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Good afternoon my name is Dr Ubergi I'm
the coordinator of the graduate programs
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Here and counsel in psychology and
psychotherapy
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I want to welcome everyone, specifically
our guest Dr. Lance McWilliams
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who is here for the third time,
and Dr Kernberg that we have the great
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honor of hosting here at the college.
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I have to say that I'm actually personally
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moved because, as a graduate student in
New York
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I felt very proud I had the chance to see
one of your lectures.
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And I never thought that
I would get the chance again
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so, [laughs] I have been
very honored to have that
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privilege for a second time.
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I want to invite the provost to the podium
so that he can introduce our guests.
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Thank you, everyone for coming
and enjoy the lecture
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[applause]
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Wow, this is a wonderful crowd.
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Welcome, to the American College of Greece
Delighted to see you all.
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I want to welcome you on my behalf
as well as our president who could not
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be here today due to an emergency
meeting.
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It's always nice to have people
on this campus
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besides, of course, our students who are here and
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always here and [...] here night and day I think
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But we're here to uh to partake in this important
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event because we have two distinguished people
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visiting us. Of course, uh, Lance McWilliams is here
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for the third time and we're delighted to have you,
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thank you. And of course Otto Kernberg
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Who is, of course an scholar in the field.
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As I was looking at the some of his background I-I noticed that we had something
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in common. Uh, which is that we spent, not at the
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same time, but at different times
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a number of years ago
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Topeka, Kansas, both of us
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Uh, and I had actually visited
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the, uh, medical clinic
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because I had two friends
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good friends, who actually were doctors there
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and they were a bad influence on me
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because they, uh, told me how to smoke cigars.
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Anyway. Uh,
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This is one of the important reasons why educational institutions exist
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, to add to the body of knowledge and to share
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knowledge. That's what we're doing this next two days tonight, next two days.
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Uh, you probably know much
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about Professor Kernberg but, uh, I should tell you that he's the
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director of personality disorders institute
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at the New York Presbyterian hospital
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Of course Professor Meritas, of psychiatry at Yale Medical College
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Cornell. And, you know I can go on and on.
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You are here because you know all of that
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We're delighted to have you.
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Uh, next McWilliams teaches at Rutgers University
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graduate school of professional psychology
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and has of course a practice as well in New Jersey
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as he told me he's originally Massachusetts,
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as is also renowned author and scholar.
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We're delighted to have you to come up and
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speak and introduce our honored guest. Welcome, thank you.
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[applause]
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Hello..[different language]
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Thank you. Um, I see many familiar faces and it's
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wonderful to be back
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Uh, here's the plan for tonight
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I'm going to say a few words about Dr. Kernberg. Uh, he is going
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to talk for about an hour, uh, then we will
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open it up for discussion. I find that I
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often learn more when I'm engaged with
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dialogue and that's often true with Dr. Kernberg. I've
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learned more from him when he has an opportunity
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to respond to questions and comments.
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Uh, what I want to say about him is that he is
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a great integrator, this probably has something to do
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with the fact that he was both European
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or all three, European, South American, and North
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American. He's got very wide interests
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in the science and the social sciences and especially
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the arts. Um, many of you know his writings
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but perhaps you don't know as much about
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his longstanding interest in supervising
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and engaging with creative others, whether students or colleagues.
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He's been tireless politically in challenging
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training procedures that deaden therapists'
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natural vitality and subdue their
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curiosity, and their creativity.
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He enjoys differences of opinion,
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and never takes them personally.
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And, he never loses the differentiation
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between ideas that he may not like
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and thinkers that he may like very much as people.
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So he's a very easy person to have an interesting argument with.
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I won't go on too long because I'm going to start embarrassing him, but one
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thing I do want to say is that is that unlike
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many important theorists,
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he is allergic to being idealized.
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Uh, my personal debt to him though is very great, and I just wanted
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to take this opportunity to say something
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about that. When I got the idea to write the diagnosis
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that I know many of you have read
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I was an unknown in the field and I went to him and he gave me
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of his time, he shared his lunch with me,
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and he encouraged me to write that book.
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I don't know if you remember that meeting, but
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it made a great deal of difference
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to me, and he's done that with numerous people
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uh, throughout the field.
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I also wanted to acknowledge his wife
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Kay Heran and his longtime colleague
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whom I've been pleased to know for more than 20 years.
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So, having said all that, I will turn the program over to Dr. Kernberg
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who's gonna be talking about components and functions
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of a normal personality, the nature of personality disorders, their overall symptyomology and underlying structure, and the relationship between
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neural-biological, interpsychic, and behavioral aspects
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of normal and pathological personality organization.
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[applause]
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Thank you, Nancy, for your kind introduction
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Uh, I'm impressed by the fact that I
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imagine that everyone speaks english here
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although that I assume that this college
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can you hear me in the last row?
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Yes? Okay.
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Um, So I would like to
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review with you the concept of personality-
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personality disorder.
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Um, it, um, it is a an actual issue, because,
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there is so much confusion about it in the field.
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There is so much controversy because different researchers
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have studied different aspects of personality.
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Both normal and abnormal. And each of them
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classifies and organizes things according to his
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own field. Um you have Cloniger who started
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affect systems and um then, classifies personality
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according to the predominant pathology
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one of the major[....] that determine
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major affect activation.
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Uh, you have um, social physiologists
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along with Benjamin who is interested in the
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social [...] aspects of personality.
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Organize into concepts of affiliative versus
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aversive or hostile behavior. Dominants and submission
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and that creates a structure of personality
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builds on the inter-personal functions of it.
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You have the psycho annalists who will use
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classifications of the bases of prodominant
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drive. The drive conflicts the oral, anal phallic
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personality structure.
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It's central. And then of course
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the Epidemiologists, who study, um, large
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groups of normal popluations. Make endless lists of
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personality traits. About 150 and submit
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thousands of individuals to them. And find out
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which one by factor, by ethic status.
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Group together and classify personality
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according to the grouping of personality
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traits of those tests. Of those instruments.
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This leads to the 5 factor theory that I'm sure that everybody knows.