Helping other healthcare professionals do their best work in mental health.

Supervision

Dr. Maxwell has years of experience supervising psychotherapy casework for mental healthcare trainees in medical center settings. He is available to supervise postdoctoral clinical psychologists, master’s level therapists, and other mental healthcare providers in the greater Kansas City area and beyond. Fees for supervisory services are negotiable according to need (e.g., frequency).

Dr. Maxwell specializes in supervising casework involving complex personality-related pathology.

Training

Dr. Maxwell is preparing didactic and other materials for continuing education workshops, seminars, and more. Please check back at a later date for more information as these materials and opportunities become available. Expect materials about:

Understanding and treating borderline personality disorder
Addressing the heterogeneity of narcissistic psychopathology
Using contemporary psychodynamic principles alongside CBT interventions
Treating borderline personality disorder via teletherapy
And more . . .

Outreach

Dr. Maxwell welcomes opportunities to collaborate with healthcare and other professionals seeking to raise awareness of mental health in their communities. He is available for opportunities to disseminate research-supported interventions, raise mental health awareness, and address mental health stigma in settings of all kinds.

Selected Presentations

Maxwell, R. (2023, February 17). Diagnosis and treatment of narcissistic personality disorder [Workshop presentation]. Mental Health America of the Heartland Continuing Education Program, Kansas City, KS, United States.
Maxwell, R. (2022, July 10). Diagnosis and treatment of borderline personality disorder [Workshop presentation]. Mental Health America of the Heartland Continuing Education Program, Kansas City, KS, United States.
Maxwell, R. (2021, April 23). Diagnosing and treating personality disorders: The latest and greatest findings. [Workshop presentation]. Mental Health America of the Heartland Continuing Education Program, Kansas City, KS, United States.
Maxwell, R. (2021, April 12). Aging and mental health. National Alliance on Mental Illness, KCK Affiliate Meeting, Kansas City, KS, United States.
Maxwell, R. (2020, November 6). Borderline personality disorder during the pandemic: Treatment and other considerations [Conference presentation]. 2020 Greater Kansas City Psychological Association Virtual Fall Conference, Mental Health in the Time of Covid-19, Kansas City, KS, United States.
Maxwell, R. (2020, September 8). Varieties of borderline experience [Keynote address]. KUMC Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences 11th Annual Scholarly Activity and Research Meeting for Faculty and Residents, Kansas City, KS, United States.
Maxwell, R. (2020, August 17). Anxiety management [Workshop presentation]. University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Chronic Care Collaborative Telementoring Series, Kansas City, KS, United States.

Selected Publications

Lynn, S.J., Polizzi, C., Merckelbach, H., Chui-De Chiu, Maxwell, R., van Heughten-van der Klost, D., & Lilienfeld, S.O. (2022). Dissociation and dissociative disorders reconsidered: Beyond sociocognitive and trauma models toward a transtheoretical framework. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 18.
Lynn, S.J., Maxwell, R., Merckelbach, H., Lilienfeld, S.O., van Heughten-van der Klost, D., Miskovic, V. (2019). Dissociation and its disorders: Competing models, future directions, and a way forward. Clinical Psychology Review, 73.
Clarkin, J.F., Maxwell, R., & Sowislo, J. (2019). Comparative psychotherapy research focused on the treatment of borderline personality disorder. In M. Luezinger-Bohlber, & M. Solms (Eds.). Outcome Research and the Future of Psychoanalysis: Clinicians and Researchers in Dialogue. New York: Routledge.
Maxwell, R., Lynn, S.J., & Strauss, G.P. (2018). Trait emotion regulation predicts individual differences in momentary emotions and experience. Imagination, Cognition and Personality: Consciousness in Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236618781775
Maxwell, R., & Lynn, S.J. (2018). Dissociative disorders: Treatment and evaluation. In D. David, S.J. Lynn, & G. Montgomery (Eds.). Evidence-based psychotherapy: The state of the science and practice. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Maxwell, R., Lynn, S.J., & Lilienfeld, S.O. (2017). Failures to imagine: Decreases in mental imagery predict increases in psychopathy and difficulties in emotion regulation. Imagination, Cognition and Personality: Consciousness in Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice, 36, 270-230. doi: 10.1177/0276236616679963.

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