Professor Westen received his B.A. at Harvard University, an M.A. in Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex (England), and his Ph.D. in clinical Psychology at the University of Michigan, where he subsequently taught for six years. For several years he was Chief Psychologist at Cambridge Hospital and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. His major areas of research are personality disorders, eating disorders, psychotherapy effectiveness, adolescent psychopathology, political psychology, and the interface of psychodynamics and neuroscience. He is an occasional commentator on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and his holiday song, "Oy, to be a Goy on Christmas," still airs on the radio in New York during the holiday season.
Teaching
- PSYC 111: Introduction to Psychology II: Social, Developmental, Normal and Abnormal Personality
- PSYC 475S: Theories of Psychotherapy (Senior Seminar)
- PSYC 541: Personality and Psychopathology
- PSYC 770: Psychometrics and Clinical Inference
Other Affiliations
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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