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Psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg writes of the psychopath who can perfectly mimic a human personality without having one: "They obtain very little enjoyment from life other than from the tributes they receive from others or from their own grandiose fantasies, and they feel restless and bored when external glitter wears off and no new sources feed their self-regard." Stuart had tired of selling minks and perhaps of his wife, who was about to realize her own dreams of a family, dreams he did not share. As stupefying as it seems, Stuart apparently carried out his monstrous deed only to remake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presumed Innocent: Charles Stuart | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

This has added to the problem of deciding who, in an age of less work and more play, is a disturbed narcissist and who is normal. Otto Kernberg of New York, a leading psychoanalytic researcher on narcissism, admits that even many certified psychoanalysts have narcissistic disturbances. But not to worry, Kernberg says; they usually stop practicing because narcissists hate to hear about other people's problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Narcissus Redivivus | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...forty members wish to achieve "a conjunction of interests between the support of democratic movements around the world and America's own long-term self-interest," Martin Kernberg '76, head of the group's sub-committee on Latin America said Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 40 Students Form Discussion Group On Foreign Policy | 10/17/1975 | See Source »

...group takes a position completely independent of the standard and over-worked cliches of both the right and the left," Kernberg said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 40 Students Form Discussion Group On Foreign Policy | 10/17/1975 | See Source »

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