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Where Lies the Normal in Kernberg's Neurotic Personality Organization?

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Where Lies the Normal in Kernberg's Neurotic Personality Organization?

A Critical Analysis of the Three Personality Organizations (Vol. 1, Issue 47)

Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD
Dec 15, 2021
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Where Lies the Normal in Kernberg's Neurotic Personality Organization?

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In one of his most important contributions, Otto Kernberg (1984) lays out three foundational organizations of personality in his book titled, Severe Personality Disorders: Neurotic, Borderline, and Psychotic. The concept of these three problematic personality styles remains pertinent, but trouble lies in Kernberg’s stubborn insistence on labelling one n…

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