Faculty

Kevin B. Meehan

Assistant Professor of Psychology

B.A., New York UniversityM.A., John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNYPh.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Postdoctoral Fellow, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center

kevin.meehan@liu.edu

Description

Kevin B. Meehan is an assistant professor of psychology at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus. His theoretical interests include psychoanalytic and developmental theories of personality formation, specifically the development of mental representations, affect regulation, and mentalization, as well as the impact of impairment in these lines of development on personality and character structure across the lifespan; and attachment and object relations theories of personality disorders.

He has conducted clinical research focusing on: psychodynamic constructs as mechanisms of change in psychotherapy, including reflective functioning, transference, countertransference, and affect variables; the efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy; the etiology, phenomenology and process of change in patients with personality disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder; and manualized treatments for personality disorders, including Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT).

Specialties

Psychoanalytic and developmental theories of personality formation

Publications

• Co-author, “Psychodynamic theories of relationships,” published in The Encyclopedia of Human Relationships (2009)
• Co-author, “Measuring reflective function with a multi-dimensional questionnaire: Comparison to scoring reflective function on the AAI,” published in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2009)
• Author, “Review: ‘Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations,’” published in Psychotherapy (2009)
• Co-author, “Clinical and conceptual problems in the attribution of malingering in forensic evaluations,” published in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (2009)
• Co-author, “Self-regulation and internal resources in school-aged children with ADHD symptomatology: An investigation using the Rorschach inkblot method,” published in the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic (2008)
• Co-author, “Attachment, mentalization and reflective functioning,” published in “Clinical Applications of Adult Attachment” (2008)
• Co-author, “Commentary: ‘A fundamental polarity in psychoanalysis: Implications for personality development, psychopathology, and the therapeutic process,’” published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2007)
• Co-author, “Change in attachment patterns and reflective function in a randomized control trial of transference focused psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder,” published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (2006)
• Co-author, “A child with ADHD; Convergences of Rorschach data and case material,” published in the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy (2006)
• Co-author, “Rorschach configurations of children with ADHD,” published in “The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents: A Practitioner's Handbook” (2006)
• Co-author, “Attachment patterns in borderline personality disorder: Implications for psychotherapy,” published in Psychopathology (2005)
• Co-author, “Concept of the object on the Rorschach scale,” published in “Scoring the Rorschach: Seven Validated Systems” (2005)
• Co-author, “The diagnosis of Ganser syndrome in the practice of forensic psychology,” published in the American Journal of Forensic Psychology (2000)