Faculty

Matthew J. Morrison, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of PsychologyDirector, Psychological Services Center

BA, Goddard CollegePh.D., Long Island University – BrooklynPostdoctoral Fellow, NYU Counseling & Wellness Service

matthew.morrison@liu.edu

Description

Dr. Morrison is an award-winning teacher, Associate Professor in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, and Director of the Psychological Services Center.  The Center is the Ph.D. Program’s in-house training clinic.  It serves the student body on the Brooklyn campus, pursuing a three-part mission of education, service, and research.  Dr. Morrison’s focus is clinical teaching and supervision, to which he brings a whole-person, developmental perspective and an integrative theoretical orientation that draws from the psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, and family systems traditions. 

Brooklyn Psychological Services Center Information can be found here

Specialties

Clinical training and supervision, reflective functioning, personality disorders, psychodynamic and integrative psychotherapy, college student mental health, emerging adulthood

Publications

Morrison, M. Trainee Anxiety Inside and Out: A Framework for Raising Awareness of the Many Fears That Undermine Psychotherapy.  Poster Presentation: Association of Psychology Training Clinics Annual Meeting, Nashville TN, March 2025.

Glisker, R., Papouchis, N., Meehan, K., Morrison, M. & Kimhy, D. (2024).  Impact of overall and specific dimensions of schizotypy on theory of mind." Psychopathology, Dec 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000542499

Morrison, M. J. (2015). The Paradox of Internet Groups (book review). Group, 39, 4, 375-377 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13186/group.39.4.0375

Morrison, M. J. (2014). College Student Mental Health Counseling: A Developmental Approach (book review). Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 28,1-3. DOI: 10.1080/87568225.2014.948778

Honors/Awards

David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching, Long Island University

International Psychoanalytic Association, Research Advisory Board grant

Professional Affiliations