Recent Publications

For a complete listing of Richard McNally's publications, see his CV

2010 and in press

McNally, R. J. (in press). Searching for repressed memory. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 58.

McNally, R. J. (in press). [Review of the book The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood]. American Anthropologist.

McNally, R. J. (in press). Fear, anxiety, and their disorders. In J. Plamper & B. Lazier (Eds.), Fear: Across the disciplines. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Reese, H. E., McNally, R. J., Najmi, S., & Amir, N. (in press). Attention training for reducing spider fear in spider-fearful individuals. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. PDF

Reese, H. E., McNally, R. J., & Wilhelm, S. (in press). Facial asymmetry detection in patients with body dysmorphic disorder.Behaviour Research and Therapy.

McNally, R. J. (2010). Can we salvage the concept of trauma in DSM-V? The Psychologist, 23, 386-389.

McNally, R. J. (2010). Recovered memories. In I. B. Weiner & W. E. Craighead (Eds.), The Corsini encyclopedia of psychology (4th ed.) (pp. 1438-1440). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

McNally, R. J., Malcarne, V. L., Najmi, S., Hansdottir, I., Reese, H. E., & Merz, E. L. (2010). Vulnerability to anxiety disorders across the lifespan. In R. E. Ingram & J. M. Price (Eds.), Vulnerability to psychopathology: Risk across the lifespan (2nd Ed.)(pp. 357-360). New York: Guilford.

Reese, H. E., Najmi, S., & McNally, R. J. (2010). Vulnerability for anxiety disorders in adulthood. In R. E. Ingram & J. M. Price (Eds.), Vulnerability to psychopathology: Risk across the lifespan (2nd Ed.)(pp. 334-356). New York: Guilford.

Robinaugh, D. J., & McNally, R. J. (2010). Autobiographical memory for shame or guilt events: Association with psychological symptoms. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 48, 646-652. PDF

2009

McNally, R. J., & Reese, H. E. (2009). Information-processing approaches to understanding anxiety disorders. In M. M. Antony & M. B. Stein (Eds.), Oxford handbook of anxiety and anxiety disorders (pp. 136-152). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Huppert, J. D., Foa, E. B., McNally, R. J., & Cahill, S. P. (2009). Role of cognition in stress and fear-circuitry disorders. In G. Andrews, D. S. Charney, P. J. Sirovatka, & D. A. Regier (Eds.), Stress-induced and fear circuitry disorders: Advancing the research agenda for DSM-V (pp. 175-193). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association.

McNally, R. J. (2009). Posttraumatic stress disorder. In P. H. Blaney & T. Millon (Eds.), Oxford textbook of psychopathology (pp. 176-197). (2nd ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

McNally, R. J., & Geraerts, E. (2009). A new solution to the recovered memory debate. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 126-134. PDF

Franklin, S. A., McNally, R. J., & Riemann, B. C. (2009). Moral reasoning in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23, 575-577. PDF

McNally, R. J. (2009). Can we fix PTSD in DSM-V? Depression and Anxiety, 26, 597-600.

McNally, R. J. (2009). Anxiety. In D. Sander & K. Scherer Eds.), The Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences (pp. 42-44). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

McNally, R. J. (2009). Panic disorder. In D. Sander & K. Scherer (Eds.), The Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences (pp. 298-300). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

McNally, R. J. (2009). Posttraumatic stress disorder. In D. Sander & K. Scherer (Eds.), The Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences (pp. 310-312). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

McNally, R. J. (2009). Posttraumatic stress disorder. In B. J. Sadock, V. A. Sadock, & P. Ruiz (Eds.), Kaplan and Sadock's comprehensive textbook of psychiatry (9th ed), (pp. 2650-2660). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins.

Meyersburg, C. A., Bogdan, R., Gallo, D. A., & McNally, R. J. (2009). False memory propensity in people reporting recovered memories of past lives. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118, 399-404. PDF

Paradis, C., Friedman, S., Hinton, D. E., McNally, R. J., Solomon, L. Z., & Lyons, K. A. (2009). The assessment of the phenomenology of sleep paralysis: The Unusual Sleep Experiences Questionnaire (USEQ). CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics, 15, 220-226.

Geraerts, E., & McNally, R. J. (2009). Recollective accuracy of traumatic memories. In A. Jamieson & A. Moenssens (Editors), Wiley Encyclopedia of forensic science (pp. 2243-2250). Chichester, UK: Wiley.

2008

McNally, R. J. (2008). [Review of the book After daybreak: The liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 1945]. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 26, 193-195.

