Department of Psychology
Biography:
Keywords: anxiety disorders, perfectionism, cognitive-behavioural therapy, psychopathology
Dr. Antony is Director of the Anxiety Research and Treatment Lab at Ryerson, a past president of the Canadian Psychological Association, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In addition, he holds faculty appointments at the University of Toronto (Department of Psychiatry), McMaster University (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences), and the University of Waterloo (Department of Psychology. Previously, he was based at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, where he served as Psychologist-in-Chief and Founding Director of both the Anxiety Treatment and Research Centre and the Clinical Psychology Residency Program. Dr. Antony has published 29 books and more than 175 journal articles and chapters. He has also been interviewed or quoted by ABC News, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, Fitness Magazine, National Geographic Channel, O (Oprah) Magazine, Oxygen Magazine, Shape Magazine, Washington Post, Women’s Health, Women’s World, Reader’s Digest, Vitality Magazine, and many other print, radio, and television outlets.
Dr. Antony’s research interests are in the area of anxiety disorders, perfectionism, and cognitive behaviour therapy. Current projects include a CIHR-funded study on motivational interviewing for severe generalized anxiety disorder, as well as several other projects in the areas of social anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and perfectionism.
Recent Publications:
1. Gee, B.A., Fracalanza, K., & Antony, M.M. (in press). Behavior therapies (functional analysis, operant conditioning-based strategies, behavioral activation, applied relaxation, social skills training). In R. Cautin & S.O. Lilienfeld (eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
2. Gee, B.A., Nowakowski, M.E., & Antony, M.M. (in press). Hypochondriasis/Health Anxiety. In R. Cautin & S.O. Lilienfeld (eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
3. Gros, D.F., McCabe, R.E., & Antony, M.M. (in press). Using a hybrid model to investigate the comorbidity and symptom overlap between social phobia and the other anxiety disorders and unipolar mood disorders. Psychiatry Research.
4. Hood, H.K., & Antony, M.M. (in press). Panic disorder. In J.D. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences, 2nd ed. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
5. McCabe, R.E., Hood, H.K., & Antony, M.M. (in press). Anxiety disorders: Social anxiety disorder and specific phobia. In A. Tasman, J. Lieberman, J. Kay, M. First, & M. Riba (eds.), Psychiatry, 4th ed. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
6. Nelson, A.L., Vorstenbosch, V., & Antony, M.M. (in press). Assessing fear of storms and severe weather: Validation of the Storm Fear Questionnaire (SFQ). Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.
7. Nowakowski, M.E., & Antony, M.M. (in press). Reactions to teasing in social anxiety. Cognitive Therapy and Research.
8. Nowakowski, M.E., Atkey, S.K., & Antony, M.M. (in press). Self-help/bibliotherapy. In R. Cautin & S.O. Lilienfeld (eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
9. Nowakowski, M.E., Rogojanski, J., & Antony, M.M. (in press). Specific phobia. In S.G. Hofmann (Ed.), Wiley handbook of cognitive behavioral therapy. Volume 2: CBT for specific disorders. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
10. Rowa, K., McCabe, R.E., Antony, M.M., & Swinson, R.P. (in press). A preliminary attempt to experimentally induce post-event processing in social anxiety disorder. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.
11. Rowa, K., Milosevic, I., & Antony, M.M. (in press). Cognitive-behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder: Applying the approach. In J.W. Weeks (Ed.), Wiley-Blackwell handbook on social anxiety. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
12. Vorstenbosch, V., Newman, L., & Antony, M.M. (in press). Exposure techniques. In S.G. Hofmann (Ed.), Wiley handbook of cognitive behavioral therapy. Volume 1: CBT general strategies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
13. Antony, M.M. (2014). Behavior therapy. In D. Wedding & R.J. Corsini (Eds.), Current psychotherapies (10th ed., pp. 193-229). Belmont, CA: Cengage Brooks/Cole.
14. Gee, B.A., Antony, M.M., & Koerner, N. (2013). Disclosure of anxiety in everyday life: Effects of social anxiety. Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 438-441.
15. Gee, B.A., Antony, M.M., & Koerner, N. (2013). How do people perceive the disclosure of emotion? Cognitive Therapy and Research, 37, 579-586.
16. Gee, B.A., Hood, H.K., & Antony, M.M. (2013). Anxiety disorders: A historical perspective. In T.G. Plante (Ed.), Abnormal psychology through the ages, Vol. 2, Disorders and treatments (pp. 31-47). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Praeger.
17. Koerner, N., Antony, M.M., Young, L., & McCabe, R.E. (2013). Changes in beliefs about social competence of self and others following group cognitive-behavioral treatment. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 37, 256-265.
18. MacDonald, E.M., Koerner, N., & Antony, M.M. (2013). Modification of interpretive bias: Impact on anxiety sensitivity, information processing and response to induced bodily sensations. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 37, 860-871.
19. Mathewson, K.J., Schmidt, L.A., Miskovic, V., Santesso, D.L., Duka, E., McCabe, R.E., Antony, M.M., & Moscovitch, D.A. (2013). Does respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) predict anxiety reduction during cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for social anxiety disorder (SAD)? International Journal of Psychophysiology, 88, 171-181.
20. Moscovitch, D.A., Rowa, K., Paulitzky, J.R., Ierullo, M.D., Chiang, B., Antony, M.M., & McCabe, R.E. (2013). Self-portrayal concerns and their relation to safety behaviors and negative affect in social anxiety disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 51, 476-486.
21. Mushquash, A.R., Stewart, S.H., Sherry, S.B., Mackinnon, S.P., Antony, M.M., & Sherry, D.L. (2013). Heavy episodic drinking among dating partners: A longitudinal actor-partner interdependence model. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 27, 178-183.
22. Rowa, K., Hood, H.K., & Antony, M.M. (2013). Generalized anxiety disorder. In W.E. Craighead, D.J. Miklowitz, & L.W. Craighead (Eds.), Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and empirical foundations, 2nd ed. (pp. 108-146). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
23. Sherry, S.B., MacKinnon, A.L., Fossum, K., Antony, M.M., Stewart, S.H., Sherry, D.L., Nealis, L.J., & Mushquash, A.R. (2013). Perfectionism, discrepancies, and depression: Testing the perfectionism social disconnection model in a short-term, four-wave longitudinal study. Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 692-697.
24. Van Dam, N.T., Gros, D.F., Earleywine, M., & Antony, M.M. (2013). Establishing a trait anxiety threshold that signals likelihood of anxiety disorders. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 26, 70-86.
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