Interview with Otto Kernberg at the 2022 ESSPD Congress

Interview with leading expert Prof. Otto Kernberg at the 6th International Congress on Borderline Personality Disorder and Allied Disorders 2022. "Change for a better future: Perspectives beyond symptoms"
Interviewed by: Stephan Doering

[@johnnycassell4338]

I've learned so much from you Otto. Please start your own TH-cam channel!

[@ThreetwoOne-wu7ye]

What I would like to see is NPDs who managed to grow up and make it. There is only 1 and he is the grandiose type.

[@Me_ThatsWho]

Dr. Kernberg is so candid, warm, and surprisingly humble. It's fascinating how such a person can have so much insight into aggression as well as an awareness of his own 'regressive tendencies' (as he put it). I would have given anything to be in a (training ) analysis with him. As the saying goes- "too soon old, too late wise"

[@thomastepfer9861]

One of thee very great ones

[@ladykws]

Otto, you are a legend! Blessings to you, always. You have taught me much!

[@Edward-zw9ld]

Great video and great books by Dr. KERNBERG
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[@franciscorettaroli6575]

Retired at the early age of 93...

[@petekdemircioglu]

Obviously there Were many people who needed him, the man couldnt retire. I would have committed Mass murder or suicide if I had to deal with antisocial personalities at a real early age. He must be a prophet!

[@kirstinstrand6292]

How do we know that these patients were anti social. There could be dozens of reasons for showing what the analyst interprets as anti-social. AS sounds like a catch-all label for those he himself did not understand, following bs theories! 🙄
My analyst had poor instincts and lacked compassion. Not empathic, either. This is not to say that he was not a good technician. 😕

[@Equilibriuuuum]

Well, I’m tired as well. Too much electricity in here.

[@Equilibriuuuum]

the love of the city hahahaha hahaha

[@ThreetwoOne-wu7ye]

Well I am the impossible patient, the one who destructed time, who attacked myself who did everything wrong from the start and for whom he has no solution.
So I am not too happy with him.
And yes, he probably has a lot of insight but we are not objects. And I am mad to see that the greatest expert of all time talks down on patients that are resistant and maybe untreatable.

[@kirstinstrand6292]

I
left my analysis in the late 1970s. Decades later, I reworked analytical theory. I experimented on myself and completely healed my neurosis. Freudians are inadequately trained, with lots of nonsense that has no value.
There must be 100s of analysands who never were able to finish their psychoanalysis. Now, psychoanalysis must be updated into the 21st century.
I understand your emotions. I could help people who are neurotic, only. 😞
Empathic types are usually workable.
I'm trying to find interested sources to explain my method, believing that I have much to offer. With no advanced degree, it's nearly impossible. 😮

[@Nico1952]

A (good) mother speaks to her crying child in a way that the child understands its feelings, and sees that words can be used to describe feelings and situtaties. In stead of acting out. So the child learns to live.
A therapeut does the same. The patient learns step by step to understand his feelings. But only if he trusts the therapist. So trust is a determining factor.
People who are too hurt, aren't able to trust reality nor another person. That is sad.
Perhaps you can trust a book, as a book cannot say anything to hurt you. You might read 'Gather, hunt, parent', written by Michaeleen Doucleff. She shows an ancient and loving way to raise children. So you can imaging you were raised the same way.
And you might read 'Radical Honesty' by Brad Blanton: he shows the way to see yourself as you are.