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Kevin B. Meehan

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

Description

Kevin B. Meehan, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, and the Associate Director of the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology at LIU, Brooklyn. Dr. Meehan is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA, Div 29 & 39), and an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he is collaborating with his colleagues at the Personality Disorders Institute (PDI) as a researcher and study therapist in evaluating a manualized treatment for borderline personality disorder called Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP). His research evaluate self-regulation, social cognition, and interpersonal functioning in both college-age and personality disordered populations. He is a PD/PI of a NIH-funded multi-site study evaluating proximal indicators of suicide. He is an Associate Editor for Psychoanalytic Psychology. He also maintains a private practice in psychotherapy in downtown Brooklyn.



Specialties


Personality Disorders, Trauma, Suicide, Narcissism, Attachment, Self-Regulation, Psychodynamic and Interpersonal Therapies, Personality Assessment.

Publications

Mariotti, E. C., Waugh, M. H., McClain, C. M., Beevers, L. G., Clemence, A. J., Lewis, K. C., Miller, R., Mulay, A., Ridenour, J. M., Huprich, S., Lenger, K., Pitman, S., Meehan, K. B. (2021). Assessing self-definition and relatedness in level of personality functioning. Journal of Personality Disorders, 35, 516.


Ossola, P., Antonucci, C., Meehan, K. B., Cain, N. M., Ferrari, M., Soliani, A., Marchesi, C., Clarkin, J. F., Sambataro, F., & De Panfilis, C. (2021). Effortful Control is associated with executive attention: A computational study. Journal of Personality. DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12614


Sasso, S., Cain, N. M., Meehan, K. B., Zeng, R., & Wong, P. (2020). The impact of pathological narcissism on affect following social rejection. Journal of Personality Disorders, 34, 492.


Siefert, C., Sexton, J., Meehan, K. B., Nelson, S., Haggerty, G., Dauphin, V. B., & Huprich, S. K. (2020). Development of a short-form for the DSM-5 levels of personality functioning questionnaire. Journal of Personality Assessment 102(4), 516-526.


Meehan, K. B. (2019). An empirical perspective on the transference in psychotherapy: Commentary on Kernberg. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 7(6), 987-997.


Kivity, Y., Levy, K. N., Wasserman, R. H., Beeney, J. E., Meehan, K. B., & Clarkin, J. F. (2019). Conformity to prototypical therapeutic principles and its relation with change in reflective-functioning in three treatments for borderline personality disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 87(11), 975–988.


Lewis, K. C., Meehan, K. B., Cain, N. M., Wong, P. S., Clemence, A. J., Stevens, J., & Tillman, J. G. (2019). Quality of internalized object representations and suicidality in individuals with anaclitic and introjective personality styles. Journal of Personality Disorders, 33, 435-451.


Meehan, K. B., Cain, N. M., Roche, M. J., Clarkin, J. F., & De Panfilis, C. (2019). Rejection sensitivity and self-regulation of daily interpersonal events. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 49, 223–233.


Meehan, K. B., Siefert, C., Sexton, J., & Huprich, S. K. (2019). Expanding the role of levels of personality functioning in personality disorder taxonomy: Commentary on ‘Criterion A of the AMPD in HiTOP’. Journal of Personality Assessment. 101(4),367-373.


De Panfilis, C., Antonucci, C., Meehan, K. B., Cain, N. M., Soliani, A., Marchesi, C., Clarkin, J. F., & Sambataro, F. (2019). Facial emotion recognition and social-cognitive correlates of narcissistic features. Journal of Personality Disorders, 33, 433-449.


Cain, N. M., Meehan, K. B., Roche, M. J., Clarkin, J. F., & De Panfilis, C. (2019). Effortful control and interpersonal behavior in daily life. Journal of Personality Assessment, 101(3), 315-325.

- Winner of the Walter Klopfer Award from the Society for Personality Assessment


Nelson, S., Huprich, S. K., Meehan, K. B., Siefert, C., Haggerty, G., Sexton, J., Dauphin, V. B., Macaluso, M., Zackula, R., Baade, L., & Jackson, J. L. (2018). Convergent and discriminant validity and utility of the DSM-5 Levels of Personality Functioning Questionnaire (DLOPFQ): Associations with medical health care provider ratings and measures of physical health. Journal of Personality Assessment, 100(6), 671-679.


Meehan, K. B., Clarkin, J. F., & Lenzenweger, M. F. (2018). Conceptual models of borderline personality disorder: 1. Overview of prevailing and emergent models. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 41, 535-548.


Meehan, K. B., Clarkin, J. F., & Lenzenweger, M. F. (2018). Conceptual models of borderline personality disorder: 2. A process approach and its implications. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 41, 549-559.


Meehan, K. B., Cain, N. M., Roche, M. J., Clarkin, J. F., & De Panfilis, C. (2018). Rejection sensitivity and interpersonal behavior in daily life. Personality and Individual Differences, 126, 109-115.


Meehan, K. B., Cain, N. M., Clarkin, J. F., & De Panfilis, C. (2018). The impact of integrated object representations on rejection sensitivity. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 35(2), 254-259.


Morel, K. M., Haden, S. C., Meehan, K. B., & Papouchis, N. (2018). Adolescent female aggression: Functions and etiology. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 27(4), 367-385.


Huprich, S. K., Nelson, S., Meehan, K. B., Siefert, C., Haggerty, G., Sexton, J., Dauphin, V. B., Macaluso, M., Baade, L., Jackson, J. L., Zackula, R. (2018). Introduction of the DSM-5 Levels of Personality Functioning Questionnaire (DLOPFQ). Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 9(6), 553-563.


