Gerard Webster

Speaker

Psychoanalyst, Forensic & Counselling Psychologist Honorary Fellow of Australian Catholic University Gerard Webster is a Counselling and Forensic Psychologist who completed psychoanalytic training at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, where he continues to be a member. Gerard has worked intensively with both survivors of child sexual abuse and those who have abused for over thirty years, and has been in private practice since 1993. Since then, Gerard has lectured in child abuse prevention strategies and has published articles, training packages, and practice guidelines for Church and government organisations that are responsible for the care and protection of children. Gerard has been awarded the title of Honorary Fellow of Australian Catholic University in recognition of his reputation as a psychologist and educator, his extensive work in the Catholic education sector. He is also past president of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abuse. Gerard holds a Doctorate in Psychoanalysis and is continuing his studies at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis as a PhD candidate, researching the application of Psychoanalytic Complexity Theory to child sexual offending. Gerard recently won the 2015 International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology Candidate Essay Award, and the 2016 Stephen Mitchell Award of Division 39, American Psychological Association, for an essay that is soon to be published in Psychoanalytic Psychology.