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An Interview with Dr Sue Carter on Oxitocin and Social Monogamy
Dr. Sue C Carter, Ms Deborah Gould

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Dr Sue Carter is a neuroscientist and Co-Director of the Brain-Body Centre in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois. Her primary focus is on the r ole of the hormone oxytocin in social bonding and, by extension, on the positive impact of social connection on physical and mental health through the release of oxytocins during such interactions. Her work is presented within the theoretical context of Polyvagal Theory, a perspective on social engagement that is presented in the interview with Dr Stephen Porges.

Conflit of interest: none disclosed
Recorded at the NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS)
August 2008, New South Wales, Australia.
Visit STARTTS at : www.STARTTS.org.au

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Dr. Sue C Carter

C. Sue Carter, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Director of the Brain Body Center at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her research program focuses on the neurobiology of social behaviour, including the role of oxytocin in facilitating social bonding and social support.

Dr. Carter also has examined endocrine changes associated with human behaviour, including studies that demonstrate the physiological benefits of lactation to the mother. She has published more than 225 papers and has edited or co-edited five volumes including the Integrative Neurobiology of Affiliation (MIT Press, 1999) and Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis (MIT Press, 2005). She is past president of the International Behavioural Neuroscience Society.

Ms Deborah Gould

Deborah Gould is a Clinical Psychologist, trained in South Africa in the 1980s. She worked in various contexts between qualifying in 1988 and migrating to Australia in 1997. This included 4 years of lecturing and supervision at the University of Cape Town, 10 years in a psychotherapy practice and 4 years providing assessment, psychotherapy and clinical supervision in a large Community Mental Health Service in Soweto.

Since moving to Australia in 1998, she has worked at the Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS), as a Clinical Psychologist and clinical supervisor. The model used is short term and focussed on the reduction of the impacts of the trauma of war, torture, loss and resettlement and acculturation on people’s wellbeing. In her role as a Clinical Supervisor over the past 9 years, she has been involved in reflection on and treatment of a great number and variety of refugee clients. It is from here that she draws most of her inspiration and knowledge for this presentation.