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    Edmund Bergler (/ˈbɛərɡlər/ BAIR-glər, German: [ˈɛtmʊnt ˈbɛʁɡlɐ]; July 20, 1899 – February 6, 1962) was an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst whose books...
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  • Bergler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Edmund Bergler (1899–1962), Austrian-American psychoanalyst Joseph Bergler (1753–1829)...
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  • impulse to destroy oneself and everything associated with oneself. Edmund Bergler developed the concept of narcissistic mortification in connection with...
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    (addiction) of "pathological gambling". According to psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler, there are six characteristics of pathological gamblers: They must play...
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  • depressives and expanded such analyses to include borderline personalities. Edmund Bergler emphasized the importance of infantile omnipotence in narcissism, and...
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    1947 was the term writer's block coined by the Austrian psychiatrist Edmund Bergler. All types of writers, including full-time professionals, academics...
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    mechanisms" in such a way as to offer new "prospects for therapy". Edmund Bergler, one of his early followers, considered that "as Freud and Ferenczi...
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    (link) H. Goldenberg; I. Goldenberg (2007). Family Therapy. p. 172. Edmund Bergler in J. Halliday/P. Fuller eds., The Psychology of Gambling (London 1974)...
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  • Homosexuality: Disease or Way of Life? (category Books by Edmund Bergler)
    1956 book by the psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler, in which the author argues that homosexuality is a curable illness. Bergler denies that homosexuality is...
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    NPD person is primarily stable. In The Psychology of Gambling (1957), Edmund Bergler considered megalomania to be a normal occurrence in the psychology of...
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