PhD programs with personality disorder speciality

[rzsrzs]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a clinical psychology PhD program where I can specialize in personality disorders. Do you folks know of programs in the US that have faculty involved in that area?

Many thanks for your time!

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[JustNoticing]

I don't offhand, but a good approach that will help you with your applications anyway to be more knowledgeable about the current state of research in your area of interest is to go on google scholar and look articles on the topic that seem interesting to you and check out what people's author affiliations are and take it from there. See who they cite and collaborate with etc..

 

[Unipsychler]

I know that Ken Levy at Penn State has been involved in this area, if you're interested in the more psychodynamic side of things.

 

[futureapppsy2]

UWashington for BPD research, of course.

 

[DynamicDidactic]

UWashington for BPD research, of course.

If you are talking about Seattle and Linehan, she has unfortunately retired.

To the OP, you should be looking for researchers and not programs. However, PDs are more of a niche area compared to depression or anxiety (and the grant funding is worse). As stated above, locate some authors that do work you are interested in and see if they are part of quality training programs. Another method is find mentors that do work you are interested in but isn’t applied to PDs. You could sell yourself by saying you want to extend that research to PDs.

Good luck.

 

[romanticscience]

Stephanie D Stepp, PhD

Borderline personality disorder; Preschool emotion regulation; Proximal markers of suicide risk Dialectical behavior therapy; Suicide prevention; Mother-child interaction Research mentorship; Clinician training and supervision Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology

www.psychiatry.pitt.edu

 

[DynamicDidactic]

Stephanie D Stepp, PhD

Borderline personality disorder; Preschool emotion regulation; Proximal markers of suicide risk Dialectical behavior therapy; Suicide prevention; Mother-child interaction Research mentorship; Clinician training and supervision Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology

www.psychiatry.pitt.edu

That’s the problem. She doesn’t seem to be part of a doctoral training program. That’s what I meant about more niche and the OP should be looking for programs and not individuals so much.

 

[cara susanna]

There's a University of Eastern Michigan faculty member who's a personality disorder person, but I don't know the name offhand.

I think it might be easier if you could narrow down what you're interested in studying about personality disorders. For instance, if you're interested in BPD there's a whole slew of faculty studying that. Ditto antisocial PD or psychopathy. If you're more interested in general personality disorder assessment or theory, that'd be another group of people.

 

[BuckeyeLove]

What university was JP's lab in? Was that Canada? The violence risk and psychopathy folks (Bob Hare) always tend to be north of the border.

 

[Marissa4usa]

Lee Anna Clark and David Watson at University of Notre Dame
Erik Turkheimer, University of Virginia

 

[ExpertHoopJumper]

Josh Miller at University of Georgia

 

[futureapppsy2]

Jennifer Waltz at the University of Montana, although she may be nearing retirement.

 

[FreudianSlippers]

You could also focus on finding mentors who specialize in something peripherally related to PD (e.g. DBT researchers, suicidality, etc) and then when you interview (or beforehand), ask if you might be able to do your research with PD populations, but utilizing their speciality.

 

[conky124]

Don't worry, no matter what PHD clinical program you get into you'll get plenty of in-person experience with PD's in the lab and classroom.

 

[EmotRegulation]

Tim Trull at University of Missouri, Stephanie Mullins-Sweat at Oklahoma State. Chris Hopwood at UC Davis. Jen Cheavens at Ohio STate Note that there are a lot of personality disorder folks (particularly those interested in personality disorder assessment) on Twitter! But I agree with others that the best option is to look at articles and find people and then go figure out where they are located. Look at people publishing in the Journal of Personality Disorders, for example. There's plenty of folks out there.

 

[CatLover&PsychEnthusiast]

U of Wisconsin, Madison

 

[hsiren]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a clinical psychology PhD program where I can specialize in personality disorders. Do you folks know of programs in the US that have faculty involved in that area?

Many thanks for your time!

Hi, you could try Purdue's Clinical Psychology program. I believe Dr. Susan South and Dr. Donald Lynam both focus on personalities. Good luck!

 

[chicandtoughness]

It might also be helpful if you would specify the PDs (or even the cluster) you’re interested in. I see a lot of recommendations for cluster B and BPD researchers but for all we know you could really be into paranoid PD, which is a whole other set of individuals.

For BPD, Shireen Rizvi at Rutgers PsyD and Edward Selby at Rutgers PhD.