Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.

1980 Simon Bolivar Award Recipient

Lecture Title: Value Systems and Sexual Morality

Dr. Kernberg is an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine. His family fled Nazi Germany in 1939, emigrating to Chile. He received his M.D. from the University de Chile Escuela de Pregrado Fac de Medicina (1953) and first came to the U.S. in 1959 on a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to study research in psychotherapy with Jerome Frank at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1961, he emigrated to the U.S., joining the C.F. Menninger Memorial Hospital, later becoming director of the hospital until 1965. Dr. Kernberg was an APA Distinguished Life Fellow and Simon Bolivar Award recipient in 1980.