Otto F. Kernberg
Austrian psychoanalyst and psychologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Otto Friedmann Kernberg (born 10 September 1928) is an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is most widely known for his psychoanalytic theories on borderline personality organization and narcissistic pathology. In addition, his work has been central in integrating postwar ego psychology (which was primarily developed in the United States and the United Kingdom) with Kleinian and other object relations perspectives (which was developed primarily in the United Kingdom and South America). His integrative writings were central to the development of modern object relations, a school within modern psychoanalysis.
Otto F. Kernberg | |
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Born | Otto Friedmann Kernberg (1928-09-10) 10 September 1928 (age 95) Vienna, Austria |
Known for | Psychoanalytic theories on borderline personality organization and narcissistic pathology |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychoanalysis |
Institutions | Columbia University Weill Cornell Medical College NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital University of Chile |