Steven Huprich, Ph.D., LP
University of Detroit Mercy
Dr. Steven Huprich is the associate dean for graduate education in the College of Liberal Arts & Education, and is a professor of psychology at University of Detroit Mercy. His academic experience includes faculty appointments at Wichita State University, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Eastern Michigan University, and Baylor University. In addition to his current duties as dean at University of Detroit Mercy, Dr. Huprich is also an adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine.
Dr. Huprich is a past editor of the Journal of Personality Assessment and a past president of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders. 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.
Dr. Huprich has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and delivered more than 200 presentations. In addition, he is the author or editor of six textbooks, including Personality Disorders: Toward Theoretical and Empirical Integration in Assessment and Diagnosis (2015, published by the American Psychological Association).
Dr. 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.
Dr. Huprich is also a licensed clinical psychologist. He treats adults in psychoanalytically-informed psychotherapy and conducts diagnostic assessments.
