Martin M Antony

Dr. Antony is professor in the Department of Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is also professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. Previously, he was founding director of both the Anxiety Treatment and Research Clinic and the Psychology Residency Program at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, and provincial clinical lead of the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program. He is a fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and a past president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the Canadian Psychological Association. He has published 34 books and over 300 scientific articles and chapters in areas related to cognitive behavior therapy and anxiety-related disorders. He has given more than 500 presentations to audiences across four continents, and has been interviewed, featured, or quoted more than 450 times in various print, radio, television, and online media outlets, including CBC, CNN, Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, New York Times, Washington Post, Scientific American Mind, and many others.

Research Synopsis

Understanding and treating anxiety-related disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and specific phobias 

Understanding and treating clinical perfectionism 

Role of cognitive factors, behavioral factors (e.g., reinforcement), and biological factors in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders and perfectionism 

Evidence-based psychological treatment 

Evidence-based psychological assessment 

Recent Publications

Constantino, M.J., Coyne, A.E., Gaines, A.N., Goodwin, B.J., Muir, H.J., Critchfield, K.L., Westra, H.A., & Antony, M.M. (in press). Therapist verification of patient self-concepts as a responsive precondition for early alliance development and subsequent introject change. Psychotherapy Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2023.2297995

Gaines, A.N., Constantino, M.J., Coyne, A.E., Farber, B.A., Hart, N.J., Kmetz, H.M., Westra, H.A., & Antony, M.M. (in press). Do patients internalize the positive regard they are offered? A dyadic test of a Rogerian condition. Psychotherapy Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2024.2350681

Santiago, V.A., Fredborg, B.K., Lenton-Brym, A.P., & Antony, M.M. (in press). Dating app use and everyday discrimination among bisexual and heterosexual individuals. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality.

Rowa, K., & Antony, M.M. (2025). Social anxiety disorder (2nd ed.). Hogrefe.

Carney, A.E., Kandasamy, K., Lenton-Brym, A.P., Halbreiner, A.M., Schneider, L., & Antony, M.M. (2024). An investigation of the patterns of association between anxiety symptom clusters and mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 56(3), 187-194. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000371

Kim, A.J., Sherry, S.B., Mackinnon, S.P., Antony, M.M., Lee-Baggley, D., Hahn, C., Wang, G.A., & Stewart, S. H. (2024). When love hurts: Testing the stress generation hypothesis between depressive symptoms, conflict behaviors, and breakup rumination in romantic couples. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 43(2), 180-206. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2024.43.2.180

Lenton-Brym, A.P., Monson, C.M., Spaniol, J., Shoychet, G., & Antony, M.M. (in press). Negative affect following dating application use is predicted by social anxiety symptoms and match rate. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

McCabe, R.E., Capobianco, L., & Antony, M.M. (2024). Anxiety and fear related disorders: Social anxiety disorder and specific phobia. In A. Tasman, M.B. Riba, R.D. Alarcón, C.A. Alfonso, S. Kanba, D. Lecic-Tosevski, E.M. Ndetei, C.H. Ng, & T.G. Schulze (Eds.), Tasman’s psychiatry (5th ed., pp. 1995-2029). Springer.

Montemarano, V., Kim, H.S., & Antony, M.M. (2024). Buying disorder: A narrative review of the neuropsychological evidence to inform its classification. Current Psychology, 43(10), 9336-9354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-05040-y

Shoychet, G., Lenton-Brym, A.P., & Antony, M.M. (2023). The impact of COVID-19 anxiety on quality of life in Canadian adults: The moderating role of intolerance of uncertainty and health locus of control. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 55(4), 300-312. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000331

Wilson, G.A., Cassin, S.E., Antony, M.M. (2023). Development and validation of a new measure of fear of negative and positive evaluation. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 45, 1127-1140. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-023-10041-z

Wilson, G.A., Malivoire, B.L., Cassin, S.E., & Antony, M.M. (2023). A mixed methods investigation of reasons underlying fear of positive evaluation. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 30(2), 473-485. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2818

Pawluk, E.J., Musielak, N., Milosevic, I., Rowa, K., Shnaider, P., Schneider, L.H., Antony, M.M., & McCabe, R.E. (2022). Psychometric properties of the Diagnostic Assessment Research Tool (DART) Self-Report Screener for DSM-5 mental disorders. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 44(4), 1169-1176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-021-09895-y

Roberge, P., Marx, P., Couture, J., Carrier, N., Benoît, A., Provencher, M.D., Antony, M.M., & Norton, P.J. (2022). French adaptation and validation of the Panic Disorder Severity Scale Self-Report. BMC Psychiatry, 22:434. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03989-x

Roberge, P., Provencher, M.D., Gaboury, I., Gosselin, P., Vasiliadis, H.-M., Benoît, A., Carrier, N., Antony, M.M., Chaillet, N., Houle, J., Hudon, C., & Norton, P.J. (2022). Group transdiagnostic cognitive-behavior therapy for anxiety disorders: A pragmatic randomized clinical trial. Psychological Medicine, 52(13), 2460-2470. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720004316

Rogojanski, J., Zeifman, R.J., Antony, M.M., Walker, J.R., Monson, C.M., and the Mobilizing Minds Research Group (2022). Evaluation of a decision aid for the treatment of adult depression. Journal of American College Health, 70(6), 1634-1643. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2020.1817034

Schneider, L.H., Pawluk, E.J., Milosevic, I., Shnaider, P., Rowa, K., Antony, M.M., Musielak, N., & McCabe, R.E. (2022). The Diagnostic Assessment Research Tool (DART) in action: A preliminary evaluation of a semistructured interview for DSM-5 disorders. Psychological Assessment, 34(1), 21-29. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001059

Wilson, G.A., Malivoire, B.L., Cassin, S.E., Antony, M.M. (2022). An investigation of emotional and cognitive responses to positive, negative, and neutral social evaluation using a face-to-face social interaction task in social anxiety disorder. International Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 15(3), 255-276. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41811-022-00137-x

Appointments

Professor, Department of Psychology, Toronto Metropolitan University