Dr Doris McIlwain

Speaker

Doris is a psychoanalytically-inflected personality psychologist and psychotherapist who studies emotion, movement and memory. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, she takes these interests into field and laboratory studies of resilience in elite cricketers, dancers, yoga practitioners and psychotherapists. With her masters and doctoral students she explores resilience in an array of culturally challenging life contexts. She teaches Personality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis in her role as Associate Professor at Macquarie University, and publishes in psychology, cognitive science, philosophy and art journals.