R J McNally

Summary

Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Psychiatric disorder and suicide in the military, then and now: commentary on Frueh and Smith
    Richard J McNally
    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
    J Anxiety Disord 26:776-8. 2012
  2. ncbi Why we should worry about malingering in the VA system: Comment on Jackson et al. (2011)
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    J Trauma Stress 25:454-6. 2012
  3. ncbi Are we winning the war against posttraumatic stress disorder?
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Science 336:872-4. 2012
  4. ncbi Searching for repressed memory
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    Nebr Symp Motiv 58:121-47. 2012
  5. ncbi Reality monitoring in adults reporting repressed, recovered, or continuous memories of childhood sexual abuse
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 114:147-52. 2005
  6. ncbi Revisiting Dohrenwend et al.'s revisit of the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Trauma Stress 20:481-6. 2007
  7. ncbi Dispelling confusion about traumatic dissociative amnesia
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Mayo Clin Proc 82:1083-90. 2007
  8. ncbi Is traumatic amnesia nothing but psychiatric folklore?
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Cogn Behav Ther 33:97-101; discussion 102-4, 109-11. 2004
  9. ncbi Psychophysiological responding during script-driven imagery in people reporting abduction by space aliens
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Psychol Sci 15:493-7. 2004
  10. ncbi Sleep paralysis in adults reporting repressed, recovered, or continuous memories of childhood sexual abuse
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 1230 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Anxiety Disord 19:595-602. 2005

