Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., F.A.P.A., is associate chariman and medical director of The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, and professor of psychiatry at the Cornell University Medical College.
Kernberg is nonpareil in the methodical and systematic nature of
his approach. He is always clear and explicit, distinguishes data
from inference and speculation from observation, and addresses
himself to issues of agreement and validation. It is this
scrupulous lucidity of presentation that makes him as impossible to
ignore—even when one thinks him wrong—as he is pleasurable to read.
. . . Object-Relations Theory and Clinical Psychoanalysis is a must
for all psychoanalysts who are concerned with current issues of
psychoanalytic theory and technique.
*Arnold D. Richards M.D., editor, Journal of the American
Psychoanalytic Assocation*
Object Relations Theory and Clinical Psychoanalysis is a collection
of Kernberg's papers published or presented during the period from
1966 to 1975, with some new material included as well. While these
papers cover a diverse array of psychoanalytic topics, the book's
title aptly conveys their unifying theme. Kernberg's aim in this
group of papers is to elucidate his own version of psychoanalytic
object relations theory, and to demonstrate that this theory may be
employed to illuminate a wide range of clinical issues, such as the
treatment of borderline conditions, the classification of character
pathology, the analysis of love relations, and the study of group
processes. . . . There is little doubt that Kernberg's books are
destined to become modern psychoanalytic classics. They should be
required reading for all students and practitioners of
psychoanalytic psychotherapy, especially those who wish to treat
severely disturbed patients.
*Contemporary Psychology*
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