PUBLISHED / UNPUBLISHED PAPERS
AND PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Here you will find a list of published and unpublished papers and presentations up to 2014 in the organisational and socioanalytic fields and the field of psychotherapy. Contact me at norwood@iinet.net.au if you are interested in reading any of these papers.
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"Is there a psychoanalytic state of mind, and how is it formed?" Paper presented to the Victorian Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 3rd March 2014 |
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"What is the ‘proper object’ of contemporary object-relations psychotherapy?" Paper presented to the annual conference of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australasia, 2009 |
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"Hate your neighbour as you hate yourself: prejudice and the psycho-politics of divisiveness" ADC Special Report No. 35, A periodic publication of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission Inc, Melbourne, September 2007 |
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"Can you teach and feel?" Paper presented to the Catholic Education office of Western Australia Grief Awareness Day: 30th August 2006 |
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"The Psychotherapist as Executive: 'Managing' the psychotherapeutic relationship?" Friday Forum presentation for the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Western Australia, February 25th 2005 |
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"Defining the boundaries between personal and professional relationships" Seminar for the Renal Society Association, Perth, October 19th 2004 |
Bolton, P |
"More than medicine: The therapeutic relationship in general practice" Socioanalysis |
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"Mental Health Organisations and the problem of "Management". Paper presented to the OPUS Conference: ORGANISATIONAL AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS: International perspectives from Group Relations, Psychoanalysis and Systems Theory.21st & 22nd November 2003 at The Ambassadors Hotel, 12 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0HX |
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"Multi-level Application of Group Relations Conference Learning:Staff, Members and Sponsoring Organisations" Paper presented to the Tavistock/OFEK (Israel) International Conference: Group Relations Conferences: Reviewing and Exploring Theory, Design, Role-taking and Application. 6th - 9th November 2003, Hotel Villa Carlotta, Belgirate, Lake Maggiore, Italy |
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"Developing the 'Socioanalytic Mind' in Australia: A Socioanalytic Exploration of the Key Themes of Major Group Relations Programmes of the Australian Institute of Socioanalysis: 1987-2003" Organisational & Social Dynamics 3 (2): 267-276, 2003 |
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“Danger! Men at Work!” Paper presented at the Men’s Health and Wellbeing Association Education Forum, August 2002 |
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“What is the Value of Money?” Web-cam presentation on behalf of AISA for interPsic (Brazil) forum: PRÉ-ENCONTRO DE PSICOLOGIA E ECONOMIA fronteiras, convergências, dilemmas (Pre-encounter of Psychology and Economics: Frontiers, Convergences and dilemmas) August 24, 2002: http://www.psiecon.com.br/ |
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‘Wanted, Your Teenage Son!' Paedophilia, homosexuality and the organisational vilification of the “other”: a socioanalytic view on some dynamics of fundamentalism“. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations, Melbourne, 19-22 June 2002 archived at http://www.sba.oakland.edu/ispso/html/2002Symposium/shafer.htm |
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“What is the Value of Money?” Seminar for the Australian Institute of Socioanalysis series “Money Talks!” Melbourne, November 2001 |
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“An exploration of some diverse functions of electronic communication as social defence”. Paper presented to the 3rd Scientific Conference of the Australian Institute of Socioanalysis, Launceston, 2001 |
Jureidini J |
"Munchausen by proxy syndrome”: not only pathological parenting but also problematic doctoring? Medical Journal of Australia 178: 130-132, 2003 |
Shafer AT |
“Why do people create hoaxes?” ABC Radio, Perth, 19 October, 2001 Archived with audio at: http://www.abc.net.au/wa/stories/s397102.htm |
Jureidini J |
“Concealing and revealing: Munchausen-by-proxy Syndrome in the Medical System” Paper presented to the 3rd Scientific Conference of the Australian Institute of Socioanalysis, Launceston, 2001 |
Shafer AT |
“Disembodied managers and their disembodied staff” Seminar presentation in the series “E-management: Who’s in charge today?” for the Australian Institute of Socioanalysis, June 2000 |
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"Can we face some challenges for psychotherapists?" AISA News: The Newsletter of the Australian Institute of Socioanalysis (Number 14, Winter 2000) |
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“Back to the future: An analysis of key themes of AISA's National Group Relations Conferences and other major programmes: 1987-1999. Paper presented to the 2nd Scientific Conference of the Australian Institute of Socioanalysis, Canberra, 2000 |
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“The role of the ‘Conference Administrator” Paper presented to the 2nd Scientific Conference of the Australian Institute of Socioanalysis Canberra, 2000 |
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“More than medicine: The therapeutic relationship in general practice,” Draft unpublished report on an action research project on the non-medical factors in the doctor-patient relationship that contribute to health, for the Canterbury Division of General Practice & University of Sydney, Sydney, 2000 |
Shafer AT |
“Colonial Domination and the Struggle for Identity: a socioanalytic perspective.” Socioanalysis 1999 Vol 1, 1, pp34-47 |
