Louise Newman

Louise Newman has been appointed as Professor of Developmental Psychiatry and Director of the Monash University Centre for Developmental Psychiatry & Psychology since March 2009.  Prior to this appointment she was the Chair of Perinatal and Infant Psychiatry at the University of Newcastle and the previous Director of the New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry. Professor Newman is a practising infant psychiatrist with expertise in the area of disorders of early parenting and attachment difficulties in infants. She has undertaken research into the issues confronting parents with borderline personality disorder and histories of early trauma and the impact on infant neurobiological and psychological development. Her current research focuses on the evaluation of infant-parent interventions in high-risk populations, the concept of parental reflective functioning in mothers with borderline disorders and the neurobiology of parenting disturbance. She is currently planning research into the impact on child development of sexualisation in the media.

Professor Newman is involved in the education of psychiatrists and a range of mental health professionals in the areas of attachment theory, psychoanalytic and development theory and infant-parent psychotherapies.

Professor Newman is involved in advocacy for refugees and asylum seekers and is the Convener of the Alliance of Health Professional for asylum seekers. She represents the RANZCP on issues relating to asylum seekers mental health.

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