Thomas R. Lynch

Thomas R. Lynch
Born 1956 (age 61–62)
Decatur, Illinois, United States
Alma mater Arizona State University, Kent State University
Occupation Creator of Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy, psychologist, professor, author, artist
Spouse(s) Erica
Children 1

Thomas R. Lynch (born 1956) is an American psychologist, author, and treatment developer of radically open dialectical behavior therapy[1] (RO DBT), a type of psychotherapy that targets disorders characterized by excessive self-control (e.g., chronic depression, anorexia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder). He is an Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton in Southampton, United Kingdom.

Early life and education

Thomas Lynch was born in 1956 in Decatur, Illinois. He attended University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1975, where he initially majored in fine arts (drawing/painting) and pre-medicine. Lynch transferred to Arizona State University Tempe campus, where he completed his B.S. in Nursing and MS in Psychiatric Nursing (1988), interning at the Gestalt Therapy Institute in Phoenix, AZ. He received his PhD in clinical psychology at Kent State University in 1996 and completed postdoctoral training at Duke University.

Career

From 1998 to 2007, Lynch was a member of the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Duke University, where he was the Director of the Duke Cognitive Behavioral Research and Treatment Program. In 2007, Lynch relocated to Exeter University, and shortly thereafter was appointed Professor of Clinical Psychology. In 2011, he relocated to the University of Southampton, where he served as the Director of the Emotion and Personality Bio-behavioural Laboratory until 2017. He was the Chief Investigator of a multi-center randomized controlled trial funded by the Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation program and Medical Research Council—Project REFRAMEd—REFRactory: Mechanisms and Effectiveness of Radically Open-Dialectical Behavior Therapy.[2]

Publications

Lynch has published the treatment manuals Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Theory and Practice for Treating Disorders of Overcontrol and The Skills Training Manual for Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide for Treating Disorders of Overcontrol.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Radically Open Ltd: Training, supervision and support for radical-openness and Radically Open DBT (RO DBT)". Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Theory.
  2. ↑ Lynch, T. R.; Whalley, B.; Hempel, R. J.; Byford, S.; Clarke, P.; Clarke, S.; Kingdon, D.; O'Mahen, H.; Russell, I. T. (2015-07-01). "Refractory depression: mechanisms and evaluation of radically open dialectical behaviour therapy (RO-DBT) [REFRAMED]: protocol for randomised trial". BMJ Open. 5 (7): e008857. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008857. ISSN 2044-6055. PMID 26187121.
  3. ↑ Lynch, Thomas R. Radically open dialectical behavior therapy : theory and practice for treating disorders of overcontrol. Oakland, CA. ISBN 1626259283. OCLC 1002290750.
  4. ↑ Lynch, Thomas R. The skills training manual for Radically open dialectical behavior therapy : a clinician's guide for treating disorders of overcontrol. Complemented by (work) Lynch, Thomas R. (Professor of clinical psychology). Oakland, CA. ISBN 1626259313. OCLC 1002290050.
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