Richard McNally

Professor Richard J. McNally
Born	(1954-04-17) April 17, 1954 Detroit, Michigan
Residence	Massachusetts
Citizenship	United States
Nationality	United States
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	Harvard University;
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Chicago
Known for	Research into anxiety disorders

Richard J. McNally is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and an expert on anxiety disorders. His work has mostly focused on anxiety disorders, but he has also researched the cognitive functioning of adults reporting histories of childhood sexual abuse.

Career

McNally received his B.S. (1976) in Psychology from Wayne State University, and his M.A. (1980) and Ph.D. (1982) in Clinical Psychology from University of Illinois at Chicago. Since then, he completed an internship at the Temple University School of Medicine. McNally became an Assistant Professor, and later an Associate Professor, at The Chicago Medical School, from where he moved to Harvard in 1991.

McNally is Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Doctoral Clinical Psychology Program, Harvard University. He is one of the most cited authors in Psychology and Psychiatry.

McNally has been an associate editor for the journal Behavior Therapy, and has served on the editorial boards of Clinical Psychology Review, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Behaviour Research and Therapy, The Skeptic (UK magazine), and Psychological Science (journal). He also served on the specific phobia and posttraumatic stress disorder committees of the DSM-IV task force, and on the National Institute of Mental Health‘s panel for the assessment of panic disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder.

Honors and awards

Year	Award
1998	Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
2003	Honorable mention for Remembering Trauma, Association of American Publishers, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in Psychology
2004	Who's Who in America
2004	Institute for Scientific Information’s Highly Cited list of published authors in psychology and psychiatry
2005	Distinguished Scientist Award, Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology
2006	Who's Who in the World
2006	Who's Who in Science and Engineering
2009	American Men & Women of Science
2010	Outstanding Mentor Award, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies

Publications

Journal articles

McNally has published articles concerning anxiety disorders and memories of people reporting traumatic experiences.

Books

Panic Disorder: A Critical Analysis. McNally RJ (1994). New York: Guilford Press.

Remembering trauma. McNally RJ (2003). Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press.

What is mental illness?. McNally RJ (2011). Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

External links

• http://mcnallylab.com/index.php