About James
I bring clinical, academic and consulting experience to a practice that is always centred on the individual - thoughtful, confidential, and tailored to your needs.
My clinical training is extensive. I have worked as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at Los Angeles County–USC Hospital and the Austin Hospital Adolescent Unit, and have maintained a private practice in Melbourne for many years. My formal training includes the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis (Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis), Clinical Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Victorian Department of Health), and Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Monash University).
My work has always combined practice with teaching and research. After teaching at secondary and tertiary levels in Australia, I held academic and research appointments at the University of Southern California, American University Graduate School (Washington D.C.), and Georgetown University Medical School, where I received a National Institutes of Mental Health teaching and research award. I have presented and published widely for organisations including the Australian Psychological Society, American Psychological Association, Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis, and the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations, among others. I am a Licensed Mental Health First Aid Instructor, and a board member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations (ISPSO).
Some examples of my presentations and publications covering education, clinical and consulting aspects of my career are:
Complexes of the Family and Organisation: A Case Study of The ‘Organisation in the Mind’, International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations 2011
Optimism bias: A defence against lack of presumed governance knowledge of project, governance groups, the International Society for Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations, (Granada Spain)
Locus of Control and Vocational Interest, J. Walker and P. London, The Australian Psychological Society, Eleventh Annual Conference, Armadale NSW
Measuring Clinical Interviewing Effectiveness: An Adaptation of the Flanders Interaction Technique, California Psychology Association, and APhA Journal
Why Well Managed Projects Fail and What to Do about it, International Society for Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations Annual Conference 2012 (California).
The Fear Survey Schedule: Face Validity Interference, California Psychology Association
The Learning of Affect:A measurement Approach in Clinical Areas, California Society of Educational Program Auditors and Evaluations,
Utilization of basic and clinical health science personnel in a team approach for the achievement of competency in therapeutics, Medical Education (with Myron Weiner)