Research Grants

  1. Cognitive Psychology of Traumatic Memory
    Richard McNally; Fiscal Year: 2004

Detail Information

Publications75

  1. ncbi Psychiatric disorder and suicide in the military, then and now: commentary on Frueh and Smith
    Richard J McNally
    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
    J Anxiety Disord 26:776-8. 2012
    ....
  2. ncbi Why we should worry about malingering in the VA system: Comment on Jackson et al. (2011)
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    J Trauma Stress 25:454-6. 2012
    ..The data they adduce, however, in support of this conclusion actually provide reasons for concern as we document in this article. We cite recent work by labor economists in support of our argument...
  3. ncbi Are we winning the war against posttraumatic stress disorder?
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Science 336:872-4. 2012
    ....
  4. ncbi Searching for repressed memory
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    Nebr Symp Motiv 58:121-47. 2012
    ..The memory failed to come to mind for years, partly because the child did not encode it as terrifying (i.e., traumatic), not because the person was unable to recall it...
  5. ncbi Reality monitoring in adults reporting repressed, recovered, or continuous memories of childhood sexual abuse
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 114:147-52. 2005
    ..Relative deficits in the ability to discriminate percepts from images (i.e., low d') were apparent on only some tests. The groups did not differ in their criterion--response bias--for affirming having seen versus imagined stimuli...
  6. ncbi Revisiting Dohrenwend et al.'s revisit of the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Trauma Stress 20:481-6. 2007
    ..That is, the current (late 1980s) prevalence estimates for PTSD are 15.2% (original NVVRS), 9.1% (Dohrenwend et al.), and 5.4% (clinically significant functional impairment). The policy implications of these findings are discussed...
  7. ncbi Dispelling confusion about traumatic dissociative amnesia
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Mayo Clin Proc 82:1083-90. 2007
    ....
  8. ncbi Is traumatic amnesia nothing but psychiatric folklore?
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Cogn Behav Ther 33:97-101; discussion 102-4, 109-11. 2004
    ..The purpose of this article is to dispel confusions rampant in this literature...
  9. ncbi Psychophysiological responding during script-driven imagery in people reporting abduction by space aliens
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Psychol Sci 15:493-7. 2004
    ..05). Therefore, belief that one has been traumatized may generate emotional responses similar to those provoked by recollection of trauma (e.g., combat)...
  10. ncbi Sleep paralysis in adults reporting repressed, recovered, or continuous memories of childhood sexual abuse
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 1230 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Anxiety Disord 19:595-602. 2005
    ..g., saw a ghost). Dissociation and depressive symptoms were more common among those who had experienced sleep paralysis than among those who denied having experienced it...
  11. ncbi Memory and anxiety disorders
    R J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 352:1755-9. 1997
    ..Involving directed forgetting, implicit memory and autobiographical cueing paradigms, these experiments point to a pattern of abnormalities linked to PTSD rather than to trauma per se...
  12. ncbi Forgetting of trauma cues in adults reporting continuous or recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Psychol Sci 16:336-40. 2005
    ..Results were inconsistent with this prediction, as all three groups exhibited better recall of trauma words than neutral words, irrespective of encoding conditions...
  13. ncbi Sleep paralysis, sexual abuse, and space alien abduction
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Transcult Psychiatry 42:113-22. 2005
    ..e. 17% rate of interpreting it as abuse-related). People rely on personally plausible cultural narratives to interpret these otherwise baffling sleep paralysis episodes...
  14. ncbi Betrayal trauma theory: a critical appraisal
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Memory 15:280-94; discussion 295-311. 2007
    ..Finally, a more parsimonious explanation for why some adults may fail to think about their abuse until many years later is provided...
  15. ncbi Mechanisms of exposure therapy: how neuroscience can improve psychological treatments for anxiety disorders
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
    Clin Psychol Rev 27:750-9. 2007
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  16. ncbi Can we solve the mysteries of the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study?
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 1230 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Anxiety Disord 21:192-200. 2007
    ..These three factors likely contribute to the high PTSD prevalence rate in the NVVRS...
  17. ncbi Applying biological data in the forensic and policy arenas
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 1230 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1071:267-76. 2006
    ..To enhance the validity of diagnostic decision making in the forensic and policy arenas, we can use the methods of historians, specifically, consulting archival records to verify trauma histories and supplement biological data...
  18. ncbi Cognitive abnormalities in post-traumatic stress disorder
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 1230 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Trends Cogn Sci 10:271-7. 2006
    ..These attempts to elucidate the mediating mechanisms of PTSD have been both cognitive and, more recently, cognitive-neuroscientific in emphasis...
  19. ncbi Clinical characteristics of adults reporting repressed, recovered, or continuous memories of childhood sexual abuse
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Consult Clin Psychol 74:237-42. 2006
