Mark A. Lumley, PhD

Mark A. Lumley, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. His research program is internationally recognized for understanding how emotional processes, such as the lack of emotional awareness, or “alexithymia,” and lack of emotional expression are related to pain and other somatic symptoms. Dr. Lumley has been funded by the NIH for many years and has over 210 peer-reviewed articles. He is on the editorial boards of numerous journals in health psychology, pain, and psychosomatic medicine and is a Fellow of multiple professional societies. Along with his colleagues and students, he has developed and tested various emotion-focused psychological interventions, such as written or spoken emotional disclosure and most recently Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), which has been supported by multiple clinical trials for chronic pain and related conditions.  He also has contributed to the development and testing of Pain Reprocessing Therapy. In collaboration with his close colleague, Dr. Howard Schubiner, he has trained hundreds of health professionals in EAET. In his clinical psychology doctoral program, Dr. Lumley has mentored nearly 50 doctoral students to the Ph.D. and received a national award for mentoring.