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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Bruno Klopfer Award, Society for Personality Assessment

Overview

Leslie C. Morey is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with significant contributions to clinical psychology. Additional areas of study include philosophy, experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass personality disorders and psychopathology, psychotherapy techniques and applications, mental health and psychiatry, mental health research topics, psychological testing and assessment, suicide and self-harm studies, and psychopathy including forensic psychiatry and sexual offending.

Morey has published extensively in various venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Assessment
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychological Assessment

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on personality functioning and disorders. Notable works include:

  • "Criterion A: Level of personality functioning in the alternative DSM-5 model for personality disorders." (2022), Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • "Global personality dysfunction and the relationship of pathological and normal trait domains in the DSM-5 alternative model for personality disorders" (2020), Journal of Personality

Other influential papers often feature collaborations with different authors, extending the scope to suicide attempts and prognostic utility of personality traits, among others.

Frequent co-authors in Morey's publications consist of:

  • Morgan N. McCredie
  • Christopher J. Hopwood
  • Andrew E. Skodol
  • Joseph Maffly-Kipp
  • Johannes Zimmermann

Throughout their career, Morey has received recognition including the Bruno Klopfer Award from the Society for Personality Assessment in 2017.

Best Publications

  • The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Dimensional Alternative to Traditional Nosologies

    Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson;Thomas M. Achenbach

  • The Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study: reliability of axis I and II diagnoses.

    Mary C. Zanarini;Andrew E. Skodol;Donna S. Bender;Regina T. Dolan

  • Ten-Year Course of Borderline Personality Disorder: Psychopathology and Function From the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study

    John G Gunderson;Robert L. Stout;Thomas H. McGlashan;M. Tracie Shea;M. Tracie Shea

  • Functional impairment in patients with schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

    Andrew E. Skodol;John G. Gunderson;Thomas H. McGlashan;Ingrid R. Dyck

  • Toward a Model for Assessing Level of Personality Functioning in DSM–5, Part I: A Review of Theory and Methods

    Donna S Bender;Leslie C Morey;Andrew E Skodol

  • The Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study: baseline Axis I/II and II/II diagnostic co-occurrence.

    Thomas H. McGlashan;C. M. Grilo;A. E. Skodol;J. G. Gunderson

  • The collaborative longitudinal personality disorders study (CLPS): Overview and implications

    Andrew E. Skodol;John G. Gunderson;M. Tracie Shea;Thomas H. McGlashan

  • Childhood maltreatment associated with adult personality disorders: findings from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study

    Cynthia L. Battle;M. Tracie Shea;Dawn M. Johnson;Shirley Yen

  • MMPI scales for DSM-III personality disorders: their derivation and correlates.

    Leslie C. Morey;Mark H. Waugh;Roger K. Blashfield

  • Progress in achieving quantitative classification of psychopathology

    Robert F. Krueger;Roman Kotov;David Watson;Miriam K. Forbes

  • Two-Year Prevalence and Stability of Individual DSM-IV Criteria for Schizotypal, Borderline, Avoidant, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders: Toward a Hybrid Model of Axis II Disorders

    Thomas H. McGlashan;Carlos M. Grilo;Charles A. Sanislow;Elizabeth Ralevski

  • Personality Assessment in DSM--5: Empirical support for rating Severity, Style, and Traits

    Christopher J. Hopwood;Johanna C. Malone;Emily B. Ansell;Charles A. Sanislow

  • Personality disorders in DSM-III and DSM-III-R: convergence, coverage, and internal consistency.

    Leslie C. Morey

  • Stability of functional impairment in patients with schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder over two years

    Andrew E. Skodol;Maria E. Pagano;Donna S. Bender;M. Tracie Shea

  • Proposed changes in personality and personality disorder assessment and diagnosis for DSM-5 Part I: Description and rationale.

    Andrew E. Skodol;Lee Anna Clark;Donna S. Bender;Robert F. Krueger

  • Confirmatory factor analysis of DSM-IV criteria for borderline personality disorder: findings from the collaborative longitudinal personality disorders study.

    Charles A. Sanislow;Carlos M. Grilo;Leslie C. Morey;Donna S. Bender

  • Borderline Personality Disorder Criteria Associated With Prospectively Observed Suicidal Behavior

    Shirley Yen;M. Tracie Shea;Charles A. Sanislow;Carlos M. Grilo

  • Personality disorder types proposed for DSM-5.

    Andrew E. Skodol;Donna S. Bender;Leslie C. Morey;Lee Anna Clark

  • Two-Year Stability and Change of Schizotypal, Borderline, Avoidant, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders

    Carlos M. Grilo;Charles A. Sanislow;John G. Gunderson;Maria E. Pagano

  • The Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study: Development, aims, design, and sample characteristics.

    John G. Gunderson;M. Tracie Shea;Andrew E. Skodol;Thomas H. McGlashan

  • Personality Assessment Inventory

    L. C. Morey

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos M. Grilo
Carlos M. Grilo Yale University
John G. Gunderson
John G. Gunderson Harvard University
M. Tracie Shea
M. Tracie Shea Brown University
Christopher J. Hopwood
Christopher J. Hopwood University of Zurich
Charles A. Sanislow
Charles A. Sanislow Wesleyan University
Mary C. Zanarini
Mary C. Zanarini Harvard University
Andrew E. Skodol
Andrew E. Skodol University of Arizona
Shirley Yen
Shirley Yen Harvard Medical School
Robert L. Stout
Robert L. Stout Brown University
Donna S. Bender
Donna S. Bender Tulane University

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