Dr Ryan McKay
Adjunct Lecturer
B.SC. HONS PSYCHOLOGY (1st CLASS), University of Western Australia, 1997
MPSYCH(CLIN)/PHD, Macquarie University, 2005
Ryan McKay
Bio
Ryan’s research aims to develop a comprehensive model of delusion formation and maintenance, a model that can be used to guide and inform psychotherapeutic interventions for delusions. He is also interested in specifying correspondences between delusions and other forms of belief and misbelief, and in locating all of these phenomena in a clear evolutionary context. Ryan did his PhD in Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, combined with a Masters in Clinical Psychology. Ryan came to CSU from Boston, where he worked as a Research Associate with Professor Daniel Dennett at the Tufts University Center for Cognitive Studies. Prior to that Ryan worked in London as a Clinical Neuropsychologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
Teaching
- Psychopathology
- Psychology of Personality
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Clinical Psychologist in Practice
- Supervision of student research
Research
- Delusion formation and maintenance
Recent publications
Membership of professional associations and groups
- Member of the Australian Psychological Society
- Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society
- Member of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science
- Member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
- Member of the International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Society
- Associate Member of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
