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.G., Menzies, R.E., & Dingle, G. (under contract). Existential concerns and cognitive-behavioral procedures – An integrative approach to mental health. New York: Springer.
Media Articles
Fear of Death Underlies Most of Our Phobias
16th May, 2016, The Conversation
Death Anxiety: The Worm at the Core of Mental Health
December, 2018, InPsych magazine
Body bags and corpse meditations: Is this how you cure your dread of death?
September, 2019, The Sydney Morning Herald
Death anxiety: Body bags, catastrophic thinking, and facing the inevitable.
July, 2020, The Guardian
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Menzies, R.E., Neimeyer, R.A., & Menzies, R.G. (2020). Death anxiety, loss and grief in the time of COVID-19. Behaviour Change.
- Menzies, R.E., Sharpe, L., & Dar-Nimrod, I. (2020). The effect of mortality salience on bodily scanning behaviours in anxiety-related disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.