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Title: Love Relations: Normality and Pathology by Otto F. Kernberg ISBN: 0-300-07435-2 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Both useful and profound
Comment: In lively, vivid clinical examples, this book validates Freudian-derived object-relations concepts brilliantly. Erotic forces and the conflicts they engender powerfully shape personality, relationships, and experience of life.The serious student of humanity will find in these pages enlightenment and depth.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brave, Brilliant, Not Always Convincing
Comment: Kernberg goes where psychotherapy fears to tread. By continuing -- mostly convincingly -- to find Freudian thought useful, he eschews the naive humanism one might argue embodied by people like Erich Fromm and Karen Horney.
Whenever one wants to dismiss his insistence on, what at times seems like obsession with, theoretical constructs like castration anxiety and penis envy, when he gets to the meat and potatoes of his theory, he convinces. Anyone who has sensed a strange pattern or a strange logic in particularly exciting and frustrating sexual relationships will find a lot to comfort him here. I'd recommend this book to lay readers who have generally strong egos but find that, in sexual areas, their lives don't make sense, their relationships at a much lower level of functioning than the other parts of their lives.
If you have trouble integrating sexuality into your life and relationships, and have a general grasp, and affection for, psychoanalytic topics, you will find this book useful. Kernberg's naievete shows in the obstinacy of his writing, but while one might wish for a clearer explication, it's also clear he's not writing for a general audience. He leaves little room for disagreement, but it could also be argued that the strength of his convictions is what allows for such original and at times disturbing insight.
My gut tells me Kernberg's right more than he's wrong. The bleakness of his vision has integrity, and the hard lessons he seeks to teach are worth heeding.
Rating: 5
Summary: relationships on the couch
Comment: An excellent book on relationships from a Freudean perspective. People without any background in the jargon will find it slow reading, but it is a lean book. For the average person, they won't benefit from it until they have been burned in relationships with people that have emotional problems, but for folks that have been around the block once or twice, much of this book will be startlingly clear. Freud is like scotch - you appreciate more as you get older. Also, this book explains why a person may have a satisfactory sex life in college during a period of rebellion, but then "settle down" to a loveless marriage with someone who will take turns acting like the guilty, pouting destructive child and the punishing, negligent parent rather than an autonomous adult.
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Title: Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism (Master Work Series) by Otto F. Kernberg ISBN: 0876687621 Publisher: Jason Aronson Pub. Date: June, 1985 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Severe Personality Disorders: Psychotherapeutic Strategies by Otto F. Kernberg ISBN: 0300053495 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Aggression in Personality Disorders and Perversions by Otto F. Kernberg ISBN: 0300065086 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: A Primer of Transference Focused Psychotherapy for the Borderline Patient by Otto Kernberg, John F. Clarkin, Frank E. Yeomans ISBN: 0765703556 Publisher: Jason Aronson Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy of Borderline Patients by Otto F. Kernberg, Michael A. Selzer, Harold W. Koenigsberg, Athu Carr, Arthur C. Carr ISBN: 0465066437 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: June, 1989 List Price(USD): $48.00 |
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