    ..Rates of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder did not differ between the continuous and recovered memory groups...
  20. ncbi Panic and posttraumatic stress disorder: implications for culture, risk, and treatment
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Cogn Behav Ther 37:131-4. 2008
    ..The purpose of this commentary is to elucidate the implications of this research for the broader themes of culture, risk factors, and treatment...
  21. ncbi Does virtual trauma cause posttraumatic stress disorder?
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Am Psychol 63:282-3; discussion 283-5. 2008
  22. ncbi False memory propensity in people reporting recovered memories of past lives
    Cynthia A Meyersburg
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 118:399-404. 2009
    ..The groups did not differ on correct recall, recognition, or intelligence. False memory propensity in the DRM paradigm may tap proneness for developing false memories outside the laboratory...
  23. ncbi Directed forgetting of trauma cues in adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse with and without posttraumatic stress disorder
    R J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University
    J Abnorm Psychol 107:596-601. 1998
    ..These data are inconsistent with the hypothesis that impaired survivors exhibit avoidant encoding and impaired memory for traumatic information...
  24. ncbi EMDR and Mesmerism: a comparative historical analysis
    R J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    J Anxiety Disord 13:225-36. 1999
    ..The purpose of this article is to document the many striking similarities between the history of Mesmerism and the history of EMDR...
  25. ncbi Cognitive processing of trauma cues in adults reporting repressed, recovered, or continuous memories of childhood sexual abuse
    R J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 109:355-9. 2000
    ..Irrespective of group membership, the severity of self-reported posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms was the only significant predictor of trauma-related interference, r(48) = .30, p < .05...
  26. ncbi Personality profiles, dissociation, and absorption in women reporting repressed, recovered, or continuous memories of childhood sexual abuse
    R J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    J Consult Clin Psychol 68:1033-7. 2000
    ....
  27. ncbi On Wakefield's harmful dysfunction analysis of mental disorder
    R J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Behav Res Ther 39:309-14. 2001
    ..Moreover, the dysfunction component itself appears hybrid, comprising both a factual assertion about the state of a mechanism and a normative assertion implying that the mechanism is not functioning as it ought be...
  28. ncbi Directed forgetting of trauma cues in adults reporting repressed or recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse
    R J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 110:151-6. 2001
    ..These groups recalled words they were instructed to remember more often than words they were instructed to forget regardless of whether they were trauma related...
  29. ncbi On the scientific status of cognitive appraisal models of anxiety disorder
    R J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Behav Res Ther 39:513-21. 2001
    ..The purpose of this essay is to provide a reappraisal of these critiques of appraisal, and to defend an argument for methodological pluralism...
  30. ncbi Tertullian's motto and Callahan's method
    R J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Clin Psychol 57:1171-4; discussion 1251-60. 2001
    ....
  31. ncbi The voice of emotional memory: content-filtered speech in panic disorder, social phobia, and major depressive disorder
    R J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
    Behav Res Ther 39:1329-37. 2001
    ..Content-filtered speech appears promising as an on-line probe of emotional processing during accessing of autobiographical memories...
  32. ncbi On nonassociative fear emergence
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Behav Res Ther 40:169-72. 2002
    ....
  33. ncbi Progress and controversy in the study of posttraumatic stress disorder
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Annu Rev Psychol 54:229-52. 2003
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  34. ncbi Risk factors and posttraumatic stress disorder: are they especially predictive following exposure to less severe stressors?
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Depress Anxiety 28:1091-6. 2011
    ..Taken together, these findings imply that people who do satisfy symptomatic criteria for PTSD following exposure to less severe stressors carry a heavy burden of risk factors...
  35. ncbi Disgust has arrived
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Hanard University, Cambridge, 02138 MA, USA
    J Anxiety Disord 16:561-6. 2002
    ..Topics covered include disgust and evolutionary theories of phobia, disgust and cognition, and the relation between disgust and cannibalism, violence, and fine art...
  36. ncbi Debunking myths about trauma and memory
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Can J Psychiatry 50:817-22. 2005
    ..Unfortunately, the evidence they adduce in support of the concept of traumatic dissociative amnesia fails to support their claims. The purpose of this review is to dispel confusions and debunk myths regarding trauma and memory...
  37. ncbi Is panic disorder linked to cognitive avoidance of threatening information?
    R J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    J Anxiety Disord 13:335-48. 1999
    ....
  38. ncbi Autobiographical memory for shame or guilt provoking events: association with psychological symptoms
    Donald J Robinaugh
    Harvard University, USA
    Behav Res Ther 48:646-52. 2010
    ..Furthermore, our results suggest aversive emotional events are associated with psychological distress when memory for those events becomes central to one's identity and autobiographical narrative...
  39. ncbi Repressive coping, emotional adjustment, and cognition in people who have lost loved ones to suicide
