Severe Personality Disorders: Psychotherepeutic Strategies

Within this book Dr. Otto Kernberg, one of the most influential contemporary psychoanalytic theorists, provides clinicians with tools to take notes and treat severe cases of personality disorder, including borderline and narcissistic structures. In this book, Dr. Kernberg not only describes techniques he has found useful in clinical practice but also further develops theories formulated in his previous work and critically reviews of their recent contributions to the areas with which he is concerned. Focusing on the management of unresponsive and or difficult patients, he discusses such questions like how to handle patients who persistently threatened suicide and how to differentiate treatable from un-treatable antisocial patients.