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THE CANNAN INSTITUTE LIMITED
1220 Creek Road
PO Box 24
CARINA, BRISBANE, QLD 4152
The Cannan Institute Limited is a non-profit mental health organisation, which has a research and educational charter. It endeavours to sponsor or convene conferences and seminars which tackle substantive issues of both theoretical and clinical interest.
Conferences in recent years convened by The Cannan Institute include, "Blind to Betrayal: Forgetting, Unawareness and Interpersonal Trauma", featuring Professor Jennifer Freyd and held at the Bardon Conference Centre, Brisbane on 23rd February 2002, "Boundaries", featuring Professor Glen Gabbard, opened by the Queensland Health Minister, Wendy Edmond, and held at the Sheraton Hotel, Brisbane on 13th and 14th April 2002, and, with The Delphi Centre, the international conference on trauma, attachment and dissociation, "Transforming Trauma: Critical, Controversial and Core Issues", held at The Grand Hyatt, Melbourne on 12th-14th September 2003. All these conferences tackled major contemporary issues of particular interest to mental health professionals, but also of great relevance to the wider health, legal and education communities etc. There was significant press interest in these events.
The Cannan Institute Limited has been involved in a number of research projects in which a substantial amount of the research has been carried out within Belmont Hospital. Such research projects include a large body of work examining cognitive inhibition in Dissociative Identity Disorder (Dorahy, M.J., Irwin, H.J. & Middleton, W.), auditory hallucinations (Hargreaves, L., Dorahy, M.J. & Middleton. W.), cerebral interhemispheric switching in Dissociative Identity Disorder (Pettigrew, J. & Middleton, W.), the patterns of changes in cerebral hemispheric switching with E.C.T., (Pettigrew, J. & Prowacki, S.), and patterns of major road incidents in patients with D.I.D. (Antoce, G., Middleton, W. & Dorahy, M.J.) etc.
The Cannan Institute Limited Board consists of Dr Georgiana Antoce (Treasurer), Dr Jim Dodds, Dr Michael Martin, Associate Professor Warwick Middleton (Chair), Dr Mark Spelman (Secretary), Dr Enno Taemets, Dr John Thearle and Dr Al Unwin. The patron of the Institute is Sir Llew Edwards. The Institute has been closely involved in an ongoing way with the planning of the conference series, "Complex Trauma: New developments in the treatment of personality and stress disorders, attachment disturbance and relational dysfunction", that will be presented by Assoc. Prof. John Briere and sees its association with such projects as central to its charter.
For further information on The Cannan Institute Limited, write to
Mrs JuneWatson
The Cannan Institute Limited,
Belmont Hospital, PO Box 24 Carina, Qld 4152
Or alternatively contact Mrs June Watson on (07) 3398 0156
or email: June.Watson@affinityhealth.com.au |
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