

He currently lives in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, with his wife, Marlene, and their dog, Annie. Professor Comer was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania and a graduate student at Clark University. In addition to his abnormal psychology textbooks with Worth Publishers, Professor Comer has also published a number of journal articles in clinical psychology, social psychology, and family medicine. Additionally, he holds an adjunct position as a Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the UMDNJRobert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is also a practicing clinical psychologist and serves as a consultant to the Eden Institute for Persons with Autism and to hospitals and family practice residency programs throughout New Jersey.

His course “ Abnormal Psychology” is one of the university’s most popular, and he has offered it almost every year since his arrival at Princeton.

Professor Comer has received the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at the university. He is also currently the director of the department’s undergraduate program. Ronald Comerhas been a professor at Princeton University Department of Psychology for the past 27 years and has served as Director of Clinical Psychology Studies for most of that time. In addition to a thorough updating, the new edition employs some extraordinary interactive tools to bring students to face to face with the realities of psychological dysfunction, organized for easy access and assignability in LaunchPad, Worth Publishers’ breakthrough online course space.

With its signature integrated coverage of theory, diagnosis, and treatment, and remarkably inclusive cross-cultural perspective, this new edition of Comer’s widely adopted textbook shows students where the study and treatment of psychological disorders stand today.
