Clinical & Research Resources
Curated reading in psychodynamic theory and treatment, psychological assessment, psychometrics, and personality science — selected for clinicians and researchers who want to ground their practice in primary literature.
Psychodynamic Theory & Treatment
Treating Affect Phobia
The definitive clinical manual for Affect Phobia Therapy. Teaches therapists to identify and systematically desensitize the core conflicts driving anxiety, depression, and inhibition — grounded in decades of process and outcome research.
Understanding Transference
The canonical text behind the CCRT — the empirically derived psychoanalytic method for decoding recurring relationship patterns across narratives. The scientific backbone of the CCRT scoring engine.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
A session-by-session, evidence-informed guide to contemporary psychodynamic treatment — bridging clinical intuition with the rigor of randomized trial methodology.
Handbook of Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
A multi-chapter reference covering empirically supported psychodynamic treatments across disorders, populations, and delivery formats.
Psychological Assessment & Psychometrics
Psychological Testing and Assessment
The standard graduate-level text covering psychometric theory, test construction, reliability, validity, normative interpretation, and clinical use of psychological instruments.
Handbook of Psychological Assessment
Comprehensive instrument-level coverage including clinical interview, intelligence tests, neuropsychological assessment, and personality measurement. Organized for practical clinical use.
Handbook of Implicit Social Cognition
The definitive reference on implicit measurement methodology — IAT, priming paradigms, reaction-time-based measures, and their applications to personality and social psychology research.
Selected Primary Literature — Personality & Psychopathology
Toward a resolution of a longstanding controversy in personality disorder diagnosis: Contrasting correlates of schizoid and avoidant traits
N = 123 nonclinical participants. Social anhedonia uniquely predicted schizoid features; need to belong and internalized shame uniquely predicted avoidant features.
Personality and behavior: A meta-analysis of habitual responses to self-report questionnaires
Seminal psychometric support for five-factor personality structure and its relationship to behavioral prediction across contexts.
The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation
The foundational paper establishing the need to belong as a core human motivation — the theoretical basis for the N2B scale.
Social anhedonia and negative symptoms in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders
A body of work establishing social anhedonia as a key negative-symptom marker in psychosis-spectrum research, and validating the RSAS across clinical and nonclinical samples.