Claridge took his first degree in Psychology at
University College, London, in 1953. His PhD work was at the
Institute of Psychiatry, London, jointly supervised by
Hans Eysenck and Neil O’Connor. He qualified under in-service training as a clinical psychologist, and from 1957-61 worked as Eysenck’s Research Assistant, based in the
Royal Victoria Military Hospital, Netley, Southampton. Claridge then moved to
Bristol as Head of
Clinical Psychology at
Barrow Hospital and part-time lecturer in the
Bristol University Department of Psychology. From 1964-74 he ran the
Glasgow University clinical psychology training course as (eventually) Reader in Clinical Psychology. He was awarded a DSc from Glasgow University in 1971. In 1974 Claridge moved to Oxford as
University Lecturer in
Abnormal Psychology at the Department of
Experimental Psychology and Fellow of
Magdalen College. For the first five years of this appointment he ran the
Oxford University clinical psychology training course. He was
Emeritus Professor of
Abnormal Psychology at Oxford University and Emeritus Fellow of
Magdalen College. He was also visiting professor in the Department of Psychology,
Oxford Brookes University. He was a Fellow of the
British Psychological Society, Associate of the
Royal College of Psychiatrists, and a past president of the
International Society for the Study of Individual Differences. Claridge died in Oxford on 3 May 2021, aged 89. == Research ==