Publications

Books

• Menzies, R.E., & Menzies, R.G., & Iverach, L. (Eds.) (2018).  Curing the Dread of Death: Theory, Research and Practice. Brisbane: Australian Academic Press.

• Menzies, R.G., & Menzies, R.E. (2019). Tales from the Valley of Death: Reflects from Psychotherapy on the Fear of Death. Brisbane: Australian Academic Press. 

• Menzies, R.E., & Menzies, R.G. (2021). Mortals: How the Fear of Death Shaped Human Society. Allen & Unwin.

• Menzies, R.E., & Veale, D. (2022). Free Yourself from Death Anxiety: A CBT Self-Help Guide for a Fear of Death and Dying. Jessica Kingsley Publishing.

• Menzies, R.G., Menzies, R.E., & Dingle, G. (under contract). Existential concerns and cognitive-behavioral procedures – An integrative approach to mental health. New York: Springer.

Book Chapters

• Menzies, R.E., & Iverach, L. (2016). The dread of death and its relationship to mental health. In R.G. Menzies, M. Kyrios & N. Kazantzis (Ed.), Innovations and Future Directions in the Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies. (pp. 219-223). Brisbane: Australian Academic Press.

• Iverach, L., Menzies, R. M., & Menzies, R.E. (2016). Fear of death underlies most of our phobias. In J. Watson (Ed.), The Conversation Yearbook 2016: 50 standout articles from Australia’s top thinkers. Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Publishing.

• Menzies, R.E., & Menzies, R.G. (2017). Anxiety Disorders: Gender Differences. In A.E. Wenzel (Ed.), The Sage Encyclopaedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

• Menzies, R.E., & Menzies, R.G. (2017). Anxiety Disorders: Incidence and Prevalence. In A.E. Wenzel (Ed.), The Sage Encyclopaedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

• Menzies, R.E., & Menzies, R.G. (2017). Anxiety Disorders: Lifespan Perspectives. In A.E. Wenzel (Ed.), The Sage Encyclopaedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

• Menzies, R.E. (2018). Impermanence and the human dilemma: Observations across the ages. In R.E. Menzies, R.G. Menzies, & L. Iverach (Eds.), Curing the dread of death: Theory, research and practice (pp. 3-21). Australian Academic Press.

• Menzies, R.E. (2018). Cognitive and behavioural procedures for the treatment of death anxiety.  In R.E. Menzies, R.G. Menzies, & L. Iverach (Eds.), Curing the dread of death: Theory, research and practice (pp. 167-184). Australian Academic Press.

• Menzies, R.G., & Menzies, R.E. (2018). The death instinct and psychodynamic accounts of the wound of mortality. In R.E. Menzies, R.G. Menzies, & L. Iverach (Eds.), Curing the dread of death: Theory, research and practice (pp. 83-101).

• Menzies, R.G., & Menzies, R.E. (2018). Fear of death: Nature, development and moderating factors. In R.E. Menzies, R.G. Menzies, & L. Iverach (Eds.), Curing the dread of death: Theory, research and practice (pp. 21-40).

• Menzies, R.G., & Menzies, R.E. (2020). Emotional pain and suffering: The search for global solutions beyond the clinic. In P. Rhodes (Ed.), Beyond The Psychology Industry. What Kind of Therapy Do We Need Now? Springer Publishing.

• Wittkowski, J., & Menzies, R.E. (under contract). Death-related attitudes and perspectives. In H. Servaty-Seib & H. Chapple (Eds.), Handbook of Thanatology. Association of Death Education and Counseling.

• Zuccala, M., & Menzies, R.E. (under contract). Fears of death and their relationship to mental health. In R.G. Menzies, R.E. Menzies, & G. Dingle (Eds.), Existential Concerns and Cognitive-Behavioral Procedures: An Integrative Approach to Mental Health. Springer Nature Switzerland. Under contract.

• Menzies, R.E., & Veale, D. (under contract). Creative approaches to treating the dread of death. In R.G. Menzies, R.E. Menzies, & G. Dingle (Eds.), Existential Concerns and Cognitive-Behavioral Procedures: An Integrative Approach to Mental Health. Springer Nature Switzerland. Under contract.

