Dr. Richard Mcnally

Biography

Richard J. McNally is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. His primary research focuses on psychopathology, particularly anxiety-related disorders such as panic disorder, specific phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), social anxiety disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). McNally has conducted extensive laboratory studies on information processing biases associated with OCD and social anxiety disorder. He also investigates the cognitive and emotional benefits of physical exercise and performs network analyses related to PTSD, OCD, and depression. He earned his B.S. in psychology from Wayne State University in 1976 and received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1982. Following his doctoral studies, he completed a clinical internship and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Behavior Therapy Unit, Department of Psychiatry at Temple University School of Medicine. In 1984, McNally was appointed as an 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 joined Harvard in 1991 as an Associate Professor and was promoted to Professor in 1995. His research interests include network analyses of psychopathology and cognitive biases in social anxiety disorder and OCD.

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