Sara Masland, PhD

Sara Rose Masland is a licensed clinical psychologist and associate professor of psychological science at Pomona College in Claremont, CA. She completed her doctoral work at Harvard University and her post-doctoral fellowship at McLean Hospital. She previously served as a board member for EmotionsMatter.org. She is currently a trainer in Good Psychiatric Management (GPM) for BPD and co-chairs a multinational research committee dedicated to studying and improving GPM. More broadly, she studies treatment improvement and accessibility for people with personality disorders, including the ways that stigma may create barriers to care. She also studies social cognition, identity, and emotion processes in personality disorders, particularly BPD and NPD. In an additional line of research, Dr. Masland studies psychosocial predictors of clinical outcomes, including the perception of criticism in close relationships.