Richard Bryant

Professor

B.A. (Hons.)/PhD

richard.bryant@sydney.edu.au

Brain Dynamics Centre

Trauma Stress Group

Richard Bryant

Biography

Professor Richard Bryant, BA (Hons), MPsychol, PhD, FAPS, FASSA is Group Leader of the Westmead Institute’s Traumatic Stress Group, which is part of its Brain Dynamics Centre.

His research has focused on identification of people at risk of mental health problems after trauma, early intervention strategies, treatment strategies for posttraumatic stress, and complicated grief.

Professor Bryant also works on many major national and international projects, including developing the Australian NHMRC PTSD treatment guidelines, web treatments for US troops returning from Iraq, tsunami survivors in Thailand, developing counselling programs for disaster survivors in the USA after Hurricane Katrina, and web-based treatments for complicated grief patients in the USA.

Research interests

Post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety: assessment, cognitive processes, and treatment. Experimental and clinical investigation of dissociative processes: memory, trauma, and dissociation. Clinical and experimental hypnosis. Autobiographical memory in clinical disorders.

Adjunct roles

Current grants

Affiliations

Sydney Medical School, Westmead Clinical School, Westmead Clinical School

Professional Associations and Organisations

Awards and recognition

2007 Australian Society for Psychiatric Research Founders Medal
2006 Australian Association for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Lifetime Achievement Award
1996 Australian Psychological Society Early Career Award for research excellence
2001 International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies Robert F. Laufer Award
2000 Emergency Management Australia Award
2000 Australian Museum’s Eureka Prize for Science
1999 Ian Campbell Award from the Australian Psychological Society for research excellence
1999 Australian Society of Hypnosis Award for research excellence
1999 Academy Medal of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
1996 Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Service Gold Achievement Award for scientific excellence