Lee Anna Clark
Professor Emerita
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Notre Dame, IN 46556 - Phone
- +1 574-631-7482
- lclark6@nd.edu
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- https://psychology.nd.edu/faculty/lee-anna-clark/
Research and teaching interests
Research interests: assessment of personality pathology, relations of personality to psychopathology, structure of psychopathology. Teaching interests: Supervision of Clinical Assessment, Adult Psychopathology, Personality Pathology
Biography
Dr. Clark is a clinical psychologist whose research focuses on the assessment of personality pathology, for which she developed the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP), a psychological test that measures personality traits across the normal-abnormal spectrum. She is widely published and is one of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)'s "most highly cited" psychologists. She was a member of both the Personality and Personality Disorder Work Group for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorder, 5th Ed. (DSM-5), and the Personality Disorder Working Group for the International Classification of Diseases, 11th Ed. (ICD-11), which is the international standard for the diagnosis of mental disorder.
Professor Clark's current research focus, which was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, aims to identify the core elements of personality pathology that are needed to diagnose personality disorder, and to determine how personality pathology relates to other types of psychopathology and to psychosocial disability.
For her work that spans the fields of personality and psychopathology, Dr. Clark was awarded the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's 2017 Jack Block Award for Distinguished Contributions to Personality and also elected to SPSP’s Heritage Hall of Fame;, the Society for Research in Psychopathology's 2017 Joseph Zubin Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychopathology and its 2020 John Neale Sustained Mentorship Award;. And the 2019 John Gunderson Senior Researcher Award by the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorder, and the 2023 Senior Investigator Research Award of the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorder.
Education
Ph.D. 1982 University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN Clinical Psychology (Adult specialization), with supporting programs in personality assessment & cross-cultural psychology
M.A. 1977 Cornell University; Ithaca, New York Asian Studies (Specialization: Japan)
B. A. 1972 Cornell University; Ithaca, New York Psycholinguistics (College Scholar Program, with distinction)
Representative Publications
Clark, L. A. (2025). Wherefrom and whither PD? Recent developments and future possibilities n DSM-5 and ICD-11 personality disorder diagnosis. Current Psychiatry Reports, 27, 267-277. DOI: 10.1007/s11920-025-01602-y
Ro, E., Nuzum, H., & Clark, L. A. (2025). Competing models of personality disorder: Relations with psychosocial functioning. Assessment 32(3), 321-334. DOI: 10.1177/10731911241253409
Sharp, C., Clark, L. A., Balzen, K. M., Widiger, T., Stepp, S., Zimmerman, M., Krueger, R. F. (2025). The validity, reliability, and clinical utility of the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorder (AMPD) according to DSM-5 revision criteria. World Psychiatry, accepted for publication
Clark, L. A., Ro, E., Vittengl, J. R., & Jarrett, R. B. (2024). Longitudinal prediction of psychosocial functioning outcomes: DSM-5 Section II PDs versus Alternative Model personality dysfunction and traits. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 15(5), 341-351. DOI: 10.1037/PER0000673
Clark, L. A., Ro, E., Nuzum, H., Vanderbleek, E. N. & Allen, X. (2024). Personality disorder coverage, prevalence, and convergence: Do the DSM-5’s two models of personality disorder identify the same patients? Psychological Medicine, 54, 2010-2021.
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291724000357
Clark, L. A., & Watson, D. ( 2022). "Personality trait model of the DSM-5 Alternative Model of Personality Disorder (AMPD): A structural review." Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, & Treatment,.
Clark, L. A., Corona-Espinosa, A., Serapio-García, G., Khoo, S., Kotelnikova, Y., Levin-Aspenson, H. F., & Watson, D. (2021). "Preliminary scales for ICD-11 personality disorder: Self- and interpersonal dysfunction plus five personality disorder trait domains." Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.668724
Clark, L. A., & Watson, D. (2019). "Constructing validity: New developments in creating objective measuring instruments." Psychological Assessment, 31, 1412-1427. Invited paper for a Special Issue. DOI: 10.1037/pas0000626
Clark, L. A., Nuzum H., & Ro, E. (2018). "Manifestations of personality impairment severity: Comorbidity, course/prognosis, psychosocial dysfunction, and “borderline” personality features." Current Opinion in Psychology, 21, 117-121. DOI: 10.1016/J.COPSYC.2017.12.004
Clark, L. A., Cuthbert, B. N., Lewis-Fernandéz, R., Narrow, W., & Reed, G. M. (2017). "Three approaches to understanding and classifying mental disorder: ICD-11, DSM-5, and RDoC." Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 18(2), 72-145. DOI: 10.1177/1529100617727266