Benjamin Lahey

{{short description|American psychologist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Benjamin Lahey | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = Benjamin Lahey.png | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name =  | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | pronounce = | residence = | citizenship = | fields = Child psychology<br>Psychiatric epidemiology | workplaces = University of Chicago | patrons = | education = Davidson College (A.B., 1967)<br>University of Tennessee (Ph.D., 1970) | alma_mater = | thesis_title = Effects of Verbal Response Consequences in Fixed-Trial Choice Learning | thesis_url =  | thesis_year = 1970 | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = Paul Frick | notable_students = | known_for = Research on ADHD | influences = | influenced = | awards = Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }} '''Benjamin Bernard Lahey''' is an American psychologist and developmental epidemiologist. He is the Irving B. Harris Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Health Studies and Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago. He has conducted research on psychological problems in children, adolescents, and adults such as ADHD and antisocial behavior, and he was a member of a scientific panel that constructed the current definition of ADHD in the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/21/adhd-diagnosis-kids-hyperactivity/1852083/ |title=ADHD diagnoses in kids increasing |last=Weintraub |first=Karen |date=2013-01-21 |work=USA Today |access-date=2018-07-12 |language=en}}</ref> He was one of the authors of the papers that first hypothesized a hierarchical organization of dimensions of psychological problems, with a general factor at the top of the hierarchy.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Lahey|first1=Benjamin B.|last2=Van Hulle|first2=Carol A.|last3=Singh|first3=Amber L.|last4=Waldman|first4=Irwin D.|last5=Rathouz|first5=Paul J.|date=February 2011|title=Higher-Order Genetic and Environmental Structure of Prevalent Forms of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology|journal=Archives of General Psychiatry|volume=68|issue=2|pages=181–189|doi=10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.192|issn=0003-990X|pmc=3322461|pmid=21300945}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Lahey|first1=Benjamin B.|last2=Applegate|first2=Brooks|last3=Hakes|first3=Jahn K.|last4=Zald|first4=David H.|last5=Hariri|first5=Ahmad R.|last6=Rathouz|first6=Paul J.|date=November 2012|title=Is There a General Factor of Prevalent Psychopathology during Adulthood?|journal=Journal of Abnormal Psychology|volume=121|issue=4|pages=971–977|doi=10.1037/a0028355|issn=0021-843X|pmc=4134439|pmid=22845652}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Lahey|first1=Benjamin B.|last2=Krueger|first2=Robert F.|last3=Rathouz|first3=Paul J.|last4=Waldman|first4=Irwin D.|last5=Zald|first5=David H.|date=February 2017|title=A Hierarchical Causal Taxonomy of Psychopathology across the Life Span|journal=Psychological Bulletin|volume=143|issue=2|pages=142–186|doi=10.1037/bul0000069|issn=0033-2909|pmc=5269437|pmid=28004947}}</ref> He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. He is also a member of both the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology and the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, as well as a former president of both organizations.<ref>He is the author of "Dimensions of Psychological Problems: Replacing DSM Diagnoses with a More Science-Based and Less Stigmatizing Alternative," published in 2021 by Oxford University Press, which calls for sweeping changes in how we think about psychological problems. {{Cite news |url=https://psychiatry.uchicago.edu/directory/benjamin-b-lahey-phd |title=Benjamin B. Lahey, PhD |work=University of Chicago |access-date=2018-07-12 |language=en |archive-date=July 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712183528/https://psychiatry.uchicago.edu/directory/benjamin-b-lahey-phd |url-status=dead }}</ref> Lahey has received the Distinguished Research Award from the Society of Clinical and Adolescent Psychology.

== Work == * Oxford University Press published his 2021 book, "Dimensions of psychological problems: Replacing diagnostic categories with a more science-based and less stigmatizing alternative." {{ISBN|9780197607909}}.

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==External links== *[https://psychiatry.uchicago.edu/directory/benjamin-b-lahey-phd Faculty page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712183528/https://psychiatry.uchicago.edu/directory/benjamin-b-lahey-phd |date=July 12, 2018 }} *{{Google Scholar id|I4jsKh0AAAAJ}} {{Authority control}}

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