Research Group: Emotion and Personality Bio-behavioural Laboratory
The Emotion and Personality Bio-behavioural Laboratory was established at the University of Southampton in July 2011 by Professor Thomas Lynch.The research team focuses on understanding and treating a wide range of psychopathological problems using a “translational” line of inquiry — with a special emphasis on those problems shown to be difficult to treat and/or poorly understand (e.g., refractory depression, anorexia nervosa, personality disorders etc.). Our goal is to combine basic science and bio-behavioural laboratory findings with the most recent technological advances in intervention research, in order to develop and test more effective interventions for those problems associated with high rates of disability and health care costs and which, to date, have not been shown to respond to more traditional interventions. An important output from this work has the been the development of Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (RO-DBT), a new approach for the treatment of disorders of overcontrol. RO-DBT has been informed by over 20 years of clinical and experimental research. Find out more about the treatment and training in RO-DBT.