Hatred, Emptiness, and Hope

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy in Personality Disorders

Otto Kernberg
American Psychiatric Association Publishing
260 pages
ISBN: 9781615374618
August 2022

This important new book 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, and much more.