PEOPLE
Lab Director
BENJAMIN N. JOHNSON, PH.D.
Assistant Professor
My interests lie in better understanding individuals affected by personality disorders, improving our assessment of non-suicidal self-harm, suicide, and other behaviors often linked to personality disorders, and providing individualized treatment recommendations and integrative treatment approaches derived from both behavioral and psychodynamic traditions.
I am also interested in the role of trauma in the development of personality disorders as well as in the similarities and differences between chronic physical pain and mental pain and the role of self-harm in pain and emotion regulation.
I endeavor to ground my research in improving clinical care for individuals with personality disorders or related difficulties. I also have a love of data analysis and incorporate various forms of latent variable modeling into my research.
I received my PhD from Penn State University, completed my predoctoral internship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, and am an assistant professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ.
Doctoral Students
Volunteers
Collaborators
Kenneth N. Levy, Ph.D.
Lindsey McKernan, Ph.D.
Yogev Kivity, Ph.D.
Lauren M. Lipner, Ph.D.