Steven Huprich

Steven Huprich

Professor of Psychology
Associate Director, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology

Steven Huprich
Contact Info:
Campus: McNichols Campus
Building: Reno Hall
Room: 241
Phone: 313-993-1440
Steven Huprich

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  • Internships/Training, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
  • M.A., University of Dayton
  • B. A., Taylor University

Biography

Steven Huprich is professor of Psychology in the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences. He has also served as associate dean for Graduate Education in the college. Dr. Huprich is the past-editor of the Journal of Personality Assessment and past-president of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders. Dr. Huprich has held faculty appointments at Wichita State University (as director of clinical training), University of Kansas School of Medicine (adjunct professor in psychiatry & behavioral sciences and internal medicine), Eastern Michigan University and Baylor University. He currently is an adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and the Western Michigan University Homer E. Stryker School of Medicine. He was the winner of the 2013 Theodore Millon Award, given by the American Psychological Association and American Psychological Foundation for mid-career excellence in personality research and scholarship.

Huprich has published more than 125 peer-reviewed articles and delivered more than 200 presentations. He is author or editor of six textbooks, including Personality Disorders and Pathology: Integrating Clinical Assessment and Practice in the DSM-5 and ICD-11 Era (2022, published by the American Psychological Association). Huprich's research interests are the classification, assessment and diagnosis of personality disorders and in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches to psychotherapy. His research has focused on depressive, masochistic/self-defeating, narcissistic, borderline and dependent personality disorders and has recently focused on the concept of malignant self-regard as a unifying construct among several of these disorders. He is also interested in how personality can be utilized as an organizing framework for psychopathology, and how personality pathology is related to health care utilization. Huprich also is a licensed psychologist and has been practicing for 20 years. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist, Northville, Mich., where he treats adults in psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy and conducts diagnostic assessments. He joined the University in 2016.

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    Internships / Training

    • Certificate in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, Columbia University, NY
    • Pre-Doctoral Internship, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
    • Advanced training at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
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    Courses Taught at University of Detroit Mercy

    • Assessment II
    • Assessment III
    • Psychology of Death and Dying
    • Psychopathology II
    • Research Seminar
    • Theories of Psychotherapy
    • Psychotherapy Practicum
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    Publications

    Voytenko, V., & Huprich, S. K. (2025, in press).  Treatment-resistant depression and personality disorders: An update on conceptualization, assessment, and evidence-based psychodynamic approaches.  Psychoanalytic Psychology.

    Huprich, S. K., Kuribayashi, J., Voytenko, V. (2024).  Negative affectivity, depression, and personality.  Current Psychiatry Reports. 

    Malone, B. C., Huprich, S. K., Porcerelli, J., & Nicholas, A. E. (in press). Defensive Functioning and malignant self-regard.  Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases. 

    Porcerelli, J. H., Richardson, L. R., & Huprich, S. K. (2024).  The role of object relations in the physician-patient relationship in primary care.  Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 212, 507-512.

    Huprich, S. K., Roelk, B., & Poppe, T. (2024).  Enhancing diabetes management through personality assessment: A pilot study.  Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10880-024-10002-y

    Ellison, W., Huprich, S. K., Behn, A., Levy, K. N., Sharp, C., & Nelson, S. (2023).  Attitudes and experiences of mental health professionals with interests in personality disorders.  Journal of Personality Disorders, 37, 1-15. 

    Malone, B., & Huprich, S. K. (2023).  Malignant self-regard as an overarching framework for the treatment of depressive and masochistic (self-defeating) personalities. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 211, 460-466.

    Pedone, R., Huprich, S., Colle L., Barbarulo, A. M., & Semerari, A. (2023).  Exploring guilt differences in grandiose narcissism, vulnerable narcissism, and malignant self-regard.  Journal of Personality Disorders, 37, 284-302.

    Blanchard, M., Huprich, S., Porcerelli, J., Haggerty, G., & Seifert, C. (2022). Adult attachment and interpersonal dependency:  Assessing the impact of Relationship Profile Test scores, self-identified ethnicity, and gender on attachment style. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 210, 838-849.

    Blanchard, M., Pad, R., Groh, C., & Huprich, S. K. (2022).  Measures of personality pathology, levels of functioning, and physical health in an urban primary care sample. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 29, 875-885. 

    Huprich, S. K. & Malone, B. (2022).  Malignant self-regard:  Overview and future directions.  Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 30, 226-237. 

    Pad, R., Okut, H., Zackula, R., & Huprich, S. K. (2022).  Attachment patterns and their relationship to levels of personality functioning and pathological traits. Personality and Mental Health, 16, 163-179. 

    Adams, B. E., Porcerelli, J. H., Abell, S., & Huprich, S. K. (2021).  Malevolent object relations:  A multi-method study of female survivors of childhood abuse.  Personality and Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1512 

    Malone, B. & Huprich, S. K. (2021).  Critical differences in the treatment of depressive symptoms in narcissistic and depressive personalities.  Invited manuscript for Medical Research Archives: Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, 9 (4).  https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v9i4.2355.

