Otto F. Kernberg | |
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| Born | Otto Friedmann Kernberg 10 September 1928 Vienna, Austria |
| Known for | Psychoanalytic theories on borderline personality organization and narcissistic pathology |
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| Fields | Psychoanalysis |
| Institutions | Columbia University Weill Cornell Medical College NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital University of Chile |
Otto Friedmann Kernberg (born 10 September 1928) is an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is most widely known for his psychoanalytic theories on borderline personality organization and narcissistic pathology. In addition, his work has been central in integrating postwar ego psychology (which was primarily developed in the United States and the United Kingdom) with Kleinian and other object relations perspectives (which was developed primarily in the United Kingdom and South America). His integrative writings were central to the development of modern object relations, a school within modern psychoanalysis.