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Michael Nash

Research Interest

My interests include psychodynamic therapy, the interface of literature with science and practice, the elements of change in psychotherapy, and how therapy skills can best be acquired by trainees. In addition I have abiding interests in human memory, forensic psychology, suggestion, the neural substrate of consciousness, and hypnosis. I direct the ongoing case-based psychotherapy outcome research carried-out at the UT Psychological Clinic. This research tracks change in individual patients throughout the course of therapy, enabling us to discern whether the therapy is working, when it is working, and sometimes why. I teach Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Research Design.

Honors

I have received 17 awards and honors for research, scholarship and professional training. These include:

  • Fellow, American Psychological Association (elected 1991).
  • University of Tennessee Chancellor's Award for Research and Creative Achievement for Young Faculty (1988).
  • Phi Beta Kappa Certificate of Merit in the Social Sciences (1994).
  • Psi Chi Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty Award (1994).
  • Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology (1994)
  • International Golden Key Honor Society Award for Outstanding Contribution and Support to Undergraduate Education (1999).
  • Bernard B. Raginsky Award for Leadership and Achievement (2002)
  • University of Tennessee Chancellor's Award for Research and Creative Achievement (2004).
  • Ernest and Josephine Hilgard Award for Best theoretical Paper (2004)
  • Editor, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (1998-2002)
  • Erika Fromm Award for Teaching Excellence (2007)

Upcoming Book

Nash, M.R. & Barnier, A (2008). The Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis. Oxford, UK:Oxford University Press.

Selected Publications

I typically publish 5-7 articles a year.  Below are 10 selected articles from the last few years.  Send me an email if you are interested in seeing a complete list.

Nash, M. R. (2006).  Identifying the Building Blocks of Hypnotizability, and the Neural Underpinnings of Subjective Pain. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 5, 360-365.

Nash, M. R. (2005). The importance of being earnest when crafting definitions: Science and scientism are not the same thing. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 53, 265-280.

Borckardt, J. J., Murphy, M. D., Nash, M. R., Moore, M. A., and Shaw, D. (2004). An empirical examination of visual analysis procedures for clinical practice evaluation. Journal of Social Service Research, 30. 55-73.

Borckardt, J. J., Younger, J., Winkel, J., Nash, M. R., and Shaw, D. (2004). The use of the computer-assisted cognitive imagery system in the management of pain. Pain Research and Management, 9, 157-162.

Borckardt, J., Engum, E.S., Lambert, E.W., Nash, M.R. (2003). Use of the CBDI to detect malingering when malingerers do their “homework.” Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 18, 57-69.

Borckardt, J.J., Nash, M.R. (2003). Practitioners’ scientifically viable contributions to clinical outcome research. Hypnose 13, 16-42.

Killeen, P.R., Nash, M.R. (2003). The four causes of hypnosis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis 51, 195-231.

Borckardt, J.J., Nash, M.R. (2002) How practitioners (and others) can make scientifically viable contributions to clinical outcome research using the single-case time-series design. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis 50, 114-148.

Nash, M.R. (2002) Key findings in the research literature. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis 50, 86-88.

Nash, M.R. (2001) The truth and hype of hypnosis. Scientific American 285, 46-55.

King, B.J., Nash, M.R., Spiegel, D., Jobson, K. (2001) Hypnotic intervention in pain management: A brief review. International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice 5, 97-101.

Heap, C., Nash, M.R. (2001) Changing beliefs about the past: Exploring mechanisms of the imagination inflation effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition 27, 920-930.

Michael Nash

Professor
Ph.D., Ohio University (1983)

Email: mnash@utk.edu
Phone: (865) 974-3326

Key words: Psychotherapy outcome, memory, hypnosis, forensic psychology, pain, and soma