Edward C. Wright, Ph.D., ABPP, is a Board Certified clinical psychologist. His current position is with Massachusetts General Hospital within the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders (CATSD) and CBT Program. Through this position, he is concurrently an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He completed a PhD in clinical psychology at George Mason University. He completed a 2-year postdoctoral training fellowship with STRONG STAR along with a previous fellowship at the University of Texas at San Antonio Counseling Center. He completed his predoctoral internship at the Georgia Institute of Technology Counseling Center. He has conducted research in the areas of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and computer-mediated communication. He currently specializes in Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) for combat-related PTSD, has extensive training, and is nationally recognized as a certified PE supervisor through the University of Pennsylvania Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety. His most recent role was providing PE in the nation's largest study on the use of PE for combat-related PTSD in active duty Soldiers, at Fort Hood, TX, as part of the STRONG STAR PTSD Research Consortium. (Principle Investigator: Edna Foa, PhD). His other included included assisting in the development of an internet-based PTSD protocol, providing cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia, and providing independent evaluations for STRONG STAR studies.
Listed skills include Psychotherapy, Psychological Assessment, Psychology, Mental Health, and 11 others.