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My books focus primarily on personality, psychopathology, psychological assessment, and psychotherapy. Across them, a recurring theme is how different ways of understanding people can be integrated to improve psychological theory, assessment, diagnosis, and clinical practice. I also edit a series for Guilford Press focused on connecting contemporary work on personality and psychopathology with research and clinical practice.

Being Real: Authenticity When It Matters
Christopher J. Hopwood | Guilford Press | In preparation
Authenticity is usually treated as an unquestioned good: know yourself, be yourself, and act accordingly. Being Real takes a more critical look at that idea, distinguishing the feeling of authenticity from the more demanding act of expressing what one actually thinks, feels, or values when doing so carries a social or personal cost. The book asks when being real matters, when it is wise, and what contemporary psychological research gets right and wrong about authenticity.

Personality Functioning and Personality Pathology: Integrating Theory, Assessment, and Treatment
Edited by Amanda A. Uliaszek & Christopher J. Hopwood | Guilford Press | 2026
Personality functioning, the capacity to understand oneself and others and to navigate relationships effectively, has become central to contemporary models of personality disorder. This volume brings together different perspectives on how personality functioning should be conceptualized and measured, how it relates to personality pathology, and how it can inform clinical assessment and treatment.

Dimensional Diagnosis: Practical and Conceptual Issues in the Integration of Personality and Psychopathology
Edited by Christopher J. Hopwood & Carla Sharp | Guilford Press | 2026
Mental health diagnosis is moving away from rigid categories and toward dimensional models, but that transition raises difficult conceptual and practical questions. This volume organizes those questions around core challenges, with leading scholars offering contrasting perspectives in a structured conversation about how personality and psychopathology can be integrated in research, diagnosis, and clinical practice.

The Interpersonal Situation: Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory, Assessment, and Psychotherapy
Aaron L. Pincus & Christopher J. Hopwood | American Psychological Association | 2025
This book presents Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory (CIIT) as a framework for understanding personality, psychopathology, assessment, and psychotherapy. Rather than offering another disorder-specific treatment, it shows how interpersonal principles can help clinicians understand what happens between people and use those patterns to conceptualize clients, therapeutic relationships, and clinical change.

Practitioner’s Guide to the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders
Bo Bach, Christopher J. Hopwood, Erik Simonsen & Robert F. Krueger | Guilford Press | 2025
A practical guide to bringing the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD) into clinical work. The book moves from personality functioning and pathological traits to assessment, feedback, treatment planning, psychotherapy, and evaluation, with an emphasis on translating dimensional personality diagnosis into clinical practice.

The Evolution of Personality Assessment in the 21st Century: Understanding the People Who Understand People
Edited by Christopher J. Hopwood | Routledge | 2022
A history of contemporary personality assessment told through the autobiographical reflections of many of the people who shaped the field. Contributors describe their intellectual development, training, major contributions, changing views, and expectations for the future, providing an unusually personal perspective on how personality assessment evolved over the past several decades.

Personality Assessment Paradigms and Methods: A Collaborative Reassessment of Madeline G.
Edited by Christopher J. Hopwood & Mark H. Waugh | Routledge | 2020
Inspired by Jerry Wiggins’s classic Paradigms of Personality Assessment, this volume asks experts representing different assessment traditions to examine the same person, Madeline G. The result shows how psychodynamic, narrative, interpersonal, multivariate, and empirical approaches can generate different and complementary ways of understanding an individual.

The DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders: Integrating Multiple Paradigms of Personality Assessment
Edited by Christopher J. Hopwood, Abby L. Mulay & Mark H. Waugh | Routledge | 2019
This volume provides a conceptual, empirical, and clinical introduction to the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders. It examines the model through multiple traditions of personality assessment and shows how personality functioning and pathological traits can be integrated into assessment, treatment planning, clinical supervision, forensic work, and research.

Multimethod Clinical Assessment
Edited by Christopher J. Hopwood & Robert F. Bornstein | Guilford Press | 2014
Psychological assessment is strongest when conclusions do not depend on a single questionnaire, interview, test, or observer. This volume provides an evidence-based framework for integrating information across assessment methods, with chapters covering personality, psychopathology, treatment planning, progress monitoring, risk, response distortion, and communication of assessment findings.

Personality Assessment in the DSM-5
Edited by Steven K. Huprich & Christopher J. Hopwood | Routledge | 2013
Published during the transition to DSM-5, this volume captures an important moment in the evolution of personality disorder diagnosis. Contributors examine the emerging emphasis on self and interpersonal functioning, dimensional personality traits, and alternative approaches to conceptualizing and assessing personality pathology.

Clinical Applications of the Personality Assessment Inventory
Edited by Mark A. Blais, Matthew R. Baity & Christopher J. Hopwood | Routledge | 2010
A practical guide to the clinical use of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) across a wide range of settings and populations. Chapters address outpatient and inpatient assessment, substance use, PTSD, forensic and medical settings, cross-cultural applications, personality-focused assessment, and therapeutic assessment, combining empirical research with clinical guidance.

Personality Assessment Inventory Casebook: A Structural Summary Approach
Leslie C. Morey & Christopher J. Hopwood | Psychological Assessment Resources | 2007
A case-based guide to interpreting the Personality Assessment Inventory using the Structural Summary approach. The cases illustrate PAI interpretation across a wide range of clinical problems, with an emphasis on moving beyond individual scale elevations toward an integrated understanding of the person and the clinical decisions that follow from assessment.