Aggression in Personality Disorders and Perversions

The book by Otto Kernberg, one of the leading specialists in the field of severe neuroses and the author of modern psychoanalytic theory of personality, is dedicated to the study of issues of aggression in various mental disorders and at different levels of personality organization. The theoretical conclusions regarding aggression and hatred that the author makes are applied to create new technical approaches in working with severe personality disorders within the framework of psychoanalysis.

This deep and diverse clinical and theoretical study will undoubtedly interest professionals — psychologists, psychotherapists, doctors.

Contents

A.F. Uskov. Foreword to the Russian edition
Author's Foreword

Part I. The Role of Affects in Psychoanalytic Theory
1. New in Psychoanalytic Theory of Drives
2. Psychopathology of Hatred

Part II. Aspects of Development in a Broad Spectrum of Personality Disorders
3. Clinical Aspects of Masochism
4. Hysterical and Dramatic Personality Disorders
5. Antisocial and Narcissistic Personality Disorders

Part III. Clinical Applications of Object Relations Theory
6. Object Relations Theory in Clinical Practice
7. Approach to Transference from the Perspective of Ego Psychology — Object Relations Theory
8. Theory of Structural Changes in Ego Psychology — Object Relations Theory
9. Regression in Transference and Psychoanalytic Technique of Working with Infantile Personalities

Part IV. Technical Approaches to Severe Regression
10. Projection and Projective Identification: Development and Clinical Aspects
11. Projective Identification, Countertransference, and Inpatient Treatment
12. Identification and Its Manifestations in Psychoses
13. Pleasure in Hatred and Its Adventures
14. Psychopathic, Paranoid, and Depressive Transfers

Part V. Psychodynamics of Perversion
15. Relationship Between Borderline Personality Organization and Perversions
16. Theoretical Basis for the Study of Sexual Perversions
17. Conceptual Model of Male Perversion (with a separate examination of male homosexuality)
Literature