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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. (born November 11, 1956) is an American clinical psychologist and writer. She is known best for her work in schizophrenia and assessment. She was also one of the first psychologists to suggest that "psychopathy and criminality are part of a spectrum of schizophrenia related disorders."

Education
She graduated with her Ph.D. from University of Southern California in 1985 with a degree in psychology (clinical). Sarnoff A Mednick https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26866990/ (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26866990/) was her dissertation advisor and later, her colleague. as a research professor at USC. Silverton won the Young Investigator award as a research professor. Her research in development psychopathology especially started a line of research in developmental psychopathology related to genetic, environmental and gene by environment interactions https://www.researchgate.net/publication/19952534_Genetic_Risk_for_Schizophrenia_Birthweight_and_Cerebral_Ventricular_Enlargement (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/19952534_Genetic_Risk_for_Schizophrenia_Birthweight_and_Cerebral_Ventricular_Enlargement)  at a time when genetic factors in risk for schizophrenia was still considered controversial. This was started a line of research in the prospective-High-Risk for Schizophrenia design that predicted psychopathology prospectively.

Career
A clinical professor at UCLA, both in the psychology department and in the medical school, she has authored many psychological tests with Western Psychological services, the US distributer or Rorschach. These tests relate to psychopathology and their assessment including the Malingering Probability Scale. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1073191112451493?journalCode=asmahttps://v-psyche.com/doc/PERSONALITY/Malingering%20Probability%20Scale-2.doc (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1073191112451493?journalCode=asmahttps://v-psyche.com/doc/PERSONALITY/Malingering%20Probability%20Scale-2.doc) And the Adolescent Apperception cards reviewed in Burrows https://buros.org/oscar-k-buros-library-mental-measurement (https://buros.org/oscar-k-buros-library-mental-measurement). She was Southern California Chair of the Society for psychotherapy integration with which she was introduced by her undergraduate research supervisor Perry London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_London) who recommend that she enter the Ph.D. program in clinical psychology.

Personal Life
She also is a democrat and, contributes to democratic causes including the https://lincolnproject.us/bios/rick-wilson/ (https://lincolnproject.us/bios/rick-wilson/) She is feminist and wrote a feminist interpretation of Sunset Blvd which highlighted the double standards for men and women in the entertainment industry https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-11-ca-44690-story.html (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-11-ca-44690-story.html)

Since the mid 2000, Silverton has been involved in consulting in the movie business, writing, with a focus on biography and poetry. Ed Khmara https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0451689/ (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0451689/) said of her poetry "Leigh has a way of touching a chord, a spot that hides inside us and wants to stay hidden; memory and the refusal to remember. To feel her poetry you have to read the lines, then between the lines. There is a sadness there, consolation as well." Leigh also studied movie production at NYU. She interviewed all living associates of the conceptual artist https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=hannahwilke.com&ia=web (https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=hannahwilke.com&ia=web) and registered a treatment of a biopic about Wike. Silverton is also working on a roman a clef. This adult themed work domestic violence and child abuse. It shows, the “resilience of the human spirit”: said one of her followers on Substack. The roman à clef was praised by USC psychologists https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/richard-john/ (https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/richard-john/), https://gero.usc.edu/faculty/gerald-c-davison-ph-d/ (https://gero.usc.edu/faculty/gerald-c-davison-ph-d/) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarnoff_A._Mednick

Personal life. Silverton was the partner of the late Chuck Philips https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-02-06/chuck-philips-remade-music-industry-news-coverage (https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-02-06/chuck-philips-remade-music-industry-news-coverage) , an American Journalist. Silverton and he knew each other most of their lives and became romantically involved since 2012, following his legal separation from ex-wife Jacqueline LaPierre. Silverton. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Leigh+Silverton&oq=l