Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the Conversational Model - OCD.

Emeritus Professor Russell Meares

After having been regarded as an intractable disorder for many years, a certain optimism has been generated about the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - OCD.   Cognitive behaviour therapy has been shown to have an effect.  However, a significant number of patients drop out of this therapy or are not helped by it. 

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Emeritus Professor Russell Meares

 Russell Meares is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Sydney University and Director of Mental Health Sciences at Westmead Hospital in Sydney. 

 - Trained at Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospitals, 1963 -1968, co-founding with Robert Hobson the Conversational Model of psychotherapy. 

 - Founder of the academic department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, at the Austin Hospital 1969. 

 - Foundation Chair of Psychiatry of Sydney University at Westmead Hospital, 1981, Foundation President of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy in 1989.

His most recent books are: “Intimacy and Alienation”, 2000; “Metaphor of Play”, revised and enlarged edition, 2005.  Awarded Distinguished Psychiatrist of the Year, at UCLA, 2007 and the RANZCP NSW Branch, Meritorious Service Award, 2009.

 

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