Theodore Millon

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Theodore Millon, Ph.D., D. Sc., (born 1928) is an American psychologist, the only child of immigrant Jewish parents from Lithuania and Poland. Receiving degrees from both American and European universities, he headed a large Pennsylvania mental hospital for some 15 years, shortly thereafter becoming the founding editor of the Journal of Personality Disorders and the inaugural president of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders and a full professor at Harvard Medical School and the University of Miami. A leading researcher and theorist, he has been referred to in international circles as the grandfather of personology and personality disorders.

His award-winning evolutionary theory of personality structure and development has guided the development of seven relatively brief Millon Inventories, among them the MCMI-III, MBMD, MACI, MIPS and most recently, the M-PACI and MCCI, each focused on a different clinical population, e.g., adults, adolescents, medical patients. Furthermore, the Parents' Preference Test (PPT) is based on his personality model, adapted to the interpersonal perspective. As a key member of the DSM-III and IV, his theory is closely correlated with the official classification system, increasing the utility of his associated diagnostic instruments.

A prolific author, he has written or edited more than thirty books, including Disorders of Personality, and The Millon Inventories: A Practitioner’s Guide to Personalized Clinical Assessment, published in 2008.

Winner of numerous lifetime awards, Professor Millon was also the 2003 recipient of the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Contributor to Applied Research award. The APA and American Psychological Foundation have established the Theodore Millon Award for mid-career scholars in personality psychology. His former students and colleagues published a Festschrift honoring his lifetime achievements in Stephen Strack's 2005 Handbook of Personology and Psychopathology (Wiley). Professor Millon now serves as Dean and Scientific Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Personology and Psychopathology ^[1].

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Millon, Theodore (with Roger D. Davis) (1996) Disorders of Personality: DSM IV and Beyond 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 0-471-01186-X
Millon, Theodore (2000). Personality Disorders in Modern Life. New York: John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 0-471-23734-5
Millon, Theodore. (2004) Masters of the Mind. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons.
Millon, Theodore and Grossman, Seth.(2007) Moderating Severe Personality Disorders: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons.
Millon, Theodore and Grossman, Seth.(2007) Resolving Difficult Clinical Syndromes: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons.
Millon, Theodore and Grossman, Seth.(2007) Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons.
Blaney, Paul H. and Millon, Theodore (Eds). (2008) Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology, 2nd Ed.. New York: Oxford University Press.
Millon, Theodore, Krueger, Robert and Simonsen, Erik (Eds). (2008). Contemporary Directions in Psychopathology: Toward the DSM-V and ICD-11. New York: Guilford Press.
The Millon inventories: a practitioner's guide to personalized clinical assessment. (2008) Guilford Press. ISBN 978-1593856748