Contents -- Preface -- Part One. Psychopathology -- 1 A Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality Disorders -- 2 Hatred as a Core Affect of Aggression -- 3 Pathological Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Background and Diagnostic Classification -- 4 The Diagnosis of Narcissistic Pathology in Adolescents -- 5 Perversion, Perversity, and Normality: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Considerations -- Part Two. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy -- 6 Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and Supportive Psychotherapy: Contemporary Controversies -- 7 Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Patients with Borderline Personality Organization: An Overview -- 8 The Psychodynamics and Psychotherapeutic Management of Psychopathic, Narcissistic, and Paranoid Transferences -- 9 A Severe Sexual Inhibition in a Patient with Narcissistic Personality Disorder -- 10 Acute and Chronic Countertransference Reactions -- 11 Omnipotence in the Transference and in the Countertransference -- 12 The Risk of Suicide in Severe Personality Disorders: Differential Diagnosis and Treatment -- 13 A Technical Approach to Eating Disorders in Patients with Borderline Personality Organization -- 14 The Management of Affect Storms in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Borderline Patients -- References -- Index.