EP09 Dialogue 12 – Transference/Countertransference – Otto Kernberg, MD and Erving Polster, PhD
Educational Objective: Given a topic, to describe the differing approaches to psychotherapy, and to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.
Dr. Kernberg will present prognostically unfavorable indications for a psychodynamic psychotherapy of narcissistic patients, and the management of the corresponding difficulties. The description of general characteristics of narcissistic personality disorder, clinical syndromes including the diagnosis, and general principles of psychodynamic therapy for them will compliment this presentation.
Dr. Kernberg will describe strategies, techniques and tactics in TFP beginning with diagnostic assessment and contracting.He will continue with main developments in transference and countertransference assessment and management. The concepts of technical neutrality and priorities of intervention will be outlined. Clinical examples will illustrate all these procedures.
This workshop will focus on the complications in psychodynamic treatment with Transference Focused Psychotherapy. It will explore the management of suicidal and parasuicidal behavior, disruptive of the treatment, severe acting out in and outside the sessions, dishonesty, severe affect storms, and primitive forms of aggression. The treatment of trauma, paranoid regression, erotization, and secondary gain will complement this workshop.
Dr. Kernberg proposes that the DSM-V proposal is a helpful advance in the understanding of personality disorders, in spite of internal inconsistencies in its “hybrid model” basis. At the bottom, the psychiatric research community is struggling with a lack of an integrated conception of the development and structure of the personality.
EP13 Topical Panel 08 - History of Psychotherapy - Albert Bandura, PhD, Nicholas Cummings, PhD, Otto Kernberg, MD, and Irvin Yalom, MD
Moderator: Dan Short, PhD
Education Objectives:
Compare and contrast clinical and philosophical perspective of experts.
EP13 Topical Panel 10 - Transference/Countertransference - Otto Kernberg, MD, Peter Levine, PhD, and Erving Polster, PhD
Moderator: Michael Munion, MA
Education Objectives:
Compare and contrast clinical and philosophical perspective of experts.