Biographical Notes

Julia Blum lives in Melbourne and is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and accredited mental health social worker. She has been in private practice for over 10 years and works in Carnegie in a group practice. Julia has an ongoing interest in the impact of early trauma on people as they age and in working clinically with older people, who form part of her adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice. Julia is a member of the Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists and the Australian Association of Social Workers.

Carol Bolton is a foundation member of APPWA, and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist now retired but still interested.

Wayne Featherstone is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Melbourne. He teaches counselling skills and psychoanalytic theory in a number of tertiary settings and recently submitted a Ph.D. on the aesthetic domain of psychoanalysis at the University of South Australia. His primary theoretical interests are with post Kleinian and post Bionian theory, and also with various Italian authors working with Field Theory, as well as the emerging field of Neuropsychoanalysis. Wayne worked for 25 years in various adult psychiatric settings after originally training as a secondary teacher and then retraining as a social worker and completing the VAPP psychoanalytic psychotherapy with adults course in 1987. He is a past president of the VAPP and currently serves on the training committee.

Marita Lowry is a Child and Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Mental Health Social Worker who also holds a Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Literature. She currently has a private practice in the inner west of Melbourne, and works part-time in schools, in addition to a sessional teaching position at Monash University in the Master of Mental Health Sciences, teaching the Psychoanalytic and Developmental Theories 2 Unit.

Pamela Nathan is a forensic and clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Kew.

Campbell Paul is a Consultant Infant and Child Psychiatrist at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and Honorary Principal Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne. At the University he and colleagues have established a Graduate Diploma and a Masters Course in Infant and Parent Mental Health. This course developed out of his longstanding experience in paediatric consultation liaison psychiatry and work in infant parent psychotherapy. He has a special interest in the understanding of the inner world of the baby, particularly as it informs therapeutic work with infants and their parents. With colleagues he has developed models of working in therapeutic groups with troubled parents and infants. He has been a consultant psychiatrist at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service has also been involved in the establishment of the Koori Kids Mental Health Network. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the World Association for Infant Mental Health and he has been a participant in and organizer of a number of local and international conferences and activities in the field of infant mental health.

Paul Schimmel is a psychoanalyst (Australian Psychoanalytical Society) and psychiatrist in private practice in Sydney. His book Sigmund Freud’s discovery of psychoanalysis: conquistador and thinker was published by Routledge in 2014.

Frances Thomson-Salo trained with the British Psychoanalytical Society, and is past President of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society. She is on the faculty for the University of Melbourne Masters in Infant and Parent Mental Health, is a Consultant Infant Mental Health clinician at the Royal Women’s Hospital, an Honorary Fellow of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and a child psychotherapist at the Royal Children’s Hospital. She has published on child psychoanalysis and infant mental health and is an International Journal of Psychoanalysis Board member, and a member of the international advisory board of the Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China journal.

Maurice Whelan grew up in Ireland. He is a psychoanalyst and writer. He has written books on education, literature and psychoanalysis. Boat People is his first novel. Since 1992 he has lived in Sydney.