Books by Otto Kernberg

Explores the role of aggression in severe personality disorders and in normal and perverse sexuality, integrating new developments in psycholanalytic theory with findings from clinical work with severely regressed patients.

This text integrates current knowledge of the psychodynamics of individuals, groups and organizations into a theoretical framework. The author shows how the interplay of libidinal and aggressive impulses enacted within the unconsious of the individual also occurs at the level of groups.

Aims to provide the clinician with tools to diagnose and treat severe cases of personality disorder, including borderline and narcissistic structures. The book describes techniques used by the author in clinical practice and theories formulated in his previous work.