About

I am an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology of the University of Western Ontario. My primary appointments are with the Neuropsychiatry Division (Psychiatry) and the Personality & Measurement Area (Psychology). I am also appointed in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience.

I am currently the Chair-Elect of the Traumatic Stress Section of the Canadian Psychological Association.

I am also a practicing clinical psychologist affiliated with the London Health Sciences Centre Mental Health Program and InMedic Pain Management Centres.

I am currently supervising undergraduate theses and independent study students and am interest to supervise graduate students.

I work closely with members of the PTSD Research Lab, directed by Dr. Ruth Lanius, in the Department of Psychiatry. I also collaborate closely with several members of the Department of Psychology, including Dr. David Dozois, Dr. Richard (Jim) Neufeld, and Dr. Greg Moran.

My research is currently supported by the Ontario Mental Health Foundation and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.

Please click here for Supplementary Materials to Frewen & Lundberg VVSORP task manuscript currently in review in Personality & Individual Differences

Publications

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Frewen PA, Lundberg E., MacKinley J, & Wrath A. (in press) Assessment of response to mindfulness meditation: Mediation breath attention scores in association with subjective measures of state and trait mindfulness and difficulty letting-go of depressive cognition. Mindfulness.

Frewen PA, Allen SL, Lanius RA, & Neufeld RWJ. (in press). Perceived causal relations: Novel methodology for assessing client attributions about causal associations between variables including symptoms and functional impairment. Assessment.

Bluhm RL, Frewen PA, Coupland NC, Densmore M, Schore AN, Neufeld RWJ, & Lanius RA. (in press) Neural Correlates of Self-Reflection in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Psychiatrica Scandinavia.

Lanius RA, Bluhm RL, & Frewen P.A. (2011) How understanding the neurobiology of complex PTSD can inform clinical practice: A social cognitive and affective neuroscience approach. Psychiatrica Scandinavia.

Lanius, R.A., Frewen, P.A., Vermetten, E., & Yehuda, R. (2010). Transitioning from fear conditioning to emotion and arousal regulation in PTSD. European Journal of Psychotraumatology 1, 5467 - DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v1i0.546

Frewen, P.A., Dozois, D.J.A., Neufeld, R. W. J., & Lanius, R.A. (in press). Disturbances of Emotional Awareness & Expression in PTSD: Meta-mood, Emotion Regulation, Mindfulness, and Interference of Emotional Expressiveness. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, & Policy.

Frewen, P.A., Dozois, D.J.A., Neufeld, R. W. J., Densmore, M., Stevens, T., & Lanius, R.A. (in press). Self-referential Processing in Women with PTSD Related to Childhood Abuse: Affective and Neural Response. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, & Policy.

Frewen, P. A., Dozois, D.J.A., Neufeld, R.W.J., Densmore, M., Lane, R. D., Stevens, T.C., & Lanius, R. A. (2010). Individual differences in trait mindfulness predict dorsal medial prefrontal and amygdala response during emotional imagery: An fMRI study. Personality & Individual Differences, 49, 479-484.

Frewen, P. A., Dozois, D.J.A., Neufeld, R.W.J., Densmore, M., Stevens, T.C., & Lanius, R. A. (2010). Social emotions and emotional valence during imagery in women with PTSD: Affective and neural correlates. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, & Policy, 2, 145-157.

Frewen, P. A., Dozois, D.J.A., Neufeld, R.W.J., Densmore, M., Stevens, T.C., & Lanius, R. A. (2010). Neuroimaging social emotional processing in women: fMRI study of script-driven imagery. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience.

Frewen, P. A., & Lanius, R. A. (2010). Non-idiographic Emotional Script-driven Imagery in PTSD:Impact of Priming of Episodic Recall and Self-Referential Processing. Journal of Psychology (Zeitschrift für Psychologie mit Zeitschrift für angewandte Psychologie), 218, 89-95.

Bluhm, R. L., Williamson, P.C., Osuch, E.A., Frewen, P. A., Stevens, T.C., Boksman, K., Neufeld, R.W.J., Theberge, J., & Lanius, R. A. (2009). Alterations in default network connectivity in posttraumatic stress disorder related to early-life trauma. Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, 34, 187-194.

Frewen, P. A., & Lanius, R. A. (2008). Frontal cortex. In G. Reyes, J. D. Elhai, & J. Ford (Eds). Encyclopedia of Psychological Trauma (pp. 286-290). Hoboke, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons.

