Abigail is a host of the Carlat Psychotherapy Podcast. She completed her undergraduate education in Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Montclair State University, and is a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at The Pennsylvania State University. Abigail's research focuses on personality pathology, especially Borderline and Narcissistic personality disorders, and psychotherapy process and outcome, including mechanisms of therapeutic transformation and obstacles that cause treatment resistance. She is passionate about improving clinician understanding of the developmental roots and mechanisms of change underlying psychopathology and advancing the effectiveness and accessibility of interventions for those historically marginalized in treatment research.
Kenneth Levy, PhD. Professor in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program and the Psychology Department at Pennsylvania State University, Director of the Laboratory for Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy Research, adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University, attending psychologist at the Payne Whitney Clinic and Westchester Campus of The New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Personality Disorders Institute (PDI)
Abigail Rasol, research assistant at the Laboratory of Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy Research at Pennsylvania State University, the Treatment and Assessment of Personality Pathology Lab at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and the Laboratory for Dynamic Processes of Psychopathology and Psychotherapy at Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Levy and Ms. Rasol have no financial relationships with companies related to this material.
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