    Mariotti, E. C., Waugh, M. H., McClain, C. M., Beevers, L. G., Clemence, A. J., Lewis, K., Miller, R., Mulay, A., Ridenour, J., Huprich, S., Lenger, K., Pitman, S., & Meehan, K. (2021).  Assessing self-definition and relatedness in level of personality functioning.  Journal of Personality Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2021_35_516

    Nazari, A., Huprich, S. K., Hammati, A., & Rezaei, F. (2021).  The construct validity of the ICD-11 severity of personality dysfunction under scrutiny of object-relations theory.  Frontiers in Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.648427

    Ronningstam, E., Simonsen, E., Chanen, A., Herpertz, S. C., Huprich, S., Newton-Howes, G., Behn, A., Doering, S. Zanarini, M. C., Sharp, C., & Oldham (2021).  ISSPD:  Past, Present, Future.  Journal of Personality Disorders, 35, 1-18.

    Cain, N., Huprich, S. K., Blanchard, M., Jowers, C. (2021).  Interpersonal profiles for grandiose and vulnerable narcissism and differential relationships to depression, self-esteem, anger, malignant self-regard, and depressive personality.  Psychopathology. DOI: 10.1159/00051047 

    Huprich, S. K. (2020).  Personality disorders in the ICD-11:  Opportunities and Challenges for advancing the diagnosis of personality pathology.  Current Psychiatry Reports, 22, 40. 

    Huprich, S. K. (2020).  Commentary:  Critical distinctions between vulnerable narcissism and depressive personalities.  Journal of Personality Disorders, 34 (Supplement), 207-209. 

    Siefert, C. J., Sexton, J., Meehan, K., Nelson, S., Haggerty, G., Dauphin, B., & Huprich, S. (2020).  Development of a short-form for the DSM-5 Levels of Personality Functioning Questionnaire.  Journal of Personality Assessment, 101, 516-526.

    Meehan, K. B., Sexton, J., Siefert, C., & 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, 367-373.

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    Books and Book Chapters

    Huprich, S. K., Editor (2022).  Personality Disorders and Pathology: Integrating Clinical Assessment and Treatment in the DSM-5 and ICD-11 Era.  Washington, D.C.:  American Psychological Association.

    Huprich, S. K., Editor.  (2015). Personality Disorders:  Moving Toward Theoretical and Empirical Integration in Assessment and Diagnosis.  Washington, D.C.:  American Psychological Association. 

    Huprich, S. K., & Hopwood, C. J., Editors. (2013). Personality Assessment in DSM-5.  New York:  Taylor & Francis.

    Huprich, S. K. (2009).  Psychodynamic Therapy:  Conceptual and Empirical Foundations.  New York:  Taylor and Francis.

    Huprich, S. K., Editor. (2008). Narcissistic Patients and New Therapists: Conceptualization, Treatment, and Managing Countertransference.  Jason Arson/ Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

    Richard, D. C. S., & Huprich, S. K., Editors. (2008). Clinical Psychology:  Assessment, Treatment, and Professional Issues.  New York:  Academic Press / Elsevier. 

    Huprich, S. K., Editor. (2006). Rorschach Assessment of the Personality Disorders.  Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates / Taylor and Francis.  Translated into Korean in 2010.

    Huprich, S. K. & Malone, B. C. (2025, in press).  Malignant self-regard.  Invited chapter in B. Bach (Ed.), Personality Disorders:  Assessment and Treatment. Oxford University Press.

    Huprich, S. K. & Sheriff, A. (2025, in press).  Personality disorder severity.  Invited chapter in B. Bach (Ed.), Personality Disorders:  Assessment and Treatment.  Oxford University Press.

    Huprich, S. K. (2022).  Introduction:  Changing landscape.  In S. K. Huprich (Ed.),  Personality Disorders and Pathology: Integrating Clinical Assessment and Treatment in the DSM-5 and ICD-11 Era.  Washington, D.C.:  American Psychological Association. 

    Huprich, S. K. (2022).  Principles of treating personality pathology.  In S. K. Huprich (Ed.),  Personality Disorders and Pathology: Integrating Clinical Assessment and Treatment in the DSM-5 and ICD-11 Era.  Washington, D.C.:  American Psychological Association. 

    Voytenko, V., & Huprich, S. K. (2022).  Managing treatment-resistant depression with comorbid personality disorders.  In de Quevedo, J., Riva-Posse, P., & Bobo, W. V. (Eds.), Managing Treatment Resistant Depression.  London:  Elsevier

    Fertuck, E. A., Duggal, D., & Huprich, S. K. (2022). The domain of social dysfunction in complex depressive disorders.  In A. L. Behn (Ed.) Depression and Personality Dysfunction:  An Integrative Functional Domains Perspective.

