 Otto Friedman Kernberg is a psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry at Wheel Cornell Medical College. Widely known for his psychoanalytic theories on borderline personality organization and narcissistic pathology, Dr. Kernberg designed an intensive form of psychoanalytic psychotherapy known as transference-focused psychotherapy, the goal of which is to integrate object representations and parts of the self in individuals with personality disorders. Dr. Kernberg's model of development has also been influential in understanding milestones in personality organization. His work has been instrumental in outlining psychotherapeutic approaches to suicide prevention and has urged for the delicate and educated approach to patients with suicidal and self-destructive behaviors. Born in Vienna, Dr. Kernberg emigrated with his family early in life to Chile where he studied psychiatry and psychoanalysis at the Chilean Psychoanalytic Society. He served as director of the CF Menengar Memorial Hospital in Topeka, Kansas, the psychotherapy research project of the Menengar Foundation, the General Clinical Service of the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and the Institute of Personality Disorders of the New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center. And he has received numerous awards, including the Edward A. Strecker Award from the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital and the George E. Daniels Merritt Award of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine.