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Malone, J.C., Westen, D., & Levendosky, A.A. (2011). Personalities of adults with traumatic childhood separations. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 67(12), 1-24. (doi: 10.1002/jclp.20844).
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Hinrichs, J., DeFife, J.A., & Westen, D. (2011). Personality subtypes in adolescent and adult children of alcoholics: A two-part study. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 199(7), 487-498. (doi: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182214268).
Bradley, B., DeFife, J.A., Guarnaccia, C., Phifer, J., Fani, N., Ressler, K.J., & Westen, D. (2011). Emotion dysregulation and negative affect: Association with psychiatric symptoms. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 72(5), 685-691. (doi: 10.4088/JCP.10m06409blu).
Bradley, B., Westen, D., Mercer, K., Binder, E., Jovanovic, T., Crain, D., Wingo, A., & Heim, C. (2011). Association between childhood maltreatment and adult emotional dysregulation in a low income, urban, African American sample: Moderation by oxytocin receptor gene.
Development and Psychopathology, 23, 439-452. (doi: 10.1017/S0954579411000162).
Fowler, K.A., & Westen, D. (2011).
Subtypes of male perpetrators of intimate partner violence.
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 26(4), 607-639. (doi: 10.1177/0886260510365853).
Westen, D., Betan, E., & DeFife, J.A. (2011). Identity disturbance in adolescence: Associations
with borderline personality disorder. Development and Psychopathology, 23(1), 305-313. (doi: 10.1017/S0954579410000817)
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(2010). Prototype personality diagnosis in clinical practice: A viable alternative for DSM-5 and ICD-11. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 41(6), 482-487.
DeFife, J.A., Drill, R., Nakash, O., & Westen, D. (2010). Agreement between clinician and patient ratings of adaptive functioning and developmental history. American Journal of Psychiatry, 167(12), 1472-1478.
Shedler, J., Beck, A., Fonagy, P., Gabbard, G.O., Gunderson, J., Kernberg, O., Michels, R. & Westen, D. (2010). Personality disorders in DSM-5. American Journal of Psychiatry, 167(9), 1026-1028.
Jones, M., & Westen, D. (2010). Diagnosis and subtypes of
adolescent antisocial personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 24(2), 217-243.
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K. M., Bradley, B., & Westen, D. (2009). Personality subtypes of suicidal
adults. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 197(9), 687-694.
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Russ, E.,
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Journal of Psychiatry, 165, 1473-1481.
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Blagov, P.S. & Westen, D. (2008).
Questioning the coherence of Histrionic Personality Disorder: Borderline and
hysterical subtypes in adults and adolescents. Journal of Mental and Nervous Disease, 196, 785-797.
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The political brain: The role
of emotion in deciding the fate of the nation. New York: Public Affairs Books.
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adult attachment in clinical practice. Journal of Consulting and Clinical
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Thompson-Brenner,
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Bradley, R.,
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of personality disorders: An empirical investigation. British
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Westen, D.,
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