Table of Contents

About the Author
Introduction
Acknowledgments
PART I: Severe Personality Disorders
Chapter 1. Identity RECENT FINDINGS AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 2. Psychoanalytic Individual and Group Psychotherapy THE TRANSFERENCE-FOCUSED PSYCHOTHERAPY (TFP) MODEL
Chapter 3. Mentalization, Mindfulness, Insight, Empathy, and Interpretation
Chapter 4. Countertransference RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND TECHNICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH SEVERE PERSONALITY DISORDERS
Chapter 5. The Almost Untreatable Narcissistic Patient
Chapter 6. The Destruction of Time in Pathological Narcissism
Chapter 7. Supervision THE SUPERVISOR'S TASKS
PART II: Reflections on Psychoanalytic Theory and Its Applications
Chapter 8. Psychoanalytic Affect Theory in the Light of Contemporary Neurobiological Findings
Chapter 9. The Concept of the Death Drive A CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 10. Some Observations on the Process of Mourning
PART III: The Psychology of Sexual Love
Chapter 11. The Sexual Couple A PSYCHOANALYTIC EXPLORATION
Chapter 12. Limitations to the Capacity to love
Chapter 13. Sexual Pathology in Borderline Patients
PART IV: Contemporary Challenges for Psychoanalysis
Chapter 14. Psychoanalysis and the University A DIFFICULT RELATIONSHIP
Chapter 15. "Dissidence" in Psychoanalysis: A PSYCHOANALYTIC REFLECTION
PART V: The Psychology of Religious Experience
Chapter 16. Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Religious Experience
Chapter 17. The Emergence of a Spiritual Realm
Index

About the Author

Otto Kernberg, M.D., is Director of the Personality Disorders Institute, Professor of Psychiatry, and DeWitt Wallace Senior Scholar at the Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, and Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Dr. Kernberg formerly served as Director of the C.F. Menninger Memorial Hospital, Supervising and Training Analyst of the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Director of the Psychotherapy Research Project of the Menninger Foundation. The recipient of many awards for excellence in psychiatry and author of numerous books in the field, he is also Past President of the International Psychoanalytical Association.

Reviews

This author's work is always fascinating and thought-provoking... This book is well worth the time to read, especially for those who treat patients with severe personality disorders. I particularly enjoyed his efforts at bringing together neurobiology, affect theory, and psychoanalytic thought... This is an excellent addition to Dr. Kernberg's lexicon and I strongly recommend it. Brett Plyler, M.D., Doody Enterprises, Inc. Kernberg's The Inseparable Nature of Love and Aggression: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives could more accurately be titled 'The Very Best of Otto F. Kernberg.' It will be thoroughly enjoyed and valued as an outstanding clinical and theoretical textbook by any experienced clinician and academician who recognizes the conceptual value of the unconscious and is already familiar with the basic tenets of psychodynamic and object relations theory. Gregory Mavrides, PsycCRITIQUES May 15, 2013