1. Richard J McNally was born on April 17,1954 and is an American psychologist and director of clinical training at Harvard University's department of psychology.

1. Richard J McNally was born on April 17,1954 and is an American psychologist and director of clinical training at Harvard University's department of psychology.
Richard McNally attended Edsel Ford High School and graduated in 1972.
Richard McNally later transferred to Wayne State University in his hometown of Detroit to study psychology.
Richard McNally received his clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Temple University's behavioral therapy unit.
Richard McNally received clinical supervision from Ford fellowship recipient Joseph Wolpe.
Richard McNally is a licensed clinical psychologist, a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, winner of the 2005 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology, and the winner of the 2010 Outstanding Mentor Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
Richard 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, Behavior Research and Therapy, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, and Psychological Science.
Richard McNally served on the specific phobia and post-traumatic stress disorder committees of the DSM-IV task force.
Richard McNally is on the Institute for Scientific Information's "highly cited" list for psychology and psychiatry.
Richard McNally was among the first investigators to apply information-processing paradigms to elucidate biases in attention, memory, and interpretation in patients with panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and PTSD.