From dread to disorder: A meta-analysis of the impact of death anxiety on mental illness symptoms

RE Menzies, K McMullen, G Riotto, S Iliescu… - Clinical Psychology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Growing research suggests that death anxiety may be transdiagnostic, playing a key role in
the development and symptomology of psychopathology. This meta-analysis examined the …

Death anxiety and mental health: Requiem for a dreamer

RE Menzies, RG Menzies - Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, there has been an increased interest in the role of death anxiety in a broad range
of mental health disorders. It has been argued that the fear of death may be a …

Reduced death anxiety and obsessive beliefs as mediators of the therapeutic effects of psychedelics on obsessive compulsive disorder symptomology

SG Moreton, A Burden-Hill, RE Menzies - Clinical Psychologist, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Objective Emerging research suggests that the use of serotonergic psychedelics can be
associated with reductions in obsessions and compulsions. However, little research to date …

Are anxiety disorders a pathway to obsessive-compulsive disorder? Different trajectories of OCD and the role of death anxiety

RE Menzies, M Zuccala, L Sharpe… - Nordic journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives A body of research has demonstrated high rates of comorbidity among
individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Further, recent empirical evidence …

[HTML][HTML] Las relaciones dinámicas de red de la obsesión y la ansiedad ante la muerte por COVID-19 durante la segunda cuarentena en universitarios peruanos

C Ramos-Vera - Revista colombiana de psiquiatría, 2021 - scielo.org.co
El brote de la enfermedad coronavírica de 2019 (COVID-19) causada por SARS-Cov-2ha
afectado prácticamente a todos los países y territorios del mundo, lo que ha hecho que se la …

A cross-sectional study of existential concerns and fear of progression in people with Rheumatoid Arthritis

L Sharpe, B Richmond, J Todd, J Dudeney… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have higher levels of fear of disease
progression (FOP) than cancer survivors. In cancer, FOP is inextricably linked with …

Overcome death anxiety: the development of an online cognitive behaviour therapy programme for fears of death

RE Menzies, L Sharpe, FD Helgadóttir… - Behaviour …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Emerging research suggests that death anxiety is a transdiagnostic construct, which may
underpin a number of mental illnesses. Although cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has …

Existential concerns in OCD with aggressive and sexual obsessions

S Chawla, RE Menzies, RG Menzies - Journal of obsessive-compulsive …, 2022 - Elsevier
Previous research has highlighted the potential role of existential concerns (ECs) in
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). However, empirical research has thus far only …

OCD, death anxiety, and attachment: what's love got to do with it?

RE Verin, RE Menzies, RG Menzies - Behavioural and cognitive …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Background: Death anxiety has been empirically implicated in obsessive compulsive
disorder (OCD). Research has shown that secure attachments appear to protect against fear …

Death awareness and terror management theory

I Dar-Nimrod - … concerns and cognitive-behavioral procedures: An …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Terror Management Theory (TMT) is the dominant social psychological theory
examining the relationship between death awareness and human behaviour. According to …