Otto F. Kernberg in Zurich: A significant meeting

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE
Author/s Emilio Modena
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/4
Language Italian Pages 4 P. 477-480 File size 54 KB
DOI 10.3280/PU2011-004004
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Beginning with Otto F. Kernberg’s visit to the "Zurich Psychoanalytic Seminar" (http://www.psychoanalysezuerich. Ch) in 1975, some theoretical and institutional vicissitudes of the Zurich Psychoanalytic Seminar are reviewed. In particular, the discussions that occurred in those years in Zurich around Heinz Kohut’s (1913-1981) Self Psychology and his new ideas on narcissism are briefly described, and confronted with Otto F. Kernberg’s positions that were critical towards these developments. From the institutional viewpoint, the history of the relationship between the Zurich Psychoanalytic Seminar and the Swiss Psychoanalytic Association is discussed, and the role of the dissident psychoanalytic movement Platform International is emphasized. Otto F. Kernberg’s critique to the psychoanalytic training system of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) is seen as very close to the positions taken by Platform International several years earlier.

Keywords: Self Psychology, narcissism, Zurich Psychoanalytic Seminar, Platform International, psychoanalytic training

Emilio Modena, Kernberg a Zurigo: un incontro significativo in "PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE" 4/2011, pp 477-480, DOI: 10.3280/PU2011-004004