Fitness Quote by Otto F. Kernberg

“The narcissistic gratifications involved in psychoanalytic training, such as professional advancement, the unconscious misuse of the therapeutic relationship as an expression of power, basking…

— 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

“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

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

— Otto F. Kernberg

“introspection and self-analysis, a creative capacity, an ability to think under adverse circumstances, ethical behavior that assures avoiding acting out in the counter transference,…

— 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

“psychoanalytic institute as a university college, as an institution for the transmission, exploration, and generation of knowledge, including”

— Otto F. Kernberg

Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out…

— Joseph Campbell

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

“second model, that of a technical or trade school, would conceive the primary task of psychoanalytic education to be the learning of a clearly…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“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

The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down…

— Sigmund Freud