“Das Ding”: Excessive Existence: Discussion of “Melancholic Psychosis”

Gillian Straker, Ph.D., is a