    Holly A Parker
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Suicide Life Threat Behav 38:676-87. 2008
    ..These results are based on cross-sectional data, and should be interpreted with caution...
  40. ncbi Missing the forest for the trees? Deficient memory for linguistic gist in obsessive-compulsive disorder
    A R Cabrera
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge 02138, USA
    Psychol Med 31:1089-94. 2001
    ..Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) exhibit recall deficits on word learning tasks, mediated by their failure to detect semantic connections among the words...
  41. ncbi Is premenstrual dysphoria a variant of panic disorder? A review
    Kristin Vickers
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Department of Psychology, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
    Clin Psychol Rev 24:933-56. 2004
    ....
  42. ncbi Ataque de nervios: relationship to anxiety sensitivity and dissociation predisposition
    Devon E Hinton
    Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Depress Anxiety 25:489-95. 2008
    ..46) and the DES (beta=.29). The theoretical and clinical implications of the strong relationship of the ASI to ataque severity are discussed...
  43. ncbi Respiratory symptoms and panic in the National Comorbidity Survey: a test of Klein's suffocation false alarm theory
    Kristin Vickers
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA
    Behav Res Ther 43:1011-8. 2005
    ..These findings, although based on retrospective self-report and thus subject to recall bias, are inconsistent with the hypothesis that respiratory symptoms during panic have diagnostic significance...
  44. ncbi Attention training for reducing spider fear in spider-fearful individuals
    Hannah E Reese
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
    J Anxiety Disord 24:657-62. 2010
    ..Alternatively, attention training may be an unsuitable intervention for spider fear...
  45. ncbi Facial asymmetry detection in patients with body dysmorphic disorder
    Hannah E Reese
    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    Behav Res Ther 48:936-40. 2010
    ..Taken together, our results do not support a heightened perceptual ability or evaluative preference for symmetry among individuals with BDD...
  46. ncbi Selective processing of emotional information in body dysmorphic disorder
    Ulrike Buhlmann
    University of Marburg, Germany
    J Anxiety Disord 16:289-98. 2002
    ..Results suggest that BDD may indeed be related to anxiety disorders such as social phobia...
  47. ncbi Memory distortion in people reporting abduction by aliens
    Susan A Clancy
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 111:455-61. 2002
    ..The groups did not differ in correct recall or recognition. Hypnotic suggestibility, depressive symptoms, and schizotypic features were significant predictors of false recall and false recognition...
  48. ncbi Sleep paralysis among Cambodian refugees: association with PTSD diagnosis and severity
    Devon E Hinton
    Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Depress Anxiety 22:47-51. 2005
    ..SP seems to be a core aspect of the Cambodian refugee's response to trauma. When treating Cambodian refugees, and traumatized refugees in general, clinicians should assess for its presence...
  49. ncbi Gastrointestinal-focused panic attacks among Cambodian refugees: associated psychopathology, flashbacks, and catastrophic cognitions
    Devon E Hinton
    Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 15 Parkman Street, WACC 812 Boston, USA
    J Anxiety Disord 21:42-58. 2007
    ..A mediational analysis indicated that SCL's effect on GIP severity was mediated by GIP-associated flashbacks and catastrophic cognitions...
  50. ncbi Anxiety sensitivity in traumatized Cambodian refugees: a discriminant function and factor analytic investigation
    Devon E Hinton
    Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Behav Res Ther 43:1631-43. 2005
    ..The item clustering within the factor solution of both the ASI and Augmented ASI illustrates the role of cultural syndromes in generating fear of mental and bodily events...
  51. ncbi Health complaints in acknowledged and unacknowledged rape victims
    Lauren M Conoscenti
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 1240 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Anxiety Disord 20:372-9. 2006
    ..Acknowledgment of rape was associated with an even greater increase in the number and intensity of health complaints...
  52. ncbi Anxiety sensitivity among Cambodian refugees with panic disorder: A factor analytic investigation
    Devon E Hinton
    Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 15 Parkman Street, WACC 812, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    J Anxiety Disord 20:281-95. 2006
    ..quot; The item clustering within the factor solution of both the ASI and Augmented ASI illustrates the role of cultural syndromes in generating fear of mental and bodily events...
  53. ncbi Panic disorder and suicide attempt in the National Comorbidity Survey
    Kristin Vickers
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 113:582-91. 2004
    ..PD respondents who had made a suicide attempt were characterized by Comorbidity. Epidemiological respondents with lifetime histories of PD alone are not at heightened risk for self-reported suicide attempt...
  54. ncbi Future directions in the treatment of anxiety disorders: an examination of theory, basic science, public policy, psychotherapy research, clinical training, and practice
    M G Newman
    Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802 3103, USA
    J Clin Psychol 55:1325-45. 1999
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  55. ncbi Psychology. Psychiatric casualties of war
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. rjm@ wjh.harvard.edu
    Science 313:923-4. 2006
  56. ncbi Anxiety sensitivity and panic disorder
    Richard J McNally
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 52:938-46. 2002
