I'm at NASSPD 2026 in Toronto this Friday (April 24) with two talks. Session O1 at 10:45am is on distress tolerance change during partial hospital treatment. Session O3 at 3:25pm is on AMPD coverage of borderline personality disorder. Come say hello if you're there 👋
My paper "Powering the Circumplex" was just accepted at Assessment! 🎉 It's a practical guide to sample size planning for the Structural Summary Method with an R package (github.com/kimberlyjg/s...) & web calculator (kjgilbert01.shinyapps.io/shiny/). Data & code: osf.io/63wyf
Decision: Accept without revision. The reviewers note that the sample is small, but the outcomes are difficult to attribute to chance.
When should you validate and when should you interpret with a borderline patient? CIIT offers a framework for timing evidence-based psychodynamic interventions in real time. Includes a full session walkthrough. kimberlyjgilbert.substack.com/p/where-inte...
“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” - Groucho Marx
You don’t have to be psychodynamic to care about better diagnosis. My new post asks why DSM-6 is chasing solutions the PDM-3 has already worked out: capacities over symptoms, severity over labels, and formulations that actually help treatment. kimberlyjgilbert.substack.com/p/designing-...
I don't think I have, actually! I'll definitely have to check that one out.
Yeah, that's my go-to because it's the sweetest. I don't know who "Granny Smith" is, but I'm not a huge fan of her apples.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Fuji.
They argue that PF can't both capture what PDs share and distinguish PD from other disorders, but that only holds if PF is a statistical summary. If it's a developmental capacity, being specific in origin and broad in consequence isn't a contradiction. That's how development works.
This was a great read. One disanalogy: classifying an animal doesn't change the animal, but diagnosing a person reshapes their property profile — self-concept, behavior, social role, treatment all shift. The atlas is reactive: superimposing structure changes the landscape you're mapping.
Antagonism is a coherent factor between persons. Within persons it splits: hostile aggression on one side, entitlement fused with insecurity on the other. Why? I think the divergence tells us something specific about timescale and process. New post: kimberlyjgilbert.substack.com/p/the-conver...
For everyone navigating BPD who has ever felt both rescued and trapped by a diagnosis. The science of classification is changing. The voices of lived experience should be shaping how. On what we gain and lose as psychiatry moves toward dimensions.
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New paper accepted in Personality and Mental Health on rethinking stigmatizing trait language and centering patient perspectives 📣
Gilbert, K. J. (in press). Nothing about us without us: Centering lived experience as the AMPD moves forward. Personality and Mental Health. osf.io/459z2/
The Future DSM committee wants more dimensions, more biology, more cultural sensitivity. All good. But none of it addresses how mental health problems actually unfold, person by person, day by day.
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‼️ Just out in Psychological Assessment! Check out our new paper exploring the hierarchical structure of the HiTOP-SR scales and their associations with daily life experiences.
dx.doi.org/10.1037/pas0...
A lot of arguments about “personality functioning” are actually arguments about three different things:
• a developmental construct
• the DSM-5 LPF
• the questionnaires used to measure it
The field keeps using the same phrase for all three.
New post: kimberlyjgilbert.substack.com/p/the-constr...
A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.
These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats
I largely agree, but my question is more about verifying the LLM output. If you know stats well, you can probably identify when certain outputs that don't quite look right, but there are some sneaky things that LLMs do where the code silently fails, and knowing coding would be helpful there.
Energy was the most predictable affective state here and negative affect was the hardest. If passive sensing is better at tracking energy and activation than valence, maybe the path to clinical utility runs through fatigue monitoring rather than mood tracking 🤔
Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research.
#PsychSciSky 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Thank you! Congrats on the internship match and I’m proud of both of us 😊
Do I sense a demonstration paper in the making?
Thank you for the kind birthday messages 🎂 I'm finally starting to understand the uncontrollable urge to complain about back problems.
This is great. The hardest version of this problem isn't choosing between process and product. It's that you often can't tell which one you're looking at until after you've skipped it. Sitting with messy data feels like a bottleneck, but it might be where your understanding quietly takes shape.
Clinical psychology depends on scientific evidence, but research from @chopwood.bsky.social et al. suggests that the kinds of data most commonly produced may not always align with what clinicians find most useful in practice. Read the article in American Psychologist: doi.org/10.1037/amp0...
Joe Trader is the voice of a nation, Aidan. He knows what the people want.
www.traderjoes.com/home/product...
Your salsa model may lack ecological validity once beans are introduced.
The trope “I’m an introverted extravert” is a great illustration of a) the inherently contextual nature of personality and b) limits of even our best trait models.