Summary
Louise Newman is Professor of Developmental Psychiatry and Director of the Monash University Centre for Developmental Psychiatry & Psychology.
In January 2011 she was appointed as a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia.
She 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 histories of early trauma and neglect. Her current research is focussing on the evaluation of infant-parent interventions in high-risk populations, the concept of parental reflective functioning in mothers with borderline personality disorder and the neurobiology of parenting disturbance.
Experience
- Professor of Developmental Psychiatry, School of Psychology & Psychiatry, Monash University 2009 – present
- Director, Centre for Developmental Psychiatry & Psychology , Monash University 2009 – present
- Chair, Perinatal and Infant Psychiatry, University of Newcastle 2006 – 2009
Education
- University of Sydney, PhD, 2006