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  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Mark A. Lumley is affiliated with Wayne State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and psychology, with a focus on psychiatry and mental health as well as clinical psychology. Their work encompasses pharmacology, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach.

The main topics addressed in Lumley's research include:

  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments

Lumley has published in several notable venues with frequent appearances in:

  • Journal of Pain
  • Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • Pain
  • European Journal of Pain
  • JAMA Psychiatry

Noteworthy recent papers include:

  • "Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain," 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Emotion regulation and the salience network: a hypothetical integrative model of fibromyalgia," 2022, Nature Reviews Rheumatology
  • "Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Functional Somatic Disorders: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials," 2020, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • "Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy for functional somatic disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of within-treatment effects," 2021, Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • "Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy Achieves Greater Pain Reduction than Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Older Adults with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Preliminary Randomized Comparison Trial," 2020, Pain Medicine

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Howard Schubiner
  • Jolin B. Yamin
  • Shoshana Krohner
  • Yoni K. Ashar
  • Tor D. Wager

Lumley was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Pain and emotion: a biopsychosocial review of recent research.

    Mark A. Lumley;Jay L. Cohen;Jay L. Cohen;George S. Borszcz;Annmarie Cano

  • The assessment of alexithymia in medical settings: implications for understanding and treating health problems.

    Mark A. Lumley;Lynn C. Neely;Amanda J. Burger

  • How are alexithymia and physical illness linked? A review and critique of pathways

    Mark A. Lumley;Laurence Stettner;Francine Wehmer

  • Empathy across the adult lifespan: Longitudinal and experience-sampling findings.

    Daniel Grühn;Kristine Rebucal;Manfred Diehl;Mark Lumley

  • Health effects of emotional disclosure in rheumatoid arthritis patients.

    Jane E. Kelley;Mark A. Lumley;James C. C. Leisen

  • Trauma Resilience Training for Police: Psychophysiological and Performance Effects

    Bengt B. Arnetz;Dana C. Nevedal;Mark A. Lumley;Lena Backman

  • Pain and emotion: new research directions.

    Francis J. Keefe;Mark Lumley;Timothy Anderson;Thomas Lynch

  • Stress management through written emotional disclosure improves academic performance among college students with physical symptoms.

    Mark A. Lumley;Kimberly M. Provenzano

  • Assessing alexithymia and related emotional ability constructs using multiple methods: Interrelationships among measures.

    Mark A. Lumley;Britta J. Gustavson;R. Ty Partridge;Gisela Labouvie-Vief

  • Age and gender differences in cardiac reactivity and subjective emotion responses to emotional autobiographical memories.

    Gisela Labouvie-Vief;Mark A. Lumley;Elizabeth Jain;Hillary Heinze

  • Aspects of social and emotional competence in adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    Sara R. Friedman;Lisa J. Rapport;Mark Lumley;Angela Tzelepis

  • For whom does it work? Moderators of the effects of written emotional disclosure in a randomized trial among women with chronic pelvic pain.

    Sally A. Norman;Mark A. Lumley;John A. Dooley;Michael P. Diamond

  • Emotional awareness and expression therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and education for fibromyalgia: a cluster-randomized controlled trial.

    Mark A. Lumley;Howard Schubiner;Nancy A. Lockhart;Kelley M. Kidwell

  • Alexithymia, Emotional Disclosure, and Health: A Program of Research

    Mark A. Lumley

  • Emotions and emotional approach and avoidance strategies in fibromyalgia.

    Henriët van Middendorp;Mark A. Lumley;Johannes W.G. Jacobs;Lorenz J.P. van Doornen

  • Child Behavior Problems and Family Functioning as Predictors of Adherence and Glycemic Control in Economically Disadvantaged Children with Type 1 Diabetes: A Prospective Study

    Dana M. Cohen;Mark A. Lumley;Sylvie Naar-King;Ty Partridge

  • Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Yoni K Ashar;Yoni K Ashar;Alan Gordon;Howard Schubiner;Howard Schubiner;Christie Uipi

  • Alexithymia, social support and health problems.

    Mark A. Lumley;Theresa Ovies;Laurence Stettner;Francine Wehmer

  • Family factors related to alexithymia characteristics.

    Mark A. Lumley;Camey Mader;Jennifer Gramzow;Kate Papineau

  • The relationships of cognitive coping and pain control beliefs to pain and adjustment among African‐American and Caucasian women with rheumatoid arthritis

    Margaret S. Jordan;Mark A. Lumley;James C C Leisen

  • Predicting Children's Presurgical Anxiety and Subsequent Behavior Changes

    Mark A. Lumley;Barbara G. Melamed;Linda A. Abeles

Frequent Co-Authors

Bengt B. Arnetz
Bengt B. Arnetz Michigan State University
Judith E. Arnetz
Judith E. Arnetz Michigan State University
Timothy Roehrs
Timothy Roehrs Henry Ford Health System
Francis J. Keefe
Francis J. Keefe Duke University
Rinie Geenen
Rinie Geenen Utrecht University
Lisa J. Rapport
Lisa J. Rapport Wayne State University
Thomas Roth
Thomas Roth Wayne State University
Johannes W. J. Bijlsma
Johannes W. J. Bijlsma Utrecht University
Annmarie Cano
Annmarie Cano Wayne State University
Gisela Labouvie-Vief
Gisela Labouvie-Vief University of Geneva

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