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“Consulting Teams: Hidden Mirrors” Paper presented to the Inaugural Scientific Conference, Australian Institute of Socioanalysis,, Canberra, January 1998 |
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“How the primary task of an organisation shapes its culture.” Seminar for the Australian Psychological Society: College of Organisational Psychologists, October 22, 1997 |
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“Leopards and spots: grappling with change and development in a zoo culture”. Keynote speaker, Annual Conference of ARAZPA and ASZK, Auckland, March 16-20, 1997 |
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“Grappling with change and development in a zoo culture” AISA Occasional Paper, 1997 |
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Unravelling the Web of Coordination. Report for the Youth Affairs Council of Western Australia, June 1992 |
Shafer, AT |
“Managing Organisational Crises”, Invited presenter: SYNERGY ‘92 Conference, Orchard Hotel, Singapore, August 1992. |
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"Managing the Emotional Aspects of the Patient - Nurse Relationship" Invited Half-day seminar sponsored by Astra- Zenica Pharmaceuticals. May 29th 2004 |
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"Common Psychological Defences Against the Pain of working with Illness and Death" Invited Paper presented to the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia (Psycho-Oncology Section) 27th November 2003 |
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"Can the Professional be Personal? Managing relationships with ill and dying people." Invited Seminar for the St John of God Hospice, Murdoch, Perth. August 23rd 2004 |
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“Common Psychological Defences in Workers” Seminar for Psychotherapists and Counsellors Association of Western Australia, June 2002 |
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“Common Psychological Defences in People Working with Grief and Loss ” Invited Paper: National Association for Loss and Grief (NALAG) Annual Conference, Perth, October 2001: Archived at: http://www.griefaustralia.org/ |
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“Discussion of ‘Psychoanalysis and the Body-Mind Problem” invited discussant, Psychoanalysis, Narcissism and the Body, 6th Conference of the Brisbane Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, August 10-12, 2001 Archived at http://www.bcps.asn.au/conference/ |
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"Can we face some challenges for psychotherapists?" AISA News: The Newsletter of the Australian Institute of Socioanalysis |
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“Is it ‘all in the mind’? A psychodynamic perspective on some psychosomatic conditions”. APPWA 2000 - Seminar Series of the Association for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy of WA, June 2000 |
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“Colonial Domination and the Struggle for Identity: a socioanalytic perspective.” Socioanalysis 1999 Vol 1, 1, pp34-47 |
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“Psychosomatic Presentations in Clinical Practice” Workshop for the Johannesburg Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Group, South Africa, July 1998 |
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“Can projective identification enhance our understanding of the psychodynamics of psychosomatic conditions?” Lecture, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, July 1998 |
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“Can projective identification advance our understanding of the psychodynamics of psychosomatic disorders?” Australian Journal of Psychotherapy 1997, Vol 16 Nos 1 & 2, pp170-183 |
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“Memory & desire - a glimpse of the clinical contribution of Wilfred Bion”. The Wasley Institute “Friday Forum”, April 1996. |
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Commonwealth of Australia National Counselling Guidelines: HIV/AIDS. Australian Government Publishing Service, 1992 |
Shafer, AT |
“Emotional adjustment of patients receiving psychological counselling after a diagnosis of HIV infection”. Venereology, 1990, 3 (2), 12 - 13 |
Shafer, AT |
“Psychological intervention with recurrent genital herpes”. Venereology, 1990, 3(2), 32 - 33. |
Shafer, AT |
“Psychotherapeutic intervention in AIDS-related marital breakdown in bisexual men”. Paper presented to the annual Conference Health Department of W A Clinical Psychologists Perth, March 1989. |
Shafer, AT |
“Boundary breakdown in professional AIDS counsellors”. Paper presented to the Annual Conference of the Australian Anthropological Society, University of Wester Australia, September 1989. |
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“Counsellor responses as an assessment technique”. Invited presentation to the Board of Counselling Psychologists, Australian Psychological Society (W A Branch), Perth, October 1989 |
Shafer, AT |
“Psychological barriers in the community to the care of people with AIDS”. Paper presented to Mental Health Week Dare to Care Panel, Perth, October 1989. |
Shafer, AT |
“A multi-faceted approach to the treatment of an obsessive-compulsive neurosis in an adolescent boy”. Paper presented to the 2nd National congress of the South African Society of Clinical Psychologists, Durban, July 1980. |
Shafer, AT |
“Communication skills for the speech therapist; A look at ‘reflection of feeling’ & other verbal techniques”. Newsletter of the South African Speech & Hearing Association, 1978, No. 213, 24 - 27 |
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“Day Care & emotional growth: A new perspective”. UNISA Psychologia, 1979, 6, 9 - 12 |
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“The psychiatric nurse as psychotherapist”. Australasian Nurses’ Journal, 1979, 8 (10), 1 - 3 |
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“On being a real father”. Johannesburg Society for Early Childhood Education Magazine, 1985, 2, 4 - 7 |
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“Migration: courage and commitment or fear and flight?” Businessman’s Law, 1988, 17 (6), 171 - 172 |
