VITA
October, 2011
Thomas A. Widiger, Ph.D.
T. Marshall Hahn Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Kentucky
I. Address
115 Kastle Hall
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0044
Telephone: (859) 257-6849
FAX: (859) 323-1979
e-mail:
II. Education
Delta College 9/70-5/72
University Center, MI A.A. 1972, Liberal Arts
University of Michigan 9/72-8/74
Ann Arbor, MI B.G.S. 1974, General Studies
Magna Cum Laude
Miami University 9/75-8/81
Oxford, OH Ph.D. 1981, Clinical Psychology
III. Professional Societies
American Psychological Association, Member
Division 12: Clinical Psychology, Member
American Psychological Society, Charter Fellow
American Psychiatric Association, Honorary Fellow
Association for Research in Personality, Member
Association for Research in Personality Disorders, Member
Society for Personality Assessment, Fellow
Society for Research in Psychopathology, Member
IV. Awards and Honors
Distinguished Scientist Award, Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology, (2009)
Walter G. Klopfer Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Literature (2000) by the Society for Personality Assessment
University of Kentucky Research Professorship (2001-2002)
Kirwan Award by the University of Kentucky (2002)
T. Marshall Hahn Professor of Psychology (Endowed chair, 2006-present)
V. Editorial Boards
Associate Editor: (Current and Past)
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (2003-Currently; Nolen-Hoeksema)
Journal of Personality Assessment (2009-Currently; Meyer)
Journal of Personality Disorders (1996-Currently; Livesley & Links)
Journal of Abnormal Psychology (2000-2010; Baker & Watson)
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2002-2008; Diener & Carver)
Consulting Editor:(Currently)
Assessment
Clinical Psychology Review
Journal of Personality
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Psychological Assessment
Psychological Review
Ad hoc reviews:
American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychological Bulletin, Archives of General Psychiatry, American Psychologist, Psychological Assessment, and others
VI. Professional Committees (Current and Past)
American Psychiatric Association, DSM-IV Research Coordinator (1988-1994)
World Health Organization, Committee for the Revision of ICD-10 (2005)
Co-Chair, American Psychiatric Association DSM-5 Research Planning Conference, Dimensional Models of Personality Disorder: Etiology, Pathology, Phenomenology, and Treatment, December, 2004
National Institute of Mental Health & American Psychiatric Association,
DSM-V Research Planning Work Group, Member (1999-2006)
Society for Research in Psychopathology, Board of Directors (2001-2004)
Academy of Psychological Clinical Science, Executive Board (2002-2005)
Association for Research in Personality Disorders, Executive Board (2005-Currently)
UK Center for Research on Violence Against Women, Faculty Associate
VII. Research
A. Past and Current Publications
1978-1980
Coyne, J., & Widiger, T. (1978). Toward a participatory model of psychotherapy. Professional Psychology, 9, 700-710.
Widiger, T., Knudson, R., & Rorer, L. (1980). Convergent and discriminant validity of measures of cognitive styles and abilities. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, 116-129.
Widiger, T., & Maitland-Schilling, K. (1980). Toward a construct validation of the Rorschach. Journal of Personality Assessment, 44, 450-459.
1982
Widiger, T. (1982). Prototypic typology and borderline diagnoses. Clinical Psychology Review, 2, 115-135.
Widiger, T. (1982). Psychological tests and the borderline diagnosis. Journal of Personality Assessment, 46, 227-238.
1983
Clarkin, J., Widiger, T., Frances, A., Hurt, S., & Gilmore, M. (1983). Prototypic typology and the borderline personality disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 92, 263-275.
Rorer, L., & Widiger, T. (1983). Personality structure and assessment. Annual Review of Psychology, 34, 431-463.
Widiger, T. (1983). Utilities and fixed diagnostic rules. Comments on Finn. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 92, 495-498.
Widiger, T., & Kelso, K. (1983). Psychodiagnosis of Axis II. Clinical Psychology Review, 3, 491-510.
Widiger, T., & Rinaldi, M. (1983). An acceptance of suicide. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 20, 263-273.
