Fitness Quote by Otto F. Kernberg

“training analysts that utilizes the exacerbation of idealization processes inherent in psychoanalytic training to consolidate its power and the related narcissistic gratification by exercising…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“major threat to the psychoanalyst’s creativity in working with his patient is the patient’s relentless, aggressive attack on the analyst’s work with him. Attacks…

— Otto F. Kernberg

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose…

— Thomas Szasz

“paranoid atmosphere that often pervades psychoanalytic institutes and its devastating effect on the “quality of life” in psychoanalytic education. Members”

— Otto F. Kernberg

“When we meet and fall into the gravitational pull of a narcissist, we are entering a significant life lesson that involves learning how to…

— Mateo Sol

Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant…

— Thomas Szasz

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction…

— Rollo May

“Freud believed that because the core of psychopathology was the repression of conflictual, infantile impulses, which sought disguised gratification from the analyst in many…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“Because psychoanalytic institutes have not attempted to develop such functional administrative structures, the prevalent defenses of idealization and feelings of persecution have contributed to…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“The narcissist cultivated your need for his or her validation and approval early on in the idealization phase. By making you dependent on his or…

— Shahida Arabi

“Narcissistic caregivers are along a continuum: On one end they can be abusive and punitive; they create restrictive environments and excessive expectations of accomplishing…

— Annie Tanasugarn, PhD

“The faculty to think objectively is reason ; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility . To be objective, to use one's…

— Erich Fromm