Frewen, P. A., Evans, E., Maraj, N., Dozois, D. J. A., & Partridge, K. (2008). Letting Go: Mindfulness and Negative Automatic Thinking. Cognitive Therapy & Research, 32, 758-774.

Frewen, P.A., Brinker, J., Martin, R.A., & Dozois, D.J.A. (2008). Humor styles and personality-vulnerability to depression. Humor: An International Journal, 21, 179-195.

Frewen, P. A., Dozois, D. J. A., Lanius, R. A., & Neufeld, R. W. J. (2008). Meta-analysis of alexithymia in posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 21, 243-246.

Frewen, P.A., Lanius, R.A. Dozois, D. J. A., Neufeld, R. W. J., Pain, C., & Densmore, M. (2008). Clinical and Neural Correlates of Alexithymia in PTSD. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 171-181.

Frewen, P. A., Lanius, R. A., Lane, R., Neufeld, R. W. J., & Densmore, M. (2008). Neural Correlates of Individual Differences in Levels of Emotional Awareness: Implications for PTSD and Resilience. Psychosomatic Medicine, 70, 27-31.

Frewen, P.A., Dozois, D. J. A., & Lanius, R. A. (2008). Neuroimaging Studies of the Outcome of Psychological Interventions for Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Empirical & Methodological Review. Clinical Psychology Review, 28, 229-247.

Frewen, P. A., Dozois, D. J. A., Joanisse, M. A., Neufeld, R. W. J. (2008). Selective Attention to Rewarding and Threatening Stimuli: Neural-Network Modeling of Probe Detection-Latency Research. Clinical Psychology Review, 28, 308-338.

Lanius, R. A., Frewen, P. A., Girotti, M., Neufeld, R. W. J. & Densmore, M. (2008). Neural Correlates of Trauma Script-Imagery in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With and Without Comorbid Major Depression: A Functional MRI Investigation. Journal of Psychiatric Research: Neuroimaging, 155, 45-56.

Hopper, J.W., Frewen, P. A., Sack, M., Lanius, R.A., & van der Kolk, B.A. (2007). Development of the Responses to Script-Driven Imagery Scale (RSDI): An Assessment of State PTSD and Dissociative Symptoms for Psychobiological and Treatment Outcome Research. Journal of Psychopathology & Behavioural Assessment, 29, 249-268.

Hopper, J. W., Frewen, P. A., van der Kolk, B. A., & Lanius, R. A. (2007). Dimensional Analysis of Responses to Script-Driven Trauma Imagery in PTSD: Neural Correlates of Re-experiencing, Avoidance, and Dissociation. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 20, 1-13.

Frewen, P.A., & Dozois, D.J.A. (2006). Social, achievement, and control factors in personality vulnerability to depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 30, 1-17.

Frewen, P.A., & Dozois, D.J.A. (2006). Self-worth appraisal of life events and Beck’s congruency model of depression vulnerability. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 20, 231-240.

Frewen, P. A., & Lanius, R. A. (2006). Toward a Psychobiology of Posttraumatic Self-Dysregulation: Re-experiencing, Hyperarousal, Dissociation, and Emotional Numbing. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1071, 110-124.

Frewen, P. A., & Lanius, R. A. (2006). Neurobiology of dissociation: Unity and disunity in mind-body-brain. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 29, 113-128.

Dozois, D. J. A., Frewen, P. A., & Covin, R. (2006). Anxiety disorders. In P. Firestone, P., & D. J. A. Dozois (Eds.). Abnormal Psychology: Perspectives (3rd ed.). Toronto, Ontario: Prentice-Hall.

Dozois, D.J.A., & Frewen, P.A. (2006). Specificity of cognitive structure in depression and social phobia: A comparison of interpersonal and achievement content. Journal of Affective Disorders, 90, 101-109.

Dozois, D.J.A., Frewen, P.A., & Covin, R.A. (2006). Cognitive theories. In M. Hersen & J. C. Thomas (Series Eds.), J. C. Thomas & D. L. Segal (Vol Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of personality and psychopathology: Volume 1. Personality and everyday functioning. New York: Wiley.

Frewen, P.A., & Dozois, D.J.A. (2005). Recognition and interpretation of facial expressions in dysphoric women. Journal of Psychopathology & Behavioral Assessment, 27, 305-315.

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Psychobiology of Trauma-related Disorders

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