Marsha Runtz

Marsha Runtz, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology and former Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on the long-term sequelae of interpersonal victimization, including childhood sexual, physical, and psychological abuse and neglect, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence. She has published studies on the psychosocial and health-related outcomes of victimization in the context of mediational variables such as coping, attachment, posttraumatic stress, and health-risk behaviours. Her most recent work explores the measurement of disorganized attachment and its relation to dysfunctional parenting, borderline personality-related behaviours, the complexity of sexual assault trauma, and attraction to sexual power dynamics.