Anxiety Disorders Center

Suzanne Meunier, Ph.D. Staff Psychologist, Anxiety Disorders Center Phone: (860) 545-7685 Fax: (860) 545-7156 Email: smeunie@harthosp.org

Dr. Meunier received her Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas.  She completed her predoctoral internship at West Virginia University School of Medicine and Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Institute of Living.  Her research interests include cognitive-behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders, “not just right” feelings in obsessive-compulsive disorder, the role of disgust reactions in psychopathology, and the cognitive processes that influence the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders and compulsive hoarding.  Clinically, she is interested in obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and phobias.

Representative Publications:

 Tolin, D.F., & Meunier, S.A. (2007). Contamination and decontamination. In Abramowitz, D. McKay S., & Taylor, J.S. (Eds.), Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Subtypes and spectrum conditions (pp. 3-18). New York: Elsevier.

Olatunji, B.O., Sawchuk, C.N., Deacon, B.J., Tolin, D.F., Williams, N.L., Lilienfeld, S., Meuiner, S.A., Lohr, J.M., & Connolly K. (2005). The Anxiety Sensitivity Profile revisited: Factor structure and psychometric properties in two non-clinical samples. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 19, 603-625.

Sawchuk, C.N., Lohr, J.M., Westendorf, D.H., Meunier, S.A., & Tolin, D.F. (2002). Emotional responding to fearful and disgusting stimuli in specific phobics.  Behaviour Research and Therapy, 40, 1031-1046.

Sawchuk, C.N., Meunier, S.A., Lohr, J.M., & Westendorf, D.H. (2002). Fear, disgust, and information processing in specific phobia: The application of signal detection theory.  Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 16, 495-510.

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