Edward Johnson

• PSYC 7320 - Evidence-Based Psychotherapy
• PSYC 8090 - Clinical Supervision in Psychology

Dr. Ed Johnson completed his Honours BA in psychology at Queen’s University (1984), and his PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Waterloo (1991), where his dissertation examined the costs and benefits of self-deception. During his doctoral studies he completed a clinical internship year in Winnipeg in the department of Clinical Health Psychology at the University of Manitoba. Between 1991-1993 he completed a post-doctoral fellowship at OISE/UT where he explored children’s understanding of self-deception from a theory of mind framework. Dr. Johnson returned to Winnipeg in 1993 to work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, where he and the students in his lab have explored adaptive (e.g., self-compassion) and maladaptive (e.g., shame, envy, narcissism) responses to ego-threats. Dr. Johnson also has a special interest in clinical supervision which he has practiced and taught to students and colleagues, and written about in articles and a textbook. His teaching has spanned courses in the undergraduate (e.g., Psychopathology, Self-regulation and health) and graduate clinical programs (e.g., Clinical Research Design, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Ethics and Professional Issues, Foundations of Evidence-Based Treatment, Clinical Supervision in Psychology). His service contributions include his work as Director of the Clinical Psychology Training program, President of the Canadian Council of Professional Psychology Programs, and member of the Canadian Psychological Association’s accreditation panel. 

• PhD (Clinical Psychology), University of Waterloo, 1991
• BA Honours (Psychology), Queen's University, 1984

Research interests

• Ego-threat: Its sources (narcissism, envy, shame, anxiety, depression) and how to soothe it with self-compassion
• Clinical supervision: How it is learned and best practices
• The teaching and learning of psychotherapy

Research affiliations/groups

• Director, Soothing Ego - Threats and Supervision (SETS) Lab 

• Johnson, E. A. (in press). Working together in Clinical Supervision (2nd ed.). Business Education Press.
• Martin, D. G., & Johnson, E. A. (2025). Counseling and Therapy Skills (5th edition). Waveland Press.
• Setlack, J., Brais, N., Keough, M., & Johnson, E. A. (2021). Workplace violence and psychopathology in paramedics and firefighters: Mediated by posttraumatic cognitions. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 53(3), 211-220.  
• Stewart, D. & Johnson, E. A. (2021). The Relational-Expressive Dual-Continuum Model of Clinical Supervisor Training. Training and Education in Professional Psychology. Advance online publication. 
• Johnson, E. A. (2019). Recommendations to Enhance Psychotherapy Supervision in Psychology. Canadian Psychology, 60, 290-301. 
• Neufeld, D. C., & Johnson, E. A. (2018). Narcissism’s relationship with envy: It’s complicated. In T. Hermann, A. Brunell, & J. Foster, (Eds.) The Handbook of Trait Narcissism: Key Advances, Research Methods, and Controversies (pp. 363-370). New York, NY: Springer.
• Johnson, E. A. (2017). Working together in clinical supervision: A guide for supervisors and supervisees. Momentum Press.
• Neufeld, D. C., & Johnson, E. A. (2016). Burning with envy? Dispositional and situational influences on envy in grandiose and vulnerable narcissism. Journal of Personality, 84, 685-696. 
• Johnson, E. A., & O’Brien, K. A. (2013). Self-compassion soothes the savage ego-threat system: Effects on negative affect, shame, rumination, and depressive symptoms. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 32, 939-963.
• Johnson, E. A. (1997). Children's understanding of epistemic conduct in self-deception and other false belief stories. Child Development, 68, 1117-1132.
• Johnson, E. A. (1995). Self-deceptive coping: Adaptive only in ambiguous contexts. Journal of Personality, 63, 759-791.

• 2022 - Department of Psychology Teaching Award, University of Manitoba
• 2017 - Merit Award for Service, University of Manitoba
• 2001 - Merit Award for Service, University of Manitoba