Hatred, Emptiness, and Hope: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy in Personality Disorders

In this important new volume, Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., of Weill Cornell Medical
College, offers an updated vision of psychoanalytic object relations theory,
revealing its application to transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), a
treatment approach derived from, and related to,
psychoanalysis.

Collecting previously published articles and new material
based on empirical studies carried out by the Personality Disorders Institute of
Weill Cornell, the book illustrates TFP's applicability in scenarios that
include:

Schizoid personality disorders Psychotic personality
organization Disturbances in sexuality and love relations in cases of
narcissistic personalities Inpatient hospital treatment Large group regression
in organizational and political settings as a consequence of malignant
narcissism

Hatred, Emptiness, and Hope also devotes a chapter to the
implications of new developments in neurobiology on psychoanalytic object
relations theory, examining the relationship between neurobiological
dispositions and their interaction with psychodynamic
developments.

Besides offering a detailed look at the application of TFP
to severe personality disorders, this book also examines the practice of TFP
itself, tackling controversial issues regarding the supervision of
psychoanalysis and its derived psychotherapies, the challenges for the future of
psychoanalysis, and innovations that may serve to strengthen its role as a
profession, a treatment approach and a social organization within mental health
sciences.