Gregory S. Chasson
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
Gregory S. Chasson is a licensed clinical psychologist and the director of Behavioral Interventions for the Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders Clinic. His clinical work, research, and training focus on obsessive-compulsive spectrum conditions (including obsessive-compulsive disorder and hoarding disorder), autism spectrum conditions, and anxiety disorders.
He is the co-author of Advances in Psychotherapy: Hoarding Disorder (Hogrefe Publishing, 2019), a book to help train professionals in delivering cognitive-behavioral therapy for hoarding. His research has been published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, Clinical Psychology Review, Health Psychology Review, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Depression and Anxiety, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, and Comprehensive Psychiatry.
He received his BA in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, after which he earned a PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Houston. He trained for three years at Harvard Medical School, first as part of a one-year internship at McLean Hospital and then for two years as a postdoctoral clinical and research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Most recently, Chasson was an associate professor of psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor of psychology at Towson University in Maryland.