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Otto F. Kernberg is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on psychology, with a significant number of publications in clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and philosophy. Subfields of study also include experimental and cognitive psychology as well as cultural studies.

The main topics Kernberg's work addresses include:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Psychoanalysis and Social Critique
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Kernberg has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Neuropsychoanalysis
  • PTT - Persönlichkeitsstörungen Theorie und Therapie
  • Psychodynamic Psychiatry
  • SETTING
  • Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

The scientist's recent papers cover several subjects related to personality disorders and psychoanalysis. Selected recent publications are:

  • "Borderline Personality Disorder," 2023, JAMA
  • "Borderline personality disorder: a comprehensive review of diagnosis and clinical presentation, etiology, treatment, and current controversies," 2024, World Psychiatry
  • "Some implications of new developments in neurobiology for psychoanalytic object relations theory," 2021, Neuropsychoanalysis
  • "Malignant Narcissism and Large Group Regression," 2020, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
  • "Differential neural response to psychoanalytic intervention techniques during structural interviewing: A single-case analysis using EEG," 2023, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Kernberg has collaborated frequently with several co-authors. Notable collaborators include:

  • Peter Fonagy
  • Massimo Ammaniti
  • Falk Leichsenring
  • Nikolas Heim
  • Frank Leweke

They have contributed to book publications, including a title published by Hogrefe Verlag:

  • "Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung," 2022

Best Publications

  • Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism

    Otto F. Kernberg

  • Severe Personality Disorders: Psychotherapeutic Strategies

    Otto F. Kernberg

  • Object-relations theory and clinical psychoanalysis

    Otto F. Kernberg

  • Borderline Personality Organization

    Otto Kernberg

  • Evaluating three treatments for borderline personality disorder: a multiwave study.

    John F. Clarkin;Kenneth N. Levy;Mark F. Lenzenweger;Otto F. Kernberg

  • Internal World and External Reality: Object Relations Theory Applied

    Otto F. Kernberg

  • Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality

    John F. Clarkin;Frank E. Yeomans;Otto F. Kernberg

  • Change in attachment patterns and reflective function in a randomized control trial of transference-focused psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder.

    Kenneth N. Levy;Kevin B. Meehan;Kristen M. Kelly;Joseph S. Reynoso

  • Aggression in Personality Disorders and Perversions

    Otto F. Kernberg

  • Psychotherapy for borderline personality : focusing on object relations

    John F. Clarkin;Frank E. Yeomans;Otto F. Kernberg

  • A Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality Disorders.

    Otto F. Kernberg;Eve Caligor

  • Failure of frontolimbic inhibitory function in the context of negative emotion in borderline personality disorder.

    David Silbersweig;John F. Clarkin;Martin Goldstein;Otto F. Kernberg

  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Of Borderline Patients

    Otto F. Kernberg;Michael A. Selzer;Harold W. Koenigsberg;Arthur C. Carr

  • Factors in the psychoanalytic treatment of narcissistic personalities.

    Otto F. Kernberg

  • Structural derivatives of object relationships.

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  • Love Relations: Normality and Pathology

    Otto F. Kernberg

  • THE CONCEPT OF COUNTERTRANSFERENCE.

    Otto Kernberg

  • Notes on countertransferences.

    Otto Kernberg

  • The development of a psychodynamic treatment for patients with borderline personality disorder: a preliminary study of behavioral change.

    John F. Clarkin;Pamela A. Foelsch;Kenneth N. Levy;James W. Hull

  • Transference focused psychotherapy: Overview and update.

    Otto F. Kernberg;Frank E. Yeomans;John F. Clarkin;Kenneth N. Levy

Frequent Co-Authors

John F. Clarkin
John F. Clarkin Cornell University
Kenneth N. Levy
Kenneth N. Levy Pennsylvania State University
Mark F. Lenzenweger
Mark F. Lenzenweger Binghamton University
Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London
Anna Buchheim
Anna Buchheim University of Innsbruck
Michael I. Posner
Michael I. Posner University of Oregon
Manfred E. Beutel
Manfred E. Beutel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Carol George
Carol George Mills College
Aaron T. Beck
Aaron T. Beck University of Pennsylvania
Kathleen M. Thomas
Kathleen M. Thomas University of Minnesota

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