Kernberg Otto F
Director of the Personality Disorders Institute, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division; a Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and a Training and Supervising Analyst at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
Psychoanal Q. 2015 Jul;84(3):625-42. doi: 10.1002/psaq.12022.
This paper examines particular distortions in the process of free association characteristics of patients with narcissistic personality disorders. The author proposes that the dominant narcissistic transference developments typical of the early and middle phases of the analytic treatment of these patients are reflected in these distortions of free association. This paper gathers the various patterns that these defensive distortions present, along with technical interventions geared to deal with them.