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2014 Master Lectures
Master Lecture I:
Paul Lerner Memorial Master Lecture
Contemporary Interpersonal Assessment: From
Personality Dispositions to Personality Dynamics
Dr. Aaron L. Pincus, is an SPA Fellow and professor of psychology at
The Pennsylvania State University where he teaches personality assessment
and psychotherapy for the doctoral program in clinical psychology. Dr.
Pincus received his BS in psychology from U.C. Davis, his MA in personality psychology from
U.C. Berkeley, and his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of British Columbia where he
studied with Jerry S. Wiggins. Dr. Pincus has published over 100 articles and chapters, and his research
focuses on the development of new assessment measures and methods based on the Interpersonal
Circumplex Model, as well as the integration of personality, psychopathology, and psychotherapy
using interpersonal theory and assessment. He is the new Editor-in-Chief of ASSESSMENT and was
the recipient of the 2007 American Psychological Association Division 12/American Psychological
Foundation Theodore Millon Award for contributions to personality psychology.
Master Lecture II:
The DSM-5 and Personality Disorders: Observations
on Process and Content
Dr. Leslie Morey is the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Professor of Psychology
at Texas A&M University, and is an internationally recognized expert in
psychodiagnostic assessment and psychiatric classification. He received his
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Florida in 1981, and has
previously served on the faculty at Vanderbilt University, Harvard Medical
School, and the Yale University School of Medicine. He has published over
230 articles, books, and chapters on the assessment and diagnosis of mental disorders, and his work has
been cited in the scientific literature more than 9,500 times. His research has included the development
of assessments, including the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI), that have been translated into
dozens of languages and are among the most widely used psychodiagnostic measures in the world.
His studies of psychiatric classification as a psychometric application culminated in his appointment
by the American Psychiatric Association to the DSM-5 Work Group for Personality and Personality
Disorders and to the DSM-5 Task Force’s Gender and Cross-Cultural Study Group.
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