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Online Talk by Prof. Richard J. McNally

We are thrilled to announce that Professor McNally will be giving a talk hosted by the EAPL. Prof. McNally will be speaking on ‘Trauma, Memory, and the Law’ on Thursday, Feb 27, at 9 am (ET). Please save the date!

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Richard J. McNally, Ph.D.

Richard J. McNally, Ph.D has been a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University since 1995. He co-founded the clinical psychology program in 2000 and has served as its Director of Clinical Training since 2003. He has more than 540 publications, most concerning anxiety and related disorders (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD] , panic disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder), including the books Panic Disorder: A Critical Analysis (1994), Remembering Trauma (2003), and What is Mental Illness? (2011). He has conducted laboratory studies on cognitive functioning in adults reporting histories of childhood sexual abuse, including those reporting recovered memories of abuse. Recent studies concern loneliness, trigger warnings, and network analyses of psychopathology. He has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, and he served on the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-IV PTSD and specific phobia committees and was an advisor to the DSM-5 Anxiety Disorders Sub-Workgroup. He is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), winner of the 2005 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology, and the winner of the 2010 Outstanding Mentor Award from ABCT. He is on the Institute for Scientific Information’s “Highly Cited” list for psychology and psychiatry [top 0.5% of authors worldwide in terms of citation impact].

Trauma, Memory, and the Law

The intersection between cognitive and clinical psychology has been especially contentious when the point of contact concerns trauma, memory, and the law. This was especially notable during the height of the so-called “Memory Wars” when proponents of the concept of repressed (dissociated) and recovered memories of trauma and their skeptical critics both adduced peer-reviewed research in support of their views. As one of the skeptical critics, I will document why proponents appear to have misunderstood studies they have adduced in support of their perspective. Although the controversy was long framed as bipolar (i.e., such memories were either previously repressed or they were false), I will sketch a third interpretation that does not rest on either the assumption of repression or of false memory. My second topic concerns the debate regarding the clinical and legal relevance of putatively fragmented memories of trauma. Finally, my third topic addresses the scientific basis for arguably the most spectacularly successful book ever written in the field of traumatic stress studies, Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score.

Annual EAPL Conference 2025 in Vilnius, Lithuania

Technological Advancements and Application in Legal Psychology

The conference will take place from 5–8 August, 2025

Conference website: https://eapl2025.com/

Call for Abstracts: https://eapl2025.com/call-for-abstracts/

Registration: https://eapl2025.com/registration/

Annual EAPL Conference in Caparica, Portugal 2024

The 2024 EAPL conference took place in Caparica, Portugal from July 9-12th 2024.

Please check out the dedicated website: https://www.eapl2024.com

 

Past Conferences

Annual EAPL Conference in Cluj-Napoca (Transylvania, Romania) 2023

After three years without conferences in person, we held the Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) from July 4th (Tuesday) to July 7th (Friday) 2023.

Thanks to Laura Visu-Petra (@LauraPeVis)  and her team of organisers, we had an amazing time! Please visit the dedicated conference homepage at https://eaplconference.ro for a reprise.

 

Online Events in 2022

As the EAPL conference was postponed to 2023, we had a series of online events in 2022. The events were held in August/September 2022. They focussed on various aspects of Psychology and Law:

  • Vulnerability in Forensic Settings (17th August 2022),
  • Criminal Profiling and Crime Linkage (31st August 2022),
  • Asylum Interviewing and Decision Making (28th September 2022).

Each event included relevant keynote speakers, a roundtable discussion and student/ early career presentations. As an EAPL member you can re-watch all the events on the dedicated page.

V-EAPL Conference 2021

Dear members and friends of the EAPL,

what an amazing event! We had three consecutive half-day sessions (August 23-27) with keynotes, life talks, pre-recorded sessions, posters, and many more! And there was even more: Social events that we enjoyed so much!

Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2019)

The 2019 EAPL conference took place in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on July 17-20.  The scientific program was addressing the key issues in psychology and law. Different areas of forensic psychology and criminology were  explored, such as eyewitness testimonies, investigative interviews, lie detection and credibility assessment, risk assessment, recidivism, treatment of offenders and victims. Researchers and practitioners from Europe and other parts of the World were invited to share their recent scientific work and field experience concerning new challenges faced in legal processes.

Proceedings of the Conference in Santiago de Compostela (2019) online now !

Thanks to Ramón Arce and his team you can get the Conference Proceedings for free fom Sciendo:
Arce, R. (Ed.). (2020). Psychology and Law: Research for practice. Sciendo. https://doi.org/10.2478/9788395669682.

 

Conference History

2023 Cluj Napoca, Romania https://eaplconference.ro
2022 EAPL Online Events 2022 https://eapl.eu/conferences/online-events-2022-recordings
2021 Virtual EAPL Conference 2021 https://eapl.eu/conferences/veapl2021
2020 Virtual EAPL Conference 2020 https://eapl.eu/veapl-2020
2019 Santiago de Compostela, Spain http://sepjf.org
2018 Turku, Finland https://eapl2018.fi/
2017 Mechelen, Belgium
2016 Toulouse, France https://eapl2016.sciencesconf.org
2015 Nuremberg, Germany
2014 Saint Petersburg, Russia
2013 Coventry, United Kingdom
2012 Nicosia, Cyprus
2011 Miami, USA
2010 Gothenburg, Sweden
2009 Sorrento, Italy
2008 Maastricht, Netherlands
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