Jessica Price

December 1, 2018

Time to read: 7 minutes

Why did I decide to write this piece? I am 6 months into working in a private practice, having to balance the demands and difficulties that come with be...

 Dr Sanil Rege

March 26, 2018

Time to read: 10–12 minutes

In early February 2018, the Australian government published their health spending figures for 2015/2016, which showed that $9 billion was spent on menta...

 Dr Sanil Rege, Dr James Graham

July 24, 2017

Time to read: 7 minutes

Psychological interventions are evidence based first line treatments for many psychiatric disorders with evidence that therapy can alleviate mental dist...

February 9, 2017

Time to read: 5 minutes

Psychotic experiences are experiences involving thoughts, mood and perceptions. Abnormalities in these domains can give rise to persecutory delusions, a...

 Dr Neil Jeyasingam

January 30, 2017

Time to read: 5 minutes

Donald Trump’s successful bid for the American presidency has shocked the world. Countless media campaigns regarding his character and temperament hav...

 Dr Tim Doyle

August 10, 2016

Time to read: 4 minutes

As a clinical psychologist, it is my experience that psychological assessments – involving the use of comprehensive psychometric measures – are the ...

 Dr Neil Jeyasingam

August 5, 2016

Time to read: 3 minutes

Pokemon Go was only launched a few weeks ago, but already boasts more users than Twitter. People all around the world are exploring streets, parks, and ...

 Dr Neil Jeyasingam

July 19, 2016

Time to read: 5 minutes

Psychiatry started with the meticulous classification of disorders of human behaviour, in the hope that, at some stage, there would be interventions tha...

May 21, 2016

Time to read: 1 minutes

  Countertransference is the response elicited in the therapist due to the patient’s unconscious projection of ...

May 21, 2016

Time to read: 1 minutes

  Transference is the phenomenon whereby we unconsciously transfer feelings and attitudes from a person or situation in the past on to a per...