Link to the Show / Show NotesDr. John Riolo, "The Insider" interviews Dr. Richard McNally, author of Remembering Trauma published by Belknap Press.
Richard J. McNally received his B.S. in psychology from Wayne State University in 1976, and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1982. He completed his clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Behavior Therapy Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Temple University School of Medicine. In 1984 he was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School where he established the Anxiety Disorders Clinic and directed the university counseling center. He moved to the Department of Psychology at Harvard University in 1991 where he is now Professor and Director of Clinical Training.
He has more than 290 publications, most concerning cognitive aspects of anxiety disorders (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD], panic disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder), including the books Panic Disorder A Critical Analysis (Guilford Press, 1994) and Remembering Trauma (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2003). Recent laboratory studies concern cognitive functioning in adults reporting histories of childhood sexual abuse, including those reporting to having repressed and recovered their memories of trauma. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health.
He served on the American Psychiatric Associationâs DSM-IV PTSD and simple phobia committees, and now serves on the DSV-V fear circuitry and stress-induced disorders workgroup. He is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, winner of the 2005 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology, and on the Institute for Scientific Informationâs âHighly Citedâ list for psychology and psychiatry [top 0.5% of published authors worldwide in terms of citation impact. Visit his webpage.
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