Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., F.A.P.A.

Director of the Personality Disorders Institute at The New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division
Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Past-President of the International Psychoanalytic Association
Training and Supervising Analyst of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research

In the past, Dr. Kernberg served as Director of the C.F. Menninger Memorial Hospital, Supervising and Training Analyst of the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Director of the Psychotherapy Research Project of the Menninger Foundation. Later, he was Director of the General Clinical Service of the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. From 1976 to 1995 he was Associate Chairman and Medical Director of The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division. He was Book Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association from 1977-1993. He was awarded the l972 Heinz Hartmann Award of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, the l975 Edward A. Strecker Award from the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, the l98l George E. Daniels Merit Award of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, the l982 William F. Schonfeld Memorial Award of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry, the 1986 Van Gieson Award from the New York State Psychiatric Institute, the 1987 and 1996 Teacher of the Year Award from The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, and the 1990 Mary S. Sigourney Award for Psychoanalysis.

He is the author of 13 books and co-author of 12 others, including: Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism; Severe Personality Disorders: Psychotherapeutic Strategies; Contemporary Controversies in Psychoanalytic Theory, Techniques and their Applications; The Inseparable Nature of Love and Aggression; Psychoanalytic Education at the Crossroads; and, most recently, Resolution of Aggression and Recovery of Eroticism.

Curriculum Vitae

Highlighted Publications

Kernberg Otto F, “The Structural Interview” In: Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry.  Cláudio Eirizik & Giovanni Foresti (eds).  International Psychoanalytical Assoc., 163-174, 20, 2019.

Kernberg Otto F, “Reflections on Supervision”.  American Journal of Psychoanalysis.  Sep; 79(3):265-283, 2019

Kernberg Otto F, “Therapeutic Implications of Transference Structures in Various Personality Pathologies”.  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association”.  Vol. 67, issue 6, pg. 951-986, 2020.

Kernberg Otto F, “The Psychodynamics and Treatment of the Schizoid Personality Disorder”.   The Schizoid Personality Disorders, (Gerhard Damman and Otto Kernberg (eds). pp 187-201, 2019

Kernberg Otto F, “Malignant Narcissism and Large Group Regression”. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vol. LXXXIX, No. 1, pg. 1-24., 2020