Otto Kernberg, M.D., is Director of the Personality Disorders Institute, Professor of Psychiatry, and DeWitt Wallace Senior Scholar at the Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, and Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. In this video Dr. Kernberg, talks about methods that he and his colleagues have developed over the years for treating patients with severe personality disorders: applying model of contemporary psychoanalytic object relations theory to study a number of issues that are important in the evaluation of personalities in areas of conflicts in sexuality and love relations, conflicts of couples dealing with tendencies toward aggressive behavior, particularly unconscious self-agression that goes very often hand in hand with the development of intimate relations. Issues such as spirituality and religion are also examined in this psychodynamic treatment of the patient. A synthesis of many of these problems can be found in Dr. Kernberg’s book, The Inseparable Nature of Love and Aggression
Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives.