the role of aggression in
severe personality disorders and in normal and perverse sexuality,
integrating new developments in psychoanalytic theory with findings
from clinical work with severely regressed patients. The book also
integrates Dr. Kernberg's recent studies of the descriptive,
structural, and psychodynamic features of problems stemming from
pathological aggression with the vicissitudes of their
psychoanalytic treatment. Finally, Dr. Kernberg demonstrates the
importance of differential diagnosis for effective
psychoanalytically inspired treatment of these disorders, providing
a rich variety of clinical illustrations. The book begins by
relating the dual-drive theory of libido and aggression to
contemporary developments in affect theory. Dr. Kernberg then
applies this general theory of affects to aggression, which in its
pathological form centers on the affect of hatred. He analyzes
sado-masochistic, hysterical-hysteroid, and narcissistic-antisocial
spectrums of personality disorders, emphasizing how aggression is
structured in each group. Dr. Kernberg next describes and updates
the theoretical frame underlying his approach to the treatment of
these disorders, outlines their clinical manifestations, and
illustrates their diagnosis and treatment, ranging from standard
psychoanalysis with infantile personalities, to psychoanalytic
psychotherapy with borderline personalities, to the
psychotherapeutic approach to the treatment of psychosis and
hospital milieu treatment in the management of highly regressed
patients. In the final section, Dr. Kernberg links the findings
from psychoanalytic approaches to personality disorders with those
from the psychoanalytic study of sexual perversions.
In this important book, one of the world's foremost psychoanalysts
provides the clinician with tools to diagnose and treat severe
cases of personality disorder, including borderline and
narcissistic structures. Dr. Kernberg not only describes techniques
he has found useful in clinical practice but also further develops
theories formulated in his previous work and critically reviews
other recent contributions. "A splendid book . . . of great value
for anyone involved in psychotherapy with patients suffering from
one or another variety of personality disorder, as well as for
anyone who is teaching or doing research in this field. . . . An
outstandingly fine and valuable book.-Harold F. Searles, M.D.,
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease "Kernberg is a synthesizing,
creative eclectic on the contemporary psychoanalytic and
psychodynamic scene, broadly based in theory and in practice, a
powerful intelligence, a prolific writer, and a man of
ideas....This is a challenging and provocative book."-Alan A.
Stone, M.D., American Journal of Psychiatry "A major work that
brings together in one volume a host of clinical insights into
people with a variety of severe personality disorders.... Anyone
who has attempted to work with patients with severe personality
disorders will be rewarding by studying this book." -Robert D.
Gillman, Psychoanalytic Quarterly
Now facing its second century, the field of psychoanalysis is in a
period of rapid development. In this book some of the most
important figures in psychoanalysis today discuss how
changes-especially in such areas as infant research, ethology,
cognitive psychology, narrative studies, and neurobiology-have
affected or might affect the directions in which their discipline
will go in the next hundred years.
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