Engelhard, I. M., van den Hout, M. A., & McNally, R. J. (2008). Memory consistency for traumatic events in Dutch soldiers deployed to Iraq. Memory, 16, 3-9. PDF

Maguen, S., Turcotte, D. M., Peterson, A. L., Dremsa, T. L., Garb, H. N., McNally, R. J., & Litz, B. T. (2008). Description of risk and resilience factors among military medical personnel before deployment to Iraq. Military Medicine, 173, 1-9. PDF

Geraerts, E., & McNally, R. J. (2008). Forgetting unwanted memories: Directed forgetting and thought suppression methods. Acta Psychologica, 127, 614-622.

McNally, R. J. (2008). Panic and posttraumatic stress disorder: Implications for culture, risk, and treatment. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 37, 131-134.

McNally, R. J. (2008). [Review of the book Handbook of PTSD: Science and practice]. Psychological Medicine, 38, 765-766. Publications (continued)

McNally, R. J. (2008). [Review of the book The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease]. Psychiatric Times, 25(6), 51.

McNally, R. J. (2008). [Review of the book Encounters with the invisible: Unseen illness, controversy, and chronic fatigue syndrome]. Psychiatric Services, 59, 1224.

McNally, R. J., & Breslau, N. (2008). Does virtual trauma cause posttraumatic stress disorder? American Psychologist, 63, 282-283.

Geraerts, E., & McNally, R. J. (2008). Assessment of recovered and false memories. In R. Rogers (Ed.), Clinical assessment of malingering and deception (3rd ed.) (pp. 274-284). New York: Guilford.

McNally, R. J. (2008). Information processing. In G. Reyes, J. D. Elhai, & J. D. Ford (Eds.), The encyclopedia of psychological trauma (pp. 353-356). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Hinton, D. E., Chong, R., Pollack, M. H., Barlow, D. H., & McNally, R. J. (2008). Ataque de nervios: Relationship to anxiety sensitivity and dissociation predisposition. Depression and Anxiety, 25, 489-495.

2007

McNally, R. J. (2007). PTSD and Vietnam veterans. Science, 315, 185-186. [Letter]

Hinton, D. E., Chhean, D., Fama, J. M., Pollack, M. H., & McNally, R. J. (2007). Gastrointestinal-focused panic attacks among Cambodian refugees: Associated psychopathology, flashbacks, and catastrophic cognitions. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 21, 42-58.

McNally, R. J. (2007). Recalculating war's psychic cost. Mind Matters: The Scientific American Blog Seminar on Mind and Brain. http://tinyurl.com/2196cu

McNally, R. J. (2007). Can we solve the mysteries of the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study? Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 21, 192-200.

McNally, R. J. (2007). Reply to Kilpatrick's "Correcting the Record About the Role of Science and Controversy in Public Policy." StressPoints, 21(1), 2-3.

McNally, R. J. (2007). Betrayal trauma theory: A critical appraisal. Memory, 15, 280-294.

McLean, C. P., Miller, N. A., Lilienfeld, S. O., Lohr, J. M., McNally, R. J., & Stickle, T. R. (2007). Teaching students to think like scientists. The Behavior Therapist, 30, 84-87.

McNally, R. J. (2007). Reactie op "Een cursus in pseudowetenschap" [Response to "A lesson in pseudoscience]. De Psycholoog, 42, 217. [Letter]

Luchian, S. A., McNally, R. J., & Hooley, J. M. (2007). Cognitive aspects of nonclinical obsessive-compulsive hoarding. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 1657-1662. PDF

McNally, R. J. (2007, June 11). Kids today. Wall Street Journal, p. A12 [Op-Ed essay]

McNally, R. J. (2007). Mechanisms of exposure therapy: How neuroscience can help improve psychological treatment for anxiety disorders. Clinical Psychology Review, 27, 750-759.

McNally, R. J. (2007). Psicopatologˇa del asco [The psychopathology of disgust.] In J. V. Ruiloba, L. S. Planell, C. D. Quevedo, & J. M. M. Magri¤  & J. Vallego (Eds.), Temas y retos en la psicopatologˇa actual (pp. 147-155). Barcelona, Spain: Ars Medica.

Engelhard, I. M., van den Hout, M. A., Weerts, J., Arntz, A., Hox, J. J. C. M., & McNally, R. J. (2007). Deployment-related stress and trauma in Dutch soldiers returning from Iraq: Prospective study. British Journal of Psychiatry, 191, 140-145.

McNally, R. J. (2007). Revisiting Dohrenwend et al.'s revisit of the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 20, 481-486.

