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Bornstein, Robert F.

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Robert F. Bornstein is Professor of Psychology in the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University, Garden City, NY. He is a clinical psychologist who conducts research in four main areas (1) personality disorders, (2) personality assessment, (3) unconscious processes, and (4) interpersonal dependency.

Early Life and Educational Background

Bornstein was born on September 6, 1959, in New York City. He received his BA from Amherst College in 1981, where he was, to put it mildly, an undistinguished student. After earning C grades in many of the Biology Department’s core courses, Bornstein was summarily dismissed from Amherst’s premedical program midway through his sophomore year; he majored instead in Psychology and Fine Arts. His first publication, in 1979, was a study of bacterial membrane energetics. His theoretical and empirical work continues to be informed by his early training in biology and chemistry, as well as art history.

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  • In the following sections Bornstein’s key contributions to the literature on personality disorders, personality assessment, unconscious processes, and interpersonal dependency are listed. Although they are categorized to reflect the primary emphasis and contribution of each publication, many of these papers have implications for more than one research domain.

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Personality Disorders

  • Bornstein, R. F. (1998). Reconceptualizing personality disorder diagnosis in DSM-V: The discriminant validity challenge. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 5, 333–343.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (2003). Behaviorally referenced experimentation and symptom validation: A paradigm for 21st century personality disorder research. Journal of Personality Disorders, 17, 1–18.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (2006). A Freudian construct lost and reclaimed: The psychodynamics of personality pathology. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 23, 339–353.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (2013). Combining interpersonal and intrapersonal perspectives on personality pathology. Journal of Personality Disorders, 27, 296–302.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (2016). Toward a firmer foundation for ICD-11: On the conceptualization and assessment of personality pathology. Personality and Mental Health, 10, 123–126.

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  • Bornstein, R. F., & Huprich, S. K. (2011). Beyond dysfunction and threshold-based classification: A multidimensional model of personality disorder diagnosis. Journal of Personality Disorders, 25, 331–337.

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  • Bornstein, R. F., & McLeod, B. A. (2016). Beyond biology: Sex, gender, and personality disorders. In V. M. Brabender & J. L. Mihura (Eds.), Handbook of gender, sex, and psychological assessment (pp. 211–232). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

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  • Bornstein, R. F., Bianucci, V., Fishman, D. P., & Biars, J. W. (2014). Toward a firmer foundation for DSM-5.1: Domains of impairment in DSM-IV/DSM-5 personality disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 28, 212–224.

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  • Widiger, T. A., & Bornstein, R. F. (2001). Histrionic, narcissistic, and dependent personality disorders. In P. B. Sutker & H. E. Adams (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychopathology (3rd ed., pp. 509–531). New York: Plenum Press.

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  • Winarick, D. J., & Bornstein, R. F. (2015). Toward resolution of a longstanding controversy in personality disorder diagnosis: Contrasting correlates of schizoid and avoidant traits. Personality and Individual Differences, 79, 25–29.

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Personality Assessment

  • Bornstein, R. F. (2002). A process dissociation approach to objective-projective test score interrelationships. Journal of Personality Assessment, 78, 47–68.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (2009). Heisenberg, Kandinsky, and the heteromethod convergence problem: Lessons from within and beyond psychology. Journal of Personality Assessment, 91, 1–8.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (2011a). From symptom to process: How the PDM alters goals and strategies in psychological assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment, 93, 142–150.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (2011b). Toward a process-focused model of test score validity: Improving psychological assessment in science and practice. Psychological Assessment, 23, 532–544.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (2012). Rorschach score validation as a model for 21st century personality assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment, 94, 26–38.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (2015a). Personality assessment in the diagnostic manuals: On mindfulness, multiple methods, and test score discontinuities. Journal of Personality Assessment, 97, 446–455.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (2015b). Process focused assessment of personality pathology. In S. K. Huprich (Ed.), Personality disorders: Toward theoretical and empirical integration in diagnosis and assessment (pp. 271–290). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

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  • Bornstein, R. F., & Hopwood, C. J. (in press). Evidence based assessment of interpersonal dependency. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.

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  • Hiller, J. B., Rosenthal, R., Bornstein, R. F., Berry, D. T. R., & Brunell-Neulieb, S. (1999). A comparative meta-analysis of Rorschach and MMPI validity. Psychological Assessment, 11, 278–296.

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  • Hopwood, C. J., & Bornstein, R. F. (Eds.). (2014). Multimethod clinical assessment. New York: Guilford Press.

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Unconscious Processes

  • Bornstein, R. F. (1992). Critical importance of stimulus unawareness for the production of subliminal psychodynamic activation effects: An attributional model. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 180, 68–75.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (1993). Implicit perception, implicit memory, and the recovery of unconscious material in psychotherapy. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 181, 337–344.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (1999). Source amnesia, misattribution, and the power of unconscious perceptions and memories. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 16, 1–24.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (2004). Subliminality, consciousness, and temporal shifts in awareness: Implications within and beyond the laboratory. Consciousness and Cognition, 13, 613–618.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (2007). Might the Rorschach be a projective test after all? Social projection of an undesired trait alters Rorschach Oral Dependency scores. Journal of Personality Assessment, 88, 354–367.

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  • Bornstein, R. F., & Masling, J. M. (Eds.). (1998). Empirical perspectives on the psychoanalytic unconscious. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

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  • Bornstein, R. F., & Pittman, T. S. (Eds.). (1992). Perception without awareness: Cognitive, clinical, and social perspectives. New York: Guilford Press.

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  • Bornstein, R. F., Leone, D. R., & Galley, D. J. (1987). The generalizability of subliminal mere exposure effects: Influence of stimuli perceived without awareness on social behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53, 1070–1079.

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  • Bornstein, R. F., Ng, H. M., Gallagher, H. A., Kloss, D. M., & Regier, N. G. (2005). Contrasting effects of self-schema priming on lexical decisions and Interpersonal Stroop Task performance: Evidence for a cognitive/interactionist model of interpersonal dependency. Journal of Personality, 73, 731–761.

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  • Manza, L., & Bornstein, R. F. (1995). Affective discrimination and the implicit learning process. Consciousness and Cognition, 4, 399–409.

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Interpersonal Dependency

  • Bornstein, R. F. (1992). The dependent personality: Developmental, social and clinical perspectives. Psychological Bulletin, 112, 3–23.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (1993). The dependent personality. New York: Guilford Press.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (1996). Beyond orality: Toward an object relations/interactionist reconceptualization of the etiology and dynamics of dependency. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 13, 177–203.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (1998). Depathologizing dependency. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 186, 67–73.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (2005). The dependent patient: A practitioner’s guide. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (2006). The complex relationship between dependency and abuse: Converging psychological factors and social forces. American Psychologist, 61, 595–606.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (2011). An interactionist perspective on interpersonal dependency. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 124–128.

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  • Bornstein, R. F. (2012). From dysfunction to adaptation: An interactionist model of dependency. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 8, 291–316.

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  • Bornstein, R. F., Riggs, J. M., Hill, E. L., & Calabrese, C. (1996). Activity, passivity, self-denigration and self-promotion: Toward an interactionist model of interpersonal dependency. Journal of Personality, 64, 637–673.

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  • Bornstein, R. F., Languirand, M. A., Geiselman, K. J., Creighton, J. A., West, M. A., Gallagher, H. A., & Eisenhart, E. A. (2003). Construct validity of the Relationship Profile Test: A self-report measure of dependency-detachment. Journal of Personality Assessment, 80, 64–74.

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Bornstein, R.F. (2017). Bornstein, Robert F.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_383-1

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