    ..Cognitive behavioral treatment reduces anxiety sensitivity in panic patients, perhaps protecting against relapse. Imipramine likewise decreases anxiety sensitivity...
  57. ncbi Cognitive aspects of nonclinical obsessive-compulsive hoarding
    Sara A Luchian
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Behav Res Ther 45:1657-62. 2007
    ..These findings suggest that underinclusiveness and indecisiveness, characteristic of clinical hoarders, are evident in nonclinical hoarders as well...
  58. ncbi Moral reasoning in obsessive-compulsive disorder
    Shana A Franklin
    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
    J Anxiety Disord 23:575-7. 2009
    ..In summary, these data imply a stronger association between moral reasoning patterns and responsibility attitudes than to OCD per se...
  59. ncbi No disgust recognition deficit in obsessive-compulsive disorder
    Holly A Parker
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 35:183-92. 2004
    ..In light of the deficits exhibited by one subject with severe OCD, disgust recognition deficits may be confined to an unidentified subset of people with OCD...
  60. ncbi Exposure to hurricane-related stressors and mental illness after Hurricane Katrina
    Sandro Galea
    Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:1427-34. 2007
    ..Uncertainty exists about the prevalence, severity, and correlates of mental disorders among people exposed to Hurricane Katrina...
  61. ncbi Persistent posttraumatic stress disorder following September 11 in patients with bipolar disorder
    Mark H Pollack
    Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA
    J Clin Psychiatry 67:394-9. 2006
    ....
  62. ncbi The problem of child sexual abuse
    John F Kihlstrom
    Science 309:1182-5; author reply 1182-5. 2005
  63. ncbi Troubles in traumatology
    Richard J McNally
    Can J Psychiatry 50:815-6. 2005
  64. ncbi Panic attacks in schizophrenia
    Renee Goodwin
    Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 43, New York, NY 10032, USA
    Schizophr Res 58:213-20. 2002
    ..To determine the association between panic attacks and comorbid mental disorders, psychiatric symptomotology, service utilization, and suicidality among individuals with schizophrenia in the community...
  65. ncbi Linking thought suppression and recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse
    Elke Geraerts
    Maastricht University, The Netherlands
    Memory 16:22-8. 2008
    ..Our findings may partly explain why people with spontaneous CSA memories have the subjective impression that they have "repressed" their CSA memories for many years...
  66. ncbi Memory consistency for traumatic events in Dutch soldiers deployed to Iraq
    Iris M Engelhard
    Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Memory 16:3-9. 2008
    ..Individuals with higher levels of PTSD symptoms and neuroticism, lower levels of extraversion, and fewer prior missions, were more prone to increased reporting over time...
  67. ncbi Emotion recognition deficits in body dysmorphic disorder
    Ulrike Buhlmann
    Department of Psychiatry, OCD Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
    J Psychiatr Res 38:201-6. 2004
    ..Perceiving others as angry and rejecting might reinforce concerns about one's personal ugliness and social desirability...
  68. ncbi Forgetting unwanted memories: directed forgetting and thought suppression methods
    Elke Geraerts
    Department of Clinical Psychological Science, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
    Acta Psychol (Amst) 127:614-22. 2008
    ....
  69. ncbi Description of risk and resilience factors among military medical personnel before deployment to Iraq
    Shira Maguen
    Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Mil Med 173:1-9. 2008
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  70. ncbi Trauma in childhood
    Richard J McNally
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:1451. 2007
  71. ncbi The expanding empire of posttraumatic stress disorder
    Richard J McNally
    MedGenMed 8:9. 2006
  72. ncbi Acute tryptophan depletion as a model of depressive relapse: behavioural specificity and ethical considerations
    Linda Booij
    Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands
    Br J Psychiatry 187:148-54. 2005
    ..However, some participants still found it a positive experience. CONCLUSIONS: Acute tryptophan depletion is a suitable model of vulnerability to depression, from both a scientific and an ethical perspective...
  73. ncbi Social, psychological, and psychiatric interventions following terrorist attacks: recommendations for practice and research
    Edna B Foa
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street 6th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Neuropsychopharmacology 30:1806-17. 2005
    ..Accordingly, we conclude the paper with several questions designed to guide future research...
  74. ncbi A longitudinal study of "intrusion-based reasoning" and posttraumatic stress disorder after exposure to a train disaster
    Iris M Engelhard
    Department of Medical, Clinical, and Experimental Psychology, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
    Behav Res Ther 40:1415-24. 2002
    ..26, p=0.09) was in the expected direction. The data suggest that IR is involved in the onset and maintenance of PTSD symptoms, but more clarity about causality awaits future larger and experimental studies...
  75. ncbi Deployment-related stress and trauma in Dutch soldiers returning from Iraq. Prospective study
    Iris M Engelhard
    Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, PO Box 80140, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Br J Psychiatry 191:140-5. 2007
    ..Some questionnaire studies have shown increased mental health problems, including probable post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), in soldiers deployed to Iraq...

Research Grants4

  1. Cognitive Psychology of Traumatic Memory
    Richard McNally; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..g., fantasy proneness, imagery ability) that predict performance in these memory tasks is proposed. ..