1984
Widiger, T., Hurt, S., Frances, A., Clarkin, J., & Gilmore, M. (1984). Diagnostic efficiency and DSM-III. Archives of General Psychiatry, 41, 1005-1012.
Widiger, T., & Nietzel, M. (1984). Comment: Kaplan's view of DSM-III: The data revisited. American Psychologist, 39, 1319-1320.
Widiger, T., & Rorer, L. (1984). The responsible psychotherapist. American Psychologist, 39, 503-515.
1985
Widiger, T. (1985). Review of Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory. In J. Mitchell (Ed.), The Ninth Mental Measurements Yearbook (Vol. 1, pp. 979-981). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Widiger, T. (1985). Review of Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory. In J. Mitchell, (Ed.), The Ninth Mental Measurements Yearbook (Vol. 1, pp. 986-988). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Widiger, T., & Frances, A. (1985). Axis II personality disorders: Diagnostic and treatment issues. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 36, 619-627.
Widiger, T., & Frances, A. (1985). The DSM-III personality disorders. Perspectives from psychology. Archives of General Psychiatry, 42, 615-623.
Widiger, T., & Trull, T. (1985). The empty debate over the existence of mental illness: Comments on Gorenstein. American Psychologist, 40, 468-470.
Widiger, T., Williams, J., Spitzer, R., & Frances, A. (1985). The MCMI as a measure of DSM-III. Journal of Personality Assessment, 49, 366-378.
1986
Frances, A., & Widiger, T. (1986). The classification of personality disorders: An overview of problems and solutions. In A. Frances & R. Hales (Eds.), Psychiatry update: Volume V. The American Psychiatric Association annual review (pp. 240-257). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
Frances, A., & Widiger, T. (1986). Methodological issues in personality disorder diagnosis. In T. Millon & G. Klerman (Eds.), Contemporary directions in psychopathology (pp. 381-400). New York: Guilford.
Widiger, T., Frances, A., Warner, L., & Bluhm, C. (1986). Diagnostic criteria for the borderline and schizotypal personality disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 95, 43-51.
Widiger, T., Sanderson, C., & Warner, L. (1986). The MMPI, prototypal typology, and borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Assessment, 50, 540-553.
Widiger, T., Williams, J., Spitzer, R., & Frances, A. (1986). The MCMI and DSM-III: A brief rejoinder to Millon (1985). Journal of Personality Assessment, 50, 198-204.
1987
Frances, A., & Widiger, T. (1987). A critical review of four DSM-III personality disorders: Borderline, avoidant, dependent, and passive-aggressive. In G. Tischler (Ed.), Diagnosis and classification in psychiatry (pp. 269-289). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Frances, A., & Widiger, J. (1987). The diagnosis and treatment of passive-aggressive personality disorder. In F. Flach (Ed.), Directions in psychiatry (Vol. 7, pp. 3-7). New York: Hatherleigh.
Frances, A., & Widiger, T. (1987). Personality disorders. In A. Skodol & R. Spitzer (Eds.), An annotated bibliography of DSM-III (pp. 125-133). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
Milich, R., Widiger, T., & Landau, S. (1987). Diagnosis of attention deficit and conduct disorders using conditional probabilities. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 55, 762-767.
Trull, T., Widiger, T., & Frances, A. (1987). Covariation of avoidant, schizoid, and dependent personality disorder criteria sets. American Journal of Psychiatry, 144, 767-771.
Widiger, T. (1987). Multiple personality, hypnosis, and most other orders. Review of Bliss (1986). Contemporary Psychology, 32, 457-458.
Widiger, T. (1987). The self-defeating personality disorder: Introduction. Journal of
Personality Disorders, 1, 157-160.
Widiger, T. (1987). The self-defeating personality disorder: Afterword. Journal of Personality Disorders, 1, 200-201.
Widiger, T., & Frances, A. (1987). Definitions and diagnoses: A brief response to Morey and McNamara. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 96, 286-287.
Widiger, T., & Frances, A. (1987). Interviews and inventories for the measurement of personality disorders. Clinical Psychology Review, 7, 49-75.