McNally, R. J. (2007). Dispelling confusion about traumatic dissociative amnesia. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 82, 1083-1087.

McNally, R. J. (2007). The life and work of the most eminent woman in 20th century psychology. [Review of the book Do justice and let the sky fall: Elizabeth F. Loftus and her contributions to science, law, and academic freedom]. PsycCRITIQUES - Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52(19). DOI: 10.1037/a0007764.

McNally, R. J. (2007). A historian debunks Satanic ritual abuse. [Review of the book Evil incarnate: Rumors of demonic conspiracy and Satanic abuse in history]. PsycCRITIQUES - Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52(23). DOI: 10.137/a0007759.

McNally, R. J. (2007). The enduring relevance of Wachtel's "Investigation and its Discontents." Applied and Preventive Psychology, 12, 31-32.

McNally, R. J. (2007). Do certain readings of Freud constitute "pathological science"? A comment on Boag (2006). Review of General Psychology, 11, 359-360.

McNally, R. J. (2007). Trauma in childhood. Archives of General Psychiatry, 64, 1451. [Letter].

Galea, S., Brewin, C. R., Gruber, M., Jones, R. T., King, D. W., King, L. A., McNally, R. J., Ursano, R. J., Petukhova, M., & Kessler, R. C. (2007). Exposure to hurricane-related stressors and mental illness after Hurricane Katrina. Archives of General Psychiatry, 64, 1427-1434.

Benoit, K. E., McNally, R. J., Rapee, R. M., Gamble, A. L., & Wiseman, A. L. (2007). Processing of emotional faces in children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. Behaviour Change, 24, 183-194.

McNally, R. J. (2007). Psychological debriefing and its alternatives. In S. Bege‡ (Ed.), The integration and management of traumatized people after terrorist attacks (pp. 119-131). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press.

2006

McNally, R. J. (2006). Emotional processing theory and the recollection of forgotten trauma. In B. O. Rothbaum (Ed.), Pathological anxiety: Emotional processing in etiology and treatment, (pp. 78-88). New York: Guilford Press.

Hinton, D. E., Pich, V., Safren, S. A., Pollack, M. H., & McNally, R. J. (2006). Anxiety sensitivity among Cambodian refugees with panic disorder: A factor analytic investigation. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 20, 281-295.

Conoscenti, L. M., & McNally, R. J. (2006). Health complaints in acknowledged and unacknowledged rape victims. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 20, 372-379.

McNally, R. J. (2006). [Review of the book Panic diaries: A genealogy of panic disorder]. London Times Literary Supplement, March 24, No. 5373, 38.

McNally, R. J. (2006). The expanding empire of posttraumatic stress disorder. Medscape General Medicine, 8(2), 9. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/528984

McNally, R. J., & Clancy, S. A. (2006). Sleep paralysis and recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse: A reply to Pendergrast. Journal of Anxiety Disorders 20, 538-540.

McNally, R. J., Perlman, C. A., Ristuccia, C. S., & Clancy, S. A. (2006). Clinical characteristics of adults reporting repressed, recovered, or continuous memories of childhood sexual abuse. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74, 237-242.

McNally, R. J. (2006). Panic diaries [Reply to J. Orr]. London Times Literary Supplement, May 19,, No. 5381, 17. [Letter]

McNally, R. J., Clancy, S. A., Barrett, H. M., Parker, H. A., Ristuccia, C. S., & Perlman, C. A. (2006). Autobiographical memory specificity in adults reporting repressed, recovered, or continuous memories of childhood sexual abuse. Cognition and Emotion, 20, 527-535.

McNally, R. J. (2006). Reply: Troubles in traumatology, and Debunking Myths About Trauma and Memory. Canadian Journal of ychiatry, 51, 402-403. [Letter]

Pollack, M. H., Simon, N. M., Fagiolini, A., Pitman, R., McNally, R. J., Nierenberg, A. A., Miyahara, S., Sachs, G., Perlman, C., Ghaemi, S. N., Thase, M. E., & Otto, M. W. (2006). Persistent posttraumatic stress disorder following September 11 in patients with bipolar disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 67, 394-399.

McNally, R. J. (2006). Cognitive abnormalities in post-traumatic stress disorder. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 271-277.

McNally, R. J. (2006). Applying biological data in the forensic and policy arenas. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1071, 267-276.

McNally, R. J. (2006). Psychiatric casualties of war. Science, 313, 923-924.

