Clinical psychology professors researching personality disorders
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Clinical psychology professors researching personality disorders
Faculty who name borderline, narcissism, psychopathy or antisocial personality among their research interests.
105 faculty across 75 schools · interests last read 2026-08-13
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Adelphi University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Robert Bornstein
- personality disorders
Alliant International University Los Angeles
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Katherine Arenella
- Personality disorders
Tomas Yufik
- Personality disorders
American University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Nathaniel Herr
- borderline personality disorder (BPD) in adults/emerging adults
Antioch University Seattle
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Melissa Kennedy
- Chronic mental illness and personality disorders
Augsburg University
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Laurie Helgoe
- narcissism
Binghamton University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Mark F. Lenzenweger
- longitudinal study of severe personality disorders
- borderline personality disorder
Bowling Green State University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Meagan Docherty
- development of aggressive and antisocial attitudes/behavior from childhood
Carlos Albizu University
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Minoshka Liquet Suarez
- borderline personality disorder (BPD)
Drexel University
Clinical Psychology PhD
David DeMatteo
- psychopathy research
Duke University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Terrie Moffitt
- mental disorders and antisocial behavior
Zachary Rosenthal
- borderline personality disorder
Eastern Kentucky University
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Dustin Wygant, Ph.D.
- psychopathy
Emory University
Clinical Psychology PhD
W. Edward Craighead
- personality disorders and mood-disorder relapse
Florida State University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Thomas Joiner
- eating, mood and personality disorders
Fordham University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Alexander Kriss
- history and treatment of borderline personality disorder
Christopher Conway
- development of borderline personality disorder
Georgia State University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Eyal Aharoni
- psychopathy and antisocial behavior
Harvard University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Jill M. Hooley
- severe psychopathology including schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder
Indiana State University
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Courtney Wiesepape
- Self and interpersonal functioning in personality disorders
Indiana University Bloomington
Clinical Science PhD
Richard Viken
- antisocial behavior
Kent State University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Trevor Williams
- personality disorders
La Salle University
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Austin Angiollilo
- Borderline personality disorder
Long Island University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Kevin B. Meehan
- Personality disorders
- Trauma and narcissism
Lisa Wallner Samstag
- Depression, anxiety, and personality disorders
Matthew J. Morrison
- Personality disorders
Louisiana State University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Paul Frick
- Childhood antisocial and aggressive behavior
Loyola University Chicago
Clinical Psychology PhD
Jared Ruchensky
- personality pathology assessment and the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders
Mercer University
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Desiree Frain
- Borderline personality disorder
Michigan School of Psychology
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Ryan Blackstock
- Personality disorders
National Louis University
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Margaret Warner
- Borderline, narcissistic and dissociative identity presentations
Northwestern University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Karen Abram
- intergenerational patterns of substance use and antisocial behavior
Michael Brook
- psychopathic traits and emotion processing
Nova Southeastern University
Clinical Psychology PsyD
John Auerbach
- narcissism and borderline personality disorder
Oklahoma State University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Stephanie Mullins-Sweatt
- personality disorders via dimensional trait models
- successful psychopathy
Pacific University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Leonardo Bobadilla
- psychopathy and its neurobiological markers
- gender differences in personality disorders
Palo Alto University
Clinical Psychology PhD · Clinical Psychology PsyD
Christopher M. Weaver
- psychopathy and PTSD co-occurrence
Erin Heinemeyer
- personality disorders
Janice Kuo
- borderline personality disorder
Pennsylvania State University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Aaron Pincus
- pathological narcissism
- DSM-5 alternative model of personality disorders
Kenneth Levy
- personality disorders, especially borderline personality disorder
- psychotherapy mechanisms of change for personality disorders
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Leslie Fernandez
- Trauma, anxiety, depression, ADHD, bipolar, and personality disorders
Ponce Health Sciences University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Luis Diaz Medero
- Borderline personality disorder
Norka Polanco
- Borderline personality disorder
Yaritza López Robledo
- Personality disorders
Purdue University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Donald Lynam
- psychopathy in youth and adults
- general personality models applied to narcissism and Machiavellianism
- impulsigenic traits and antisocial/deviant behavior
Douglas Samuel
- dimensional models of personality disorder
James Noll
- personality disorders
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Clinical Psychology PhD
David Kosson
- psychopathy in offender and community populations
- attentional and emotional processing deficits in psychopathy
- developmental processes contributing to adult psychopathy
- interpersonal assessment of personality disorder
Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Louis Sass