Widiger, T., Frances, A., & Trull, T. (1987). A psychometric analysis of the social-interpersonal and cognitive-perceptual items for the schizotypal personality disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 44, 741-745.
Widiger, T., & Hyler, S. (1987). Axis I/Axis II interactions. In J. Cavenar, R. Michels & A. Cooper (Eds.), Psychiatry. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott.
Widiger, T., & Sanderson, C. (1987). The convergent and discriminant validity of the MCMI as a measure of the DSM-III personality disorders. Journal of Personality Assessment, 51, 228-242.
Widiger, T., & Settle, S. (1987). Broverman et al. revisited: An artifactual sex bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53, 463-469.
Widiger, T., & Trull, T. (1987). Behavioral indicators, hypothetical constructs, and personality disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 1, 82-87.
Widiger, T., Trull, T., Hurt, S., Clarkin, J., & Frances, A. (1987). A multidimensional scaling of the DSM-III personality disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 44, 557-563.
1988
Frances, A., Jacobsberg, L., Widiger, T., Manning, D., & Fyer, M. (1988). Hypomanic personality disorder: A distinct entity? Integrative Psychiatry, 6, 11-12.
Trull, T., Widiger, T., & Frances, A. (1988). Mr. Trull and Associates reply. American Journal of Psychiatry, 145, 277-278.
Widiger, T. (1988). Treatment planning: Treating self-defeating personality disorders. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 39, 819-821.
Widiger, T., & Frances, A. (1988). Personality disorders. In J. Talbott, R. Hales, & S. Yudofsky (Eds.), The American Psychiatric Press textbook of psychiatry (pp. 621-648). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
Widiger, T., Frances, A., Spitzer, R., & Williams, J. (1988). The DSM-III-R personality disorders: An overview. American Journal of Psychiatry, 145, 786-795.
Widiger, T., Frances, A., & Sweeney, M. (1988). Schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 1, 13-18.
1989
Ford, M., & Widiger, T. (1989). Sex bias in the diagnosis of histrionic and antisocial personality disorders. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 57, 301-305.
Frances, A., Kocsis, J., Marin, D., Manning, D., Markowitz, J., Mason, B., & Widiger, T. (1989). Diagnostic criteria for dysthymic disorder. Psychopharmacology Bulletin, 25, 325-329.
Frances, A., & Widiger, T. (1989). Treatment of Avoidant personality disorder. In T. Karasu (Ed.), Psychiatric treatment manual (pp. 2759-2762). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
Frances, A., Widiger, T., & Pincus, H. A. (1989). The development of DSM-IV. Archives of General Psychiatry, 46, 373-375.
Jacobsberg, L., Goldsmith, S., Widiger, T., & Frances, A. (1989). Assessment of DSM-III personality disorders. In S. Wetzler (Ed.), Measuring mental illness: Psychometric assessment for clinicians (pp. 139-159). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
Kass, F., Spitzer, R., Williams, J. B., & Widiger, T. (1989). Self-defeating personality disorder and DSM-III-R. Development of diagnostic criteria. American Journal of Psychiatry, 146, 1022-1026.
Marin, D., Widiger, T., Frances, A., Goldsmith, S., & Kocsis, J. (1989). Personality disorders: Issues in assessment. Psychopharmacology Bulletin, 26, 508-514.
Rogers, J. H., & Widiger, T. (1989). Comparing idiothetic, ipsative, and normative indices of consistency. Journal of Personality, 57, 847-869.
Widiger, T. (1989). The categorical distinction between personality and affective disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 3, 77-91.
Widiger, T. (1989). Self-defeating personality disorder. In A. Frances (Ed.), New developments in diagnosis and treatment: An audio seminar. New York: Guilford Publications.
Widiger, T. (1989). Comment on Lewis and Appleby (1988). British Journal of Psychiatry, 154, 266.
Widiger, T., & Frances, A. (1989). Controversies concerning the self-defeating personality disorder. In R. Curtis (Ed.), Self-defeating behaviors: Experimental research, clinical impressions, and practical implications (pp. 289-309). New York: Plenum.
Widiger, T., & Frances, A. (1989). Epidemiology, diagnosis, and comorbidity of borderline personality disorder. In A. Tasman, R. Hales & A. Frances (Eds.), Review of Psychiatry (Vol. 8, pp. 8-24). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
Widiger, T., Frances, A., Spitzer, R., & Williams, J. (1989). Reply to Dr. Sheeley. American Journal of Psychiatry, 146, 416.
Widiger, T., Frances, A., & Trull, T. (1989). Interviewing for personality disorders. In R. Craig (Ed.), Clinical and diagnostic interviewing (pp. 221-236). New York: Jason Aronson.
Widiger, T., & Rogers, J. H. (1989). Prevalence and comorbidity of personality disorders. Psychiatric Annals, 19, 132-136.
Widiger, T., & Spitzer, R. (1989). Criticisms of DSM-III-R. American Journal of Psychiatry, 146, 566-567.
1990
Bluhm, C., Widiger, T., & Miele, G. (1990). Interpersonal complementarity and individual differences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 464-471.
Frances, A., First, M., Pincus, H., Widiger, T., & Davis, W. (1990). DSM-IV in progress: An introduction to DSM-IV. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 41, 493-494.
Frances, A., Pincus, H. A., Widiger, T. A., Davis, W. W., & First, M. B. (1990). DSM-IV: Work in progress. American Journal of Psychiatry, 147, 1439-1448.
Frances, A., Widiger, T., & Fyer, M. (1990). The influence of classification methods on comorbidity. In J. Maser & C. R. Cloninger (Eds.), Comorbidity of mood and anxiety disorders (pp. 41-59). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
Hurt, S., Clarkin, J., Widiger, T., Fyer, M., Sullivan, T., Stone, M., & Frances, A. (1990). Evaluation of DSM-III decision rules for case detection using joint conditional probability structures. Journal of Personality Disorders, 4, 121-130.
Marin, D., Frances, A., & Widiger, T. (1990). Personality disorders. In A. Stoudemire (Ed.), Clinical psychiatry for medical students (pp. 137-156). Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott.
Synder, D., Widiger, T., & Hoover, D. (1990). Methodological considerations in validating computer-based test interpretations: Controlling for response bias. Psychological Assessment: A Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2, 470-477.
Trull, T., Widiger, T., & Guthrie, P. (1990). The categorical versus dimensional status of borderline personality disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 99, 40-48.
Widiger, T. (1990). A commentary on an integrated theory of schizophrenia. Journal of Personality Disorders, 4, 106-110.
Widiger, T., Frances, A., Pincus, H., & Davis, W. (1990). DSM-IV literature reviews: Rationale, process, and limitations. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 12, 189-202.
Widiger, T., Freiman, K., & Bailey, B. (1990). Convergent and discriminant validity of personality disorder prototypic acts. Psychological Assessment: A Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2, 107-113.
1991
Berry, D., Wetter, M., Baer, R., Widiger, T., Sumpter, J., Reynolds, S., & Hallam, R. (1991). Detection of random responding on the MMPI-2: Utility of F, Back F, & VRIN scales. Psychological Assessment: A Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 3, 418-423.
Frances, A., Davis, W., Kline, M., Pincus, H., First, M., & Widiger, T. (1991). The DSM-IV field trials: Moving towards an empirically derived classification. European Psychiatry, 6, 307-314.
Frances, A., First, M., Widiger, T., Miele, G., Tilly, S., Davis, W., & Pincus, H. (1991). An A to Z guide to DSM-IV conundrums. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 100, 407-412.
Frances, A., Hall, W., First, M., Widiger, T., & Pincus, H. (1991). Issues and proposals for changes in mood disorders in DSM-IV. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry Advances Monograph, 1, 5-9.
Frances, A., Pincus, H., Manning, D., & Widiger, T. (1991). Classification of anxiety states in DSM-III and perspectives for its classification in DSM-IV. In N. Sartorius (Ed.), Anxiety: Psychobiological and clinical perspectives (pp. 139-146). Washington, DC: Hemisphere Publishing Co.