Otto Kernberg
Otto Kernberg · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychoanalyst known for theories of borderline personality and object relations
1928, Vienna, Austria
Austria · Chile · United States
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Kernberg is among the most influential and most-cited psychoanalysts alive, renowned for his theories of borderline personality organization and narcissism and for developing transference-focused psychotherapy. Born into a Viennese Jewish family, he fled with them to Chile in 1939 after the Nazi annexation of Austria, later moving to the United States. He has long been a professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine and directed its personality disorders institute.
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Psychoanalyst known for theories of borderline personality and object relations
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