Associate Professor Warwick Middleton MB BS, FRANZCP, MD.
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 was the author (with Dr Jeremy Butler) of 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 visiting role with the Vietnam Veterans Counselling Service. He has been in full time private practice since the beginning of 1995. He has had substantive ongoing involvement with research, writing, teaching 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 series of 5 papers on clinical and conceptual issues concerning dissociative disorders that appeared in Australasian Psychiatry. |