Rachel E. Menzies completed her honours degree in psychology at the
University of Sydney, taking out the Dick Thompson Thesis Prize for
her work on the dread of death and its relationship to Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Beginning in her undergraduate years,
her work on fear of death and psychopathology has been published in
Clinical Psychology Review, Australian Clinical Psychologist and
several leading international journals. She has been invited to
speak at distinguished international events and to deliver a
workshop tour across seven cities with the Australian Association
for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (AACBT). She was the lead editor of
Curing the Dread of Death: Theory, Research and Practice, and,
having completed her masters and doctoral degrees in psychology in
2020, she has recently taken up a postgraduate fellowship at the
University of Sydney. She can regularly be heard on national radio,
popular podcasts and at relevant public events such as The Festival
of Death and Dying.
Ross G. Menzies completed his undergraduate, masters and doctoral
degrees in psychology at the University of NSW and is now a
professor in the Graduate School of Health at the University of
Technology Sydney (UTS). Over his career he has been founding
Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the University of
Sydney, National President of the Australian Association for
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (AACBT), President and Convenor of the
8th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (WCBCT),
and, most recently, founding Director of the newly formed World
Confederation of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (WCCBT). He
has trained psychologists, psychiatrists and allied health workers
in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) around the globe and is the
previous editor of Australia's national CBT journal, Behaviour
Change. He continues active research and has published nine books
and more than 200 journal papers and book chapters.
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