Robert F. Bornstein

Robert F. Bornstein, PhD, received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1986, completed a year-long internship at the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY, and is University Professor of Psychology at Adelphi University. Dr. Bornstein has published numerous articles and book chapters on personality dynamics, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. He wrote The Dependent Personality (Guilford Press, 1993); The Dependent Patient: A Practitioner's Guide (American Psychological Association, 2005); Healthy Dependency (Newmarket Press, 2002); Elements of Personality: Discovering Connections (American Psychological Association, 2024); and coedited seven volumes of the Empirical Studies of Psychoanalytic Theories book series. Dr. Bornstein is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, and Society for Personality Assessment; his research has been funded by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Bornstein received SPA's 1995, 1999, 2002, 2012, and 2018 awards for contributions to the personality assessment literature, the 2016 American Psychological Association Division 12 Section IX (Assessment Psychology) Distinguished Contribution Award, and the American Psychological Foundation 2005 Theodore Millon Award for Excellence in Personality Research.