This interview offers much more than a discussion of the theoretical foundations of an object relations approach to therapy. By watching this video, you will have the experience of learning concrete tools and techniques from the leading expert on personality disorders that you can begin utilizing with your most difficult patients immediately. One thing that Kernberg conveys very effectively is the lack of a coherent identity that is at the core of a severe personality disorder. This is dramatically illustrated by his description of one such patient on the video. He reports asking the patient to describe herself and she responds:
"Well, that depends with whom I am. I'm different. And there's always something underneath," she said. She said, "Sometimes I feel like an onion, you know?” “What do you mean?” “You can peel it, and there's a deeper wave, the real onion comes out, and then you continue peeling and there's another onion, and at the end you have nothing." And the patient looked kind of slightly ironic and sad at the same time.
Length of video: 1:34:00
English subtitles available
Individual ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-237-9
Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-238-7
Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-238-9
Otto Kernberg, MD is the Director of the Personality Disorder Institute at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Joan and Sandford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University. He is also Training and Supervising Analyst of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and is the Past-President of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He has received numerous awards for his excellence in Psychiatry and has authored or coauthored over twenty books.
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