Dr. John Livesley is Professor Emeritus at the University of British
Columbia having previously been Professor and at one time Head of the
Department of Psychiatry. He obtained a Ph.D in psychology from the
University of Liverpool in 1969 and a medical degree from the same
university in 1974. Subsequently, he trained in psychiatry at the
University of Edinburgh. He has held academic appointments in
psychology at the University of Liverpool and in psychiatry at the
Universities of Edinburgh and Calgary.
Dr. Livesley’s research focuses on the classification, assessment, and
aetiology of personality disorders and the development of an integrated
approach to treatment. He is a Fellow the Royal Society of Canada and
editor of the Journal of Personality Disorders. He has served as
advisor to the DSM-III-R and DSM-IV and is a member of the DSM-V
Working Group on the classification of personality disorder. He has
made empirical and theoretical contributions to the literature on
personality disorder including several books: Practical Management of
Personality Disorder (2003) and three edited books – DSM-IV Personality
Disorders (1995), the Handbook of Personality Disorders (2001), and
Severe Personality Disorders (2007; co-edited with Bert van Luyn and
Solaman Akthar).
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