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    Presentations and Conferences

    Nicholas, A. E., & Huprich, S. K. (2024, March). How narcissistic perfectionism moderates the relationship between subjective failure, grit, and self-handicapping.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment.  San Diego, CA.

    Porcerelli, J. H., Richardson, L. R., & Huprich, S. K. (2024, March).  The role of object relations in the physician-patient relationship in primary care.  Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Society for Personality Assessment.  San Diego, CA.

    Huprich, S. K., Beauchamp, L., Achtyes, E., & Sanders, W. (2023, May).  A pilot study of the relationship between personality pathology and TMS outcomes.  Poster presentation at the spring meeting of the Michigan Psychiatric Society, Grand Rapids, MI.

    Jowers, C., Blanchard, M., Porcerelli, J., Huprich, S. K., Morris, P., Murdock, W., King, E., Kazanowski, D., & Lozano, I. (2023, March).  Does defensive functioning and coping predict pathological traits and distress during the COVID-19 pandemic? A multimethod study.  Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Austin, TX. 

    Kuribayashi, J., & Huprich, S. K. (2023, March).  Exploration of personality pathology in major depressive disorder using three different methods of personality disorder diagnosis.  Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment.  Austin, TX. 

    Malone, B. C., Riffenberg, C., Huprich, S. K., & Nicholas, A. (2023, March).  Do object-representations predict political extremism?  Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment.  Austin, TX. 

    Sheriff, A., Malone, B. C., Nicholas, A. E., & Huprich, S. K. (2023, March). Assessing ICD-11 personality functioning severity using TAT narratives.  Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Austin, TX.

    Huprich, S. K. (2022, October).  Treatment guidelines for malignant self-regard.  Symposium presentation on Recent Advances in the Treatment of Narcissism. (I. Weinberg, Chair).  European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, virtual meeting.

    Huprich, S. K. (2022, October). A personality-based framework for treatment-resistant depression:  Malignant self-regard.  Symposium presentation on Treatment Resistant Depression and Personality Disorders. (V. Voytenko & S. Huprich, Chairs).  European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, virtual meeting.

    Bemis-Keir, E. K., Wilde, K. A., Huprich, S. K., & Porcerelli, J. H. (2022, March).  The development of a self-report version of the SCORS-G:  A pilot study.  Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL. 

    Jowers, C. E., Blanchard, M. P., Huprich, S. K., & Porcerelli, J. H. (2022, March).  Do relatedness and flourishing predict doctor-patient relationships and health care utilization?  Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL.

    Blanchard, M. P., Jowers, C. E., Porcerelli, J. H., & Huprich, S. K. (2022, March).  A multi-method approach to rating narratives:  Could respondent ratings be useful?  Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL. 

    Huprich, S. K. (2022, March).  Discussant for symposium, Multi-Method Assessment and Integration Data, to be presented at the Annual Convention for the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL.

    Malone, B. C., Nicholas, A. E., & Huprich, S. K. (2022, March).  A construct validation of malignant self-regard and a bridge to its neurobiological substrates.  Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL.

    Malone, B. C., Nicholas, A. E., & Huprich, S. K. (2022, March).  Exploring the relationship between personality pathology and political extremism: Issues with empathy and stress regulation.  ​Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL.

    Nicholas, A. E, Malone, B. C., & Huprich, S. K. (2022, March).  The impact of grit on perfectionism and self-handicapping.  Poster to be presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL. 

    Huprich, S. K. (2022, February).  Malignant self-regard:  Conceptual, empirical, and clinical applications. Webinar presented virtually at the University of Florence, sponsored through Tages Charity, Florence, Italy.

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    Grants

    "Evaluating the Clinical Utility of Three Methods of Personality Disorder Diagnosis," funded by the American and International Psychoanalytic Associations (2011-2013). This study compared three methods by which to assess and diagnose personality disorders.

    "Negative Affect, Impulsivity, Emotional Dysregulation, and Object Relations: Evaluating the Differential Relationship of Four Etiological Factors in the Prediction of Borderline Personality Disorder," funded by the American and International Psychoanalytic Associations (2008-2011). This study compared how traits and object relations interactively predict borderline personality disorder symptoms.

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    Organizations / Affiliations / Awards

    • Editor, Journal of Personality Assessment (2013-2018)
    • President, International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (2018-2020)
    • President-Elect, International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (2018-2020)
    • Secretary/Treasurer, International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (2013-2017)
    • Associate Editor, Journal of Personality Disorders (2009-2016)
    • Recipient of the Theodore Millon Award – 2013, American Psychological Foundation and Division 12 of the American Psychological Association (2013).
    • Recipient of the Martin Mayman Award – 2008, Society for Personality Assessment.
    • Fellow, American Psychological Association, Society for Personality Assessment.

    • Board Certified in Clinical Psychology (2024)