Laboratory forPersonality, Psychopathology
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KENNETH N. LEVY, PH.D.

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2022

(2022)
Levy, K. N., Yeomans, F. E., & Spina, D. S. (2022). Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. In S. K. Huprich (Ed.), Personality Disorders and Pathology: Integrating Clinical Assessment and Practice in the DSM-5 and ICD-11 Era (pp. 211–236). American Psychological Association. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2h43b0f.12
(2022)
Levy, K. N., & Spina, D. S. (2022). The centrality of a representation-based framework for understanding the emotional underpinnings of personality pathology: A commentary on “The emotional underpinnings of personality pathology: Implications for psychotherapy”. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 29(3), 287–290. https://doi.org/10.1037/cps0000103
(2022)
Keefe, J. R., Levy, K. N., Sowislo, J. F., Diamond, D., Doering, S., Hörz-Sagstetter, S., Buchheim, A., Fischer-Kern, M., &; Clarkin, J. F. (2022). Reflective functioning and its potential to moderate the efficacy of manualized psychodynamic therapies versus other treatments for borderline personality disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000760
Kenneth N. Levy and Daniel S. Spina
(2022)
Levy, K. N., & Spina, D. S. (2022). The centrality of a representation-based framework for understanding the emotional underpinnings of personality pathology: A commentary on “The emotional underpinnings of personality pathology: Implications for psychotherapy”. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 29(3), 287–290. https://doi.org/10.1037/cps0000103

2021

(2021)
Kivity, Y., Levy, K. N., Kelly, K. M., & Clarkin, J. F. (2021). In-session reflective functioning in psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder: The emotion regulatory role of reflective functioning. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 89(9), 751–761.
(2021)
Levy, K. N., Johnson, B. N., & Notsu, H. (2021). Crossing the Alphabet Divide. Personality Disorders, 111–136. https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780197574393.003.0005 ‌
(2021)
Diener, M. J., Gottdiener, W. H., Keefe, J. R., Levy, K. N., & Midgley, N. (2021, February 1). Treatment of depression in children and adolescents. The Lancet Psychiatry. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30518-6/fulltext
(2021)
Levy, K. N., & Ellison, W. D. (2021). The availability of training opportunities in personality disorders in American Psychological Association- and Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System-accredited clinical and counseling psychology doctoral programs. Training and Education in Professional Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tep0000376
(2021)
Moeller, A., Johnson, B., Levy, K., & LeBreton, J. (2021, June 25). Conceptualizing and measuring the implicit personality: The state of the science. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128192009000144
(2021)
Crow, T., Levy, K., Bradley, B., Fani, N., & Powers, A. (2021, June 03). The roles of attachment and emotion dysregulation in the association between childhood maltreatment and PTSD in an inner-city sample. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014521342100212X
(2021)
Yeomans, F., & Levy, K. N. (2005). Psychodynamic Psychotherapies. In 2092709451 1446975124 J. Clarkin (Ed.), Textbook of Personality Disorders (pp. 275-288). Washington D.C., Marlyand: American Psychiatric Press.
(2021)
Martin, J. A., & Levy, K. N. (2022). Chronic feelings of emptiness in a large undergraduate sample: Starting to fill the void. Personality and mental health, 16(3), 190–203. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1531
(2021)
Steiner, T. G., Levy, K. N., Brandenburg, J. C., & Adams, R. B. (2021, January 12). In the mind of the beholder: Narcissism relates to a distorted and enhanced self-image. Personality and Individual Differences. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886920307996

2020

(2020)
Ellison, W. D., Levy, K. N., Newman, M. G., Pincus, A. L., Wilson, S. J., & Molenaar, P. C. M. (2020). Dynamics among borderline personality and anxiety features in psychotherapy outpatients: An exploration of nomothetic and idiographic patterns. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 11(2), 131–140. https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000363
(2020)
Dawood, S., Hallquist, M. N., Pincus, A. L., Ram, N., Newman, M. G., Wilson, S. J., & Levy, K. N. (2020). Comparing Signal-Contingent and Event-Contingent Experience Sampling Ratings of Affect in a Sample of Psychotherapy Outpatients. Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment, 42(1), 13–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-019-09766-7
(2020)
Kivity, Y., Levy, K. N., Kolly, S., & Kramer, U. (2020). The therapeutic alliance over 10 sessions of therapy for borderline personality disorder: Agreement and congruence analysis and relation to outcome. Journal of Personality Disorders, 34(1), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2019_33_376
(2020)
Levy, K. N. (2020). Contemporary psychodynamic treatments: Commentary on psychoanalytic/psychodynamic approaches to personality disorders. In C. W. Lejuez & K. L. Gratz (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of personality disorders (pp. 440–443). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333931.076
(2020)
Johnson, B. N., Clouthier, T. L., Rosenstein, L. K., & Levy, K. N. (1970, January 1). Psychotherapy for personality disorders. SpringerLink. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_925
(2020)
Levy, K.N. and Pantelides, J. (2020). Borderline Personality Disorder. In The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences (eds B.J. Carducci, C.S. Nave, J.S. Mio and R.E. Riggio). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118970843.ch279
(2020)
Hörz, S., Diamond, D., Clarkin, J. F., Levy, K. N., Rentrop, M., Kern, M. F., Cain, N. M., & Doering, S. (1970, January 1). Características Clínicas del trastorno comórbido de la Personalidad Narcisística en pacientes con Trastorno Límite de la Personalidad. Dialnet. Retrieved from https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7855727

2019

(2019)
Levy, K. N., Kivity, Y., & Yeomans, F. E. (2019). Transference-focused psychotherapy: Structural diagnosis as the basis for case formulation. In U. Kramer (Ed.), Case formulation for personality disorders: Tailoring psychotherapy to the individual client (pp. 19–40). Elsevier Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813521-1.00002-3
(2019)
Crow, T. M., & Levy, K. N. (2019). Adult attachment anxiety moderates the relation between self-reported childhood maltreatment and borderline personality disorder features. Personality and mental health, 13(4), 239–249. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1468
(2019)
Levy, K. N., Keefe, J. R., & Ehrenthal, J. C. (2019). Research support for psychodynamic constructs. In D. Kealy & J. S. Ogrodniczuk (Eds.), Contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy: Evolving clinical practice (pp. 89–106). Elsevier Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813373-6.00006-4
(2019)
Johnson, B. N., & Levy, K. N. (2019, September 23). Identifying Unstable and Empty Phenotypes of Borderline Personality Through Factor Mixture Modeling in a Large Nonclinical Sample. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/per0000360
(2019)
Levy, K. N. (2020). Contemporary psychodynamic treatments: Commentary on psychoanalytic/psychodynamic approaches to personality disorders. In C. W. Lejuez & K. L. Gratz (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of personality disorders (pp. 440–443). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333931.076
(2019)
Levy, K. N., Hlay, J. K., Johnson, B. N., & Witmer, C. P. (2019). An attachment theoretical perspective on tend-and-befriend stress reactions. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 5(4), 426–439. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-019-00197-x
(2019)
Levy, K. N., Kivity, Y., & Yeomans, F. E. (2019). Transference-focused psychotherapy: Structural diagnosis as the basis for case formulation. In U. Kramer (Ed.), Case formulation for personality disorders: Tailoring psychotherapy to the individual client (pp. 19–40). Elsevier Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813521-1.00002-3

