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Dr. Leedom is a psychiatrist and Professor of Counseling and Psychology at the University of Bridgeport. She did her undergraduate work at the University of Southern California (USC), where she obtained a B.S. in Psychobiology. She graduated from the USC Keck School of Medicine where she was active in research, publishing many papers regarding the psychoneuroendocrinolgy of behavior. She trained in psychiatry at Harbor/UCLA Medical Center where she was Chief Resident helping oversee a Psychiatric Emergency Room that served 4 million people. She was a Fellow in Consultation and Out Patient Psychiatry at Yale/New Haven Hospital and studied neuroscience at Yale for five years where she researched sex steroid effects on the brain and behavior. Dr. Leedom currently studies the impact of personality disorders on parenting and the family.
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If you have questions about UB's Counseling Program, feel free to email her lleedom@bridgeport.edu
Psychiatry Residency, Harbor/UCLA
Psychiatry Fellowship, Yale New Haven Hospital
M.D., University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
B.S. Psychology, University of Southern California
Leedom, L. J. (2014). Human Social Behavioral Systems: Ethological framework for a unified theory. Human Ethology Bulletin, 29.
Swedell, L., Leedom, L., Saunders, J., & Pines, M. (2013). Sexual conflict in a polygynous primate: costs and benefits of a male-imposed mating system. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-013-1641-3
Leedom, L. J., Geislin, E., & Hartoonian Almas, L. (2013). “Did he ever love me?” A qualitative study of life with a psychopathic husband. Family & Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly, 5(2), 103–135.
Leedom, L. J., Bass, A., & Almas, L. H. (2013). The problem of parental psychopathy. Journal of Child Custody, 10(2), 154–184.
Leedom, L. J. (2012). Is psychopathy a disorder or an adaptation? Frontiers in Evolutionary Psychology, 549. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00549
Johnson, S. L., Leedom, L. J., & Muhtadie, L. (2012). The Dominance Behavioral System and Psychopathology: Evidence From Self-Report, Observational, and Biological Studies. Psychological Bulletin, 138(4), 692–743. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027503