Hello friends!

Today I’m going to talk about the differentiation of the personality organization.

I will be based in the Otto Kernberg book named structured interview. And I’ll put focus on the table 1-1 “Differentiation of the personality organization”.

To make this clearer, you need to know that there are three different types of personality structures that Kernberg explain:

1.       Neurotic

2.       Borderline

3.       Psychotic

And also, for distinguish these three structures, there are structural standards:

1.       Integration of the identity

2.       Defensive Operations

3.       Reality test

It’s very difficult to separate those personalities. That’s why Kernberg did those standards. A little explanation is:

1.       How much one person can distinguish themselves from the others, and if the person have clear who is themselves, and who are the others.

2.       How that person defend themselves from the contradictions that can make in the interview with the psychologist

3.       How the person perceive the reality, what sense give it to the reality.

I’m not going to explain this with details, because it’ll take a long time, but that’s the basic and main structure. I choose this topic, because when I read it from university, I found it very interesting. It cost me to understand it, but once I did, I felt very happy (and I had a great mark in the test).