Gershy, N., Meehan, K. B., Papouchis, N., Omer, H., Sapir, I. S. (2017). Randomized Clinical Trail of Mindfulness Skills in Parent Management Training. Child & Youth Care Forum, 46(6), 783-803.


Meehan, K. B., De Panfilis, C., Cain, N. M., Antonucci, C., Soliani, A., Clarkin, J. F., & Sambataro, F. (2017). Facial emotion recognition and borderline personality pathology. Psychiatry Research, 255, 347-354.


Cain, N. M., De Panfilis, C., Meehan, K. B., & Clarkin, J. F. (2017). A multi-surface interpersonal circumplex assessment of rejection sensitivity. Journal of Personality Assessment, 99(1), 35-45.


De Panfilis, C., Meehan, K. B., Cain, N. M., & Clarkin, J. F. (2016). Effortful control, rejection sensitivity, and borderline personality disorder features in adulthood. Journal of Personality Disorders, 30(5), 595–612.


Markowitz, J. C., Meehan, K. B., Petkova, E., Zhao, Y., Van Meter, P. E., Neria, Y., Pessin, H., & Nazia, Y. (2016). Treatment preferences of psychotherapy patients with chronic PTSD. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 77(3), 363-370.


Lewis, K. C., Meehan, K. B., Cain, N. M., & Wong, P. S. (2016). Within the confines of character: A review of suicidal behavior and personality style. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 33(1), 179-202.


Lewis, K. C., Meehan, K. B., Cain, N. M., Wong, P. S., Clemence, A. J., Stevens, J., & Tillman, J. G. (2016). Impairments in object relations and chronicity of suicidal behavior in individuals with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 30(1), 19–34.


Weinstein, S. R., Meehan, K. B., Cain, N. M., Ripoll, L. H., Boussi, A. R., Papouchis, N., New, A. S., & Siever, L. J. (2016). Mental state identification, borderline pathology, and the neglected role of childhood trauma. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 7(1), 61-71.


Simon, S., Cain, N. M., Samstag, L. W., Meehan, K. B., & Muran, J. C. (2015). Assessing interpersonal subtypes in depression. Journal of Personality Assessment, 97(4), 364-373.


Clarkin, J. F., Meehan, K. B., & Lenzenweger, M. F. (2015). Emerging approaches to the conceptualization and treatment of personality disorder. Canadian Psychology, 56(2), 155–167.


Diamond, D., Clarkin, J. F., Levy, K. N., Meehan, K. B., Cain, N. M., Yeomans, F. E., & Kernberg, O. F. (2014). Change in attachment and reflective function in borderline patients with and without comorbid narcissistic personality disorder in transference focused psychotherapy. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 50, 175-210.


Diamond, D., & Meehan, K. B. (2013). Attachment and object relations in patients with narcissistic personality disorder: Implications for therapeutic process and outcome. Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session, 69(11), 1148-1159.


Cain, N. M., De Panfilis, C., Meehan, K. B., & Clarkin, J. F. (2013). Assessing interpersonal profiles associated with varying levels of effortful control. Journal of Personality Assessment, 95(6), 640-644.


Meehan, K. B., De Panfilis, C., Cain, N. M., & Clarkin, J. F. (2013). Effortful control and externalizing problems in young adults. Personality and Individual Differences, 55(5), 553-558.


De Panfilis, C., Meehan, K. B., Cain, N. M., & Clarkin, J. F. (2013). The relationship between effortful control, current psychopathology and interpersonal difficulties in young adults. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 54, 454-461.


Rutimann, D., & Meehan, K. B. (2012). Validation of a brief interview for assessing reflective function. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 60, 577-589.


Meehan, K. B., Levy, K. N., & Clarkin, J. F. (2012). Construct validity of a measure of affective communication in psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 29, 145-165.


Markowitz, J. C., Kaplowitz, M., Suh, E. J., Meehan, K. B., Neria, Y., Jonker, H., Rafaeli, A., & Lovell, K. (2012). Treating patients who strain the research psychotherapy paradigm. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 200, 594-597.


Yeomans, F. E., Levy, K. N., & Meehan, K. B. (2012). Treatment approaches for borderline personality disorder. Psychiatric Times, April, 42-46.


Drob, S. L., Meehan, K. B., Waxman, S. (2009). Clinical and conceptual problems in the attribution of malingering in forensic evaluations. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 37, 98-106.


Meehan, K. B., Ueng-McHale, J., Reynoso, J. S., Harris, B. H., Wolfson, V. M., Gomes, H., & Tuber, S. B. (2008). Self-regulation and internal resources in school-aged children with ADHD symptomatology: An investigation using the Rorschach inkblot method. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 72, 259-282.


Levy, K. N., Meehan, K. B., Kelly, K. M., Reynoso, J. S., Weber, M., Clarkin, J. F., & Kernberg, O. F. (2006). Change in attachment patterns and reflective function in a randomized control trial of transference focused psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74, 1027-1040.

- Winner of the Scientific Paper Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association
- Reprinted in J. Talbott (Ed.) Yearbook of Psychiatry and Applied Mental Health (Vol. 2008), pp. 66-67. Chicago, IL: Mosby-Year Book, Inc.


Harris, B. H., Reynoso, J. S., Meehan, K. B., Ueng-McHale, J., & Tuber, S. B. (2006). A child with ADHD; Convergences of Rorschach data and case material. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 5, 499-517.


Levy, K. N., Meehan, K. B., Weber, M., Reynoso, J., & Clarkin, J. F. (2005). Attachment patterns in borderline personality disorder: Implications for psychotherapy. Psychopathology, 38, 64-74.