Despite his humble beginnings as the son of Polish immigrants struggling to survive during the Depression, Dr. Millon excelled in his collegiate studies of psychology and anthropology. After completing his dissertation in 1953, Dr. Millon began his teaching career at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. It was during his first year in this position that he began his own evolution from merely teaching psychology to patient advocacy, revolutionizing the assessment treatment continuum, and development of the personality test that would eventually become today’s MCMI-IV.  He was rewarded for his hardwork with a much deeper understanding of the patients housed in the chronic wards, and has credited his time there during “unconventional visiting hours” with a good portion of his inspiration for writing Modern Psychopathology (MP) and developing diagnostic tools such as the MCMI®, the original iteration of the MCMI-IV.  During the development of the MCMI-IV, Dr. Millon shared his ideas on the importance of “understanding theory and assessment and how they coordinate together to give us the central core of the emergence of the field of personality disorders.”

Dr. Grossman is a licensed psychologist in the state of Florida. He is the founder and clinical director of the Center for Psychological Fitness in the Fort Lauderdale region, as well as a member of the clinical faculty at the Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. For nearly two decades, Dr. Grossman worked under the leadership of the world-renowned personality theorist, Dr. Theodore Millon, co-authoring several books, scientific articles, and personality tests with him. Dr. Grossman has also been a guest lecturer on personality and clinical assessment at universities and professional settings nationally and internationally.