- Severe psychopathology (schizophrenia, schizoid, borderline conditions)
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
Clinical Psychology PhD
Edward Selby
- personality disorders
Shireen Rizvi
- borderline personality disorder
Sam Houston State University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Jaime L. Anderson
- trait-based personality disorder diagnosis
- functional impairment from personality disorders
Texas A&M University
Clinical Psychology PhD
John Edens
- Psychopathy measurement
The Chicago School - Washington, D.C. Campus
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Edward Shearin
- Personality disorders
Lawrence Riso
- Psychopathology and personality disorders
The Chicago School, Chicago Campus
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Robert Switzer
- Severe personality disorders and Rorschach assessment
The City College of New York The Graduate Center, CUNY
Clinical Psychology PhD
Eric Fertuck
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Personality disorders more broadly
The Ohio State University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Jennifer Cheavens
- emotion regulation and borderline personality features
Matt Southward
- borderline personality disorder treatment
University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
Clinical Psychology PhD
Bradley White
- Etiology of antisocial and disruptive behavior
- Treatment of antisocial behavior across the lifespan
Jennifer Cox
- Conceptualization and assessment of psychopathy
- Juror understanding of psychopathy evidence
Randall Salekin
- Conduct disorder and psychopathy
- Treatment of psychopathy in youth
University of Central Florida
Clinical Psychology PhD
Jeffrey S. Bedwell
- Links to psychopathy, social anxiety, and suicidal ideation
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Clinical Psychology PhD
Daniel L. Segal
- Personality disorders across the lifespan
University of Delaware
Clinical Psychology PhD
Adele Hayes
- Personality disorders (avoidant, obsessive-compulsive)
Naomi Samimi-Sadeh
- Self-regulation deficits (psychopathy, antisocial personality, PTSD)
University of Georgia
Clinical Psychology PhD
Josh Miller
- personality disorders (psychopathy and narcissism assessment/conceptualization)
- externalizing behaviors: antisocial behavior, aggression
University of Kentucky
Clinical Psychology PhD
Shannon Sauer-Zavala
- borderline personality disorder treatment
Thomas Widiger
- dimensional models of personality disorder
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Clinical Psychology PhD
Katherine Dixon-Gordon
- borderline personality disorder
University of Michigan
Clinical Psychology PhD
Leah Richmond-Rakerd
- Disinhibitory disorders: substance use and antisocial behavior
Luke Hyde
- Developmental psychopathology of child antisocial behavior and aggression
Sheryl Olson
- Origins of childhood antisocial and disruptive behavior
University of Minnesota
Clinical Psychology PhD
Scott Vrieze
- drug use and antisocial behavior
University of Mississippi
Clinical Psychology PhD
Laura Drislane
- Impulse-control problems and psychopathy
- Affective and interpersonal features of psychopathy (callousness, manipulativeness)
University of Missouri
Clinical Psychology PhD
Ian Gizer
- antisocial personality disorder
University of Nevada Las Vegas
Clinical Psychology PhD
Russell Hurlburt
- Inner experience in clinical populations (bulimia, anxiety, schizophrenia, borderline personality, Asperger's)
Stephen Benning
- Psychopathy: fearless dominance and impulsive antisocial behavior
- Physiological correlates of personality disorders
University of Nevada, Reno
Clinical Psychology PhD
Blair Batky
- psychopathic traits
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Clinical Psychology PhD
Rosemery O. Nelson-Gray
- Borderline personality disorder and relationships
University of North Texas
Clinical Psychology PhD
Craig Neumann
- personality disorders (psychopathy, borderline, schizotypal)
University of Oregon
Clinical Psychology PhD
Maureen Zalewski
- maternal borderline personality disorder
Sheila Crowell
- suicide and personality disorders
University of Pennsylvania
Clinical Psychology PhD
Rebecca Waller
- child psychopathology and antisocial behavior
Sara Jaffee
- development of antisocial behavior
University of Pittsburgh
Clinical Psychology PhD
Colin E. Vize
- personality and aggressive/antisocial behavior
University of South Florida
Clinical Psychology PhD
Edelyn Verona
- personality disorders and externalizing/antisocial behavior
Marina Bornovalova
- externalizing psychopathology and borderline personality disorder
University of Washington
Clinical Psychology PhD
Katherine Anne (Kate) Comtois
- borderline personality disorder
Marsha Linehan
- borderline personality disorder
Washington State University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Chris Barry
- narcissism and self-esteem in adolescents
- psychopathy and antisocial traits in youth
David Marcus
- psychopathy and dark personality traits
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Mike Roche
- personality disorders and personality traits
- DSM-5 Alternative Model of Personality Disorders
West Virginia University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Hilary DeShong
- Measurement and conceptualization of personality disorders
Wichita State University
Clinical Psychology PhD
C. Brendan Clark
- personality disorders
William James College
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Anne W. Waters
- personality disorders, particularly narcissism
Aubrey Orloff
- personality disorders
Lucas Silva
- antisocial personality disorder
William Paterson University
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Megan Chesin
- suicidal behavior and borderline personality disorder
Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Jennifer Katele
- personality disorders and trauma
Wright State University
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Wendy Dragon
- assessment and treatment of borderline personality disorder
Xavier University
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Nicholas Salsman
- borderline personality disorder
Yale University
Clinical Psychology PhD
Arielle Baskin-Sommers
- cognitive-affective mechanisms of psychopathy and substance abuse
Yeshiva University
Clinical Psychology PsyD
Kenneth Critchfield
- personality disorders and chronic suicidality
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