Martin Mayman Award

The Martin Mayman Award is bestowed annually by the Society for Personality Assessment for a distinguished contribution to the literature in personality assessment. Eligible contributions may consist of an outstanding case study, qualitative research project, or theoretical development. The JPA Editor asks all Consulting Editors to nominate outstanding articles from the previous year, each of which is then rated by the Editor and Associate Editors.

Meet the Martin Mayman Award Winners for paper, Showing True Colours: EMA Case Descriptions of Narcissistic States

Dr. Vanessa Freund

Vanessa Freund received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Maastricht University, the Netherlands, in 2024. Her research focuses on grandiose and vulnerable narcissistic traits and states in daily life, primarily through the use of ecological momentary assessment methods. Currently, she works as a clinical psychologist at the Ostebogen Clinic for Social Psychiatry and Neurology in northern Germany, where she is involved in the treatment of a wide range of disorders, from personality and internalising disorders to ADHD. Simultaneously, she is completing further clinical training at the Köln-Bonner Academy for Psychotherapy in Bonn, Germany.

Dr.Frenk Peeters

Frenk Peeters (M.D., Ph.D.) is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and currently Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands. His research interest was mainly aimed at the study of treatments for major depression and daily life studies in different, mostly clinical, populations with the use of ecological momentary assessment.

Dr. Jill Lobbestael

Jill Lobbestael received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Maastricht University in 2008 on cognitive beliefs and childhood trauma in borderline and antisocial personality disorders. After positions as Visiting Research Fellow (Harvard University, 2010) and Postdoc (Florida State University, 2011), she was appointed Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology at the Department of Clinical Psychological Science, Maastricht University. Lobbestael's research focuses on the darker sides of personality, with a particular interest in assessing, predicting and therapeutically lowering aggression. She headed the scientific track of the post-doctoral Clinical Psychology track at Rino Zuid, worked as a clinical therapist for patients with PTSD and personality disorders, and served as department head and director of the graduate school. Currently, she is Associate Professor and Vice Dean of Research of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience. Her research was funded by e.g. NWO (Veni, Brain&Cognition, Aspacia) and the ZonMw open competition.