Dr Nick Bendit

Speaker

NICK BENDIT Is a staff specialist psychiatrist working at the Centre for Psychotherapy (Newcastle, Australia), a publicly funded outpatient psychotherapy unit offering long-term psychotherapy for patients with borderline personality disorder, eating disorders, and dissociative disorders (DID). He treats patients, supervises and teaches in the Conversational Model, and also treats patients, and teaches mental health clinicians, in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). The Centre for Psychotherapy has completed a randomised controlled trial comparing the outcome for patients with borderline personality disorder treated with either DBT or the Conversational Model. Nick is the Director of Training for ANZAP’s 3-year psychodynamic psychotherapy training in Conversational Model.