Breslau, N., & McNally, R. J. (2006). The epidemiology of 9-11: Technical advances and conceptual conundrums. In Y. Neria, R. Gross, R. Marshall, & E. Susser (Eds.), 9/11: Mental health in the ke of terrorist attacks (pp. 521-528). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Vickers, K., & McNally, R. J. (2006). Panic disorder. In J. E. Fisher & W. T. O'Donohue (Eds.), Evidence-based psychotherapy (pp. 494-502). New York, NY: Springer.

McNally, R. J. (2006). Let Freud rest in peace. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 526-527.

Clancy, S. A., & McNally, R. J. (2005/2006). Who needs repression? Normal memory processes can explain "forgetting" of childhood sexual abuse. Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice, 4, 66-73.

2005

McNally, R. J. (2005). Directed forgetting tasks in clinical research. In A. Wenzel & D. C. Rubin (Eds.), Cognitive methods and their application to clinical research, (pp. 197-212). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Golding, J. M., & McNally, R. J. (2005). Directed forgetting research: Finding common ground. In A. Wenzel & D. C. Rubin (Eds.), Cognitive methods and their application to clinical research, (pp. 175-176). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

McNally, R. J., & Clancy, S. A. (2005). Sleep paralysis, sexual buse, and space alien abduction. Transcultural Psychiatry, 42, 113-122.

McNally, R. J., Clancy, S. A., Barrett, H. M., & Parker, H. A. (2005). Reality monitoring in adults reporting repressed, recovered, or continuous memories of childhood sexual abuse. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114, 147-152.

McNally, R. J., & Clancy, S. A. (2005). Sleep paralysis in adults reporting repressed, recovered, or continuous memories of childhood sexual abuse. Journal of Anxiety Disorders 19, 595-602.

McNally, R. J., Ristuccia, C. S., & Perlman, C. A. (2005). Forgetting of trauma cues in adults reporting continuous or recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. Psychological Science, 16, 336-340.

McNally, R. J. (2005). The science and controversy of traumatic memory. [Review of the book Posttraumatic stress disorder: Malady or myth?]. American Journal of Psychology, 118, 152-158.

Vickers, K., & McNally, R. J. (2005). Respiratory symptoms and panic in the National Comorbidity Study: A test of Klein's suffocation false alarm theory. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43, 1011-1018

Commission on Adolescent Anxiety Disorders [Foa, E. B., Costello, E. J., Franklin, M., Kagan, J., Kendall, P., Klein, R., Leonard, H., Liebowitz, M., March, J., McNally, R. J., Ollendick, T., Pine, D., Pynoos, R., Silverman, W., & Spear, L.]. (2005). Defining anxiety disorders. In D. L. Evans, Foa, E. B., Gur, R. E., Hendin, H., O'Brien, C. P., Seligman, M. E. P., & Walsh, B. T. (Eds.), Treating and preventing adolescent mental health disorders: What we know and what we don't know: A research agenda for improving the mental health of our youth, (pp. 161-182). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Booij, L., van der Does, A. J. W., Haffmans, P. M. J., Spinhoven, P., & McNally, R. J. (2005). Acute tryptophan depletion as a model of depressive relapse: Behavioural specificity and ethical considerations. British Journal of Psychiatry, 187, 148-154.

Foa, E. B., Cahill, S. P., Boscarino, J. A., Hobfoll, S. E., Lahad, M., McNally, R. J., & Solomon, Z. (2005). Social, psychological, and psychiatric interventions following terrorist attacks: Recommendations for practice and research. Neuropsychopharmacology, 30, 1806-1817.

Kihlstrom, J. F., McNally, R. J., Loftus, E. F., & Pope, H. G., Jr. (2005). The problem of child sexual abuse. Science, 309, 1182-1183. [Letter]

Hinton, D. E., Pich, V., Chhean, D., Pollack, M. H., & McNally, R. J. 005). Sleep paralysis among Cambodian refugees: Association with PTSD diagnosis and severity. Depression and Anxiety, 22, 47-51.

Hinton, D. E., Pich, V., Safren, S. A., Pollack, M. H., & McNally, R. J. (2005). Anxiety sensitivity in traumatized Cambodian refugees: A discriminant function and factor analytic investigation. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43, 1631-1643.

McNally, R. J. (2005). Debunking myths about trauma and memory. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 50, 817-822.

McNally, R. J. (2005). Troubles in traumatology. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 50, 815-816.

McNally, R. J. (2005, December 9). E. T., where are you? Chronicle of Higher Education, 52(16), p. A43 [Letter].

McNally, R. J. (2005). The folklore of buried memories. Project Syndicate: An Association of Newspapers Around the World. www.project-syndicate.org [Op-Ed essay].

For 1981-2004 publications: see CV