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Otto Kernberg, M.D.

Otto F. Kernberg, is Director of the Personality Disorders Institute at The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Payne Whitney Westchester, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Kernberg is a former President of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is also the Training and Supervising Analyst of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is the author of 9 books and co-author of 15 others: His most recent books are Aggressivity, Narcissism and Self-destructiveness in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship: New Developments in the Psychopathology and Psychotherapy of Severe Personality Disorders, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004; Contemporary Controversies in Psychoanalytic Theory, Techniques and their Applications. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004, Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality, co-authored with John Clarkin and Frank Yeomans. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing (2006), and Handbook of Dynamic Psychotherapy for Higher Level Personality Pathology, (with Eve Caligor and John F. Clarkin). American Psychiatric Publishing, Washington, D.C., 2007.

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