Ph.D., Rutgers
James Langenbucher specializes in diagnosis, nosology, and adult
psychopathology. Since 1989 he has been principal investigator of the Rutgers Research Diagnostic Project (RDP), a
multisited, prospective longitudinal cohort study. He currently holds an Independent Scientist
Award, Neuroadaptive Clinical Models of Drug Dependence, from the
National Institute on Drug Abuse. His research focuses on developing
new, high-performance diagnostic algorithms with firm links to
biological and developmental factors, and testing them through a
multilevel validation strategy before feeding them into the DSM-V and
ICD-11 development processes.
From 1987 to 1995, Dr. Langenbucher was
director of a principal teaching clinic for the clinical psychology
program at Rutgers: the Program for Addictions Consultation and
Treatment (PACT), a collaborative program of Rutgers Center for Alcohol Studies and St. Peter's Medical Center in New Brunswick. He
provides clinical supervision in addictions treatment and general
mental health cases to a variety of Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology and clinical Ph.D. students
and graduates. Board certified in forensic examination, he regularly
conducts assessment of cases in which alcohol and drug abuse are
involved, and has a special interest in the problems of the elderly. He
limits his therapy practice to patients aged 60 and older.
