CC08 Keynote 03 - Love and Aggression in Couples Therapy - Otto Kernberg, MD
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Couples Therapy | Love | Sex and Sexuality
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Otto Kernberg, MD
- Duration:
- 56:57
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 26, 2008
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
Description:
This presentation will explore the expression of basic conflicts between love and aggression in a couple’s sexual life, their daily interactions, and their value systems. The analysis of chronic couples’ conflicts will be followed by the outline of an essentially psychoanalytic approach to their diagnostic assessment, and the characteristics of analytic and supportive strategies of treatment.
Educational Objectives:
- Given a couple, diagnose the dominant areas of conscious and unconscious conflicts.
- To describe the essential characteristics of an analytic technique in couples therapy.
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
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Faculty
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Otto Kernberg, MD, is a psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is most widely known for his psychoanalytic theories on borderline personality organization and narcissistic pathology. Director of the Personality Disorders Institute at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Kernberg is a Past-President of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is also Training and Supervising Analyst of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Dr. Kernberg is the author of twelve books and co-author of twelve others. His most recent books are Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality: Focusing on Object Relations and Handbook of Dynamic Psychotherapy for Higher Level Personality Pathology.