Journal Articles

• Iverach, L., Menzies, R.G., & Menzies, R.E. (2014).  Death anxiety and its role in psychopathology: Reviewing the status of a transdiagnostic construct. Clinical Psychology Review, 34, 580-593. 

• Menzies, R.G., Menzies, R.E., & Iverach, L. (2015).  The role of death fears in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.  Australian Clinical Psychologist, 1, 6-11. 

• Menzies, R.E., & Dar-Nimrod, I. (2017). Death anxiety and its relationship with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 126, 367-377.

• Menzies, R.E., Zuccala, M., Sharpe, L., & Dar-Nimrod, I. (2018). The effects of psychosocial interventions on death anxiety: A meta-analysis and systematic review of randomised controlled trials. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 59, 64-73.

• Menzies, R.E., Sharpe, L., & Dar-Nimrod, I. (2019). The relationship between death anxiety and severity of mental illnesses. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 58, 452-467.

• Zuccala, M., Menzies, R.E., Hunt, C., & Abbott, M. (2019). A systematic review of the psychometric properties of death anxiety self-report measures. Death Studies, 6, 1-23.

• Moreton, S., Szalla, L., Menzies, R.E., & Arena, A. (2019). Embedding existential psychology within psychedelic science: Reduced death anxiety as a mediator of the therapeutic effects of psychedelics. Psychopharmacology.

• Menzies, R.E., Zuccala, M., Sharpe, L., & Dar-Nimrod, I. (2020). Subtypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder and their relationship to death anxiety. Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders, 27, 100572.

• Menzies, R.E., Zuccala, M., Sharpe, L., & Dar-Nimrod, I. (2020). Pathways to obsessive-compulsive disorder and the role of death anxiety. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 75(3), 170-175.

• Menzies, R.E., Neimeyer, R.A., & Menzies, R.G. (2020). Death anxiety, loss and grief in the time of COVID-19. Behaviour Change, 37(3), 111-115.

• Menzies, R.E., Sharpe, L., & Dar-Nimrod, I. (2021). The effect of mortality salience on bodily scanning behaviours in anxiety-related disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 2(999).

• Menzies, R.E., Sharpe, L., Helgadóttir, F.D., & Dar-Nimrod, I. (2021). Overcome Death Anxiety:  The development of an online CBT program for fears of death. Behaviour Change, 38(4), 235-249.

• Verin, R.E., Menzies, R.E., & Menzies, R.G. (2021). Death anxiety, OCD and attachment: What’s love got to do with it? Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.

• Pradhan, P., Sharpe, L., & Menzies, R.E. (2021). Towards a stepped care model for managing fear of cancer recurrence or progression in cancer survivors. Cancer Management and Research, 13, 8953-8965.

• Arena, A., MacCann, C., Menzies, R.E., Moreton, S., & Tiliopoulos, N. (2022). Living authentically in the face of death: Predictors of autonomous motivation among individuals exposed to chronic mortality cues compared to a matched community sample. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying.

• Sharpe, L., Todd, J., Scott, A., Gatzounis, I., Menzies, R.E., & Meulders, A. (2022). Safety behaviours or safety precautions? The role of subtle avoidance in anxiety disorders in the context of chronic physical illness. Clinical Psychology Review, 92, 102126.

• Menzies, R.E., & Whittle, L.F. (2022). Stoicism and death acceptance: Integrating Stoic philosophy in cognitive behaviour therapy for death anxiety. Discover Psychology.

• Chawla, S., Menzies, R.E., & Menzies, R.G. (2022). Existential concerns in OCD with aggressive and sexual obsessions. The Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 32, 100710.

• Sharpe, L., Michalowski, M., Richmond, B., Menzies, R.E., & Shaw, J. (2022). Fear of progression in chronic illnesses other than cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of a transdiagnostic construct. Health Psychology Review, 18, 1-20.

• Dudeney, J., Sharpe, L., McGuire, B., Menzies, R.E., & McDonald, S. (2022). Are psychological interventions efficacious for adults with migraine? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Headache, 00, 1-15.