2018

(2018)
Ehrenthal, J. C., Levy, K. N., Scott, L. N., & Granger, D. A. (2018). Attachment-related regulatory processes moderate the impact of adverse childhood experiences on stress reaction in borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 32(Suppl), 93–114. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2018.32.supp.93
(2018)
Levy, K. N., & Johnson, B. N. (2019). Attachment and psychotherapy: Implications from empirical research. Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne, 60(3), 178–193. https://doi.org/10.1037/cap0000162
(2018)
Lazar, Susan G. MD; Bendat, Meiram, JD, PhD; Gabbard, Glen MD; Levy, Kenneth PhD; McWilliams, Nancy PhD; Plakun, Eric M. MD; Shedler, Jonathan PhD; Yeomans, Frank MD, PhD. Clinical Necessity Guidelines for Psychotherapy, Insurance Medical Necessity and Utilization Review Protocols, and Mental Health Parity. Journal of Psychiatric Practice: May 2018 – Volume 24 – Issue 3 – p 179-193 doi: 10.1097/PRA.0000000000000309
(2018)
Clarkin, J. F., Cain, N., Lenzenweger, M. F., & Levy, K. N. (2018). Transference‑focused psychotherapy. In W. J. Livesley & R. Larstone (Eds.), Handbook of personality disorders: Theory, research, and treatment (pp. 571–585). The Guilford Press.
(2018)
Levy, K. N., Kivity, Y., Johnson, B. N., & Gooch, C. V. (2018). Adult attachment as a predictor and moderator of psychotherapy outcome: A meta‐analysis. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 74(11), 1996–2013. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22685
(2018)
Lazar, S. G., Bendat, M., Gabbard, G., Levy, K., McWILLIAMS, N., Plakun, E. M., Shedler, J., & Yeomans, F. (2018). Clinical Necessity Guidelines for Psychotherapy, Insurance Medical Necessity and Utilization Review Protocols, and Mental Health Parity. Journal of psychiatric practice, 24(3), 179–193. https://doi.org/10.1097/PRA.0000000000000309
(2018)
Levy, K. N., Kelly, K. M., & Ray, W. J. (2018). Case studies in abnormal psychology. SAGE.
(2018)
Levy, K. N., McMain, S., Bateman, A., & Clouthier, T. (2018). Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. The Psychiatric clinics of North America, 41(4), 711–728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2018.07.011
(2018)
Scala, J. W., Levy, K. N., Johnson, B. N., Kivity, Y., Ellison, W. D., Pincus, A. L., Wilson, S. J., & Newman, M. G. (2018). The Role of Negative Affect and Self-Concept Clarity in Predicting Self-Injurious Urges in Borderline Personality Disorder Using Ecological Momentary Assessment. Journal of personality disorders, 32(Suppl), 36–57. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2018.32.supp.36

2017

(2017)
Levy, K. N., Meehan, K. B., Clouthier, T. L., Yeomans, F. E., Lenzenweger, M. F., Clarkin, J. F., & Kernberg, O. F. (2017). Transference-focused psychotherapy for adult borderline personality disorder. In D. B. Fishman, S. B. Messer, D. J. A. Edwards, & F. M. Dattilio (Eds.), Case studies within psychotherapy trials: Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods (pp. 190–245). Oxford University Press.
(2017)
Hörz-Sagstetter, S., Diamond, D., Clarkin, J. F., Levy, K. N., Rentrop, M., Fischer-Kern, M., Cain, N. M., & Doering, S. (2018). Clinical Characteristics of Comorbid Narcissistic Personality Disorder in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder. Journal of personality disorders, 32(4), 562–575. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2017_31_306
(2017)
Levy, K., Draijer, N., & Yeomans, F. (2017). Transference-focused psychotherapy. In A. Wenzel (Ed.), The sage encyclopedia of abnormal and clinical psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 3584-3586). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483365817.n1431
(2017)
Yeomans, F. E., Delaney, J. C., & Levy, K. N. (2017). Behavioral activation in TFP: The role of the treatment contract in transference-focused psychotherapy. Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.), 54(3), 260–266. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000118

2016

(2016)
Beeney, J. E., Hallquist, M. N., Ellison, W. D., & Levy, K. N. (2016). Self-other disturbance in borderline personality disorder: Neural, self-report, and performance-based evidence. Personality disorders, 7(1), 28–39. https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000127
(2016)
Kramer, U., & Levy, K. N. (2016, February 18). Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders: Questions of Clinical Utility. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/int0000027
(2016)
Mallinckrodt, B., Anderson, M. Z., Choi, G., Levy, K. N., Petrowski, K., Sauer, E. M., Tishby, O., & Wiseman, H. (2017). Pseudosecure vs. individuated-secure client attachment to therapist: Implications for therapy process and outcome. Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, 27(6), 677–691. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2016.1152411
(2016)
Perez, D. L., Vago, D. R., Pan, H., Root, J., Tuescher, O., Fuchs, B. H., Leung, L., Epstein, J., Cain, N. M., Clarkin, J. F., Lenzenweger, M. F., Kernberg, O. F., Levy, K. N., Silbersweig, D. A., & Stern, E. (2016). Frontolimbic neural circuit changes in emotional processing and inhibitory control associated with clinical improvement following transference-focused psychotherapy in borderline personality disorder. Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 70(1), 51–61. https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.12357