Warwick Middleton

Warwick Middleton holds an appointment as Associate Professor in Psychiatry, University of Queensland.  He has made substantial and ongoing contributions to the bereavement and trauma literatures and with Dr Jeremy Butler authored the first published series in the Australian scientific literature detailing the abuse histories and clinical phenomenology of patients fulfilling diagnostic criteria for Dissociative Identity Disorder. 

He chairs The Cannan Institute as well as its research and conference organizing committees. In 1996 he was a principal architect in establishing Australia's first dedicated unit treating dissociative disorders. 

Assoc. Prof. Middleton is the director of the Trauma and Dissociation Unit, Belmont Hospital, is a member of the General Medical Assessment Tribunal, Q-Comp, and has a close association with the Vietnam Veterans Counselling Service. He has been in full time private practice since the beginning of 1995.

Warwick has had substantive ongoing involvement with research, writing, teaching (including seminar presentations) and supervision of health and research professionals.  He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation as well as being a regular reviewer for a number of psychiatric journals.  In recent times, he was the first author of a 5 article series on dissociative disorders published in Australasian Psychiatry during 2004-2005 and is the presenter of an ongoing series of well-attended seminars on themes to do with trauma and dissociation that have been convened in various Australian states since 2005.