Lee Baer Ph.D.

Lee Baer, Ph.D., is an author, clinical psychologist, researcher, and Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, with three decades of pioneering research in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and other anxiety and depressive disorders.

His award-winning book Getting Control, was the first to describe successful non-drug treatment for OCD, and has been used at leading OCD treatment programs around the world for more than 20 years. His book The Imp of the Mind was the first to describe how to recognize and treat disabling intrusive violent, sexual and blasphemous thoughts.

Dr. Baer co-founded the OCD treatment and research programs at both the Massachusetts General Hospital and at McLean Hospital. He continues to practice, train future leaders in psychology and psychiatry and to conduct research full-time. His extensive research on OCD and other topics in psychology has been featured in major newspapers, and he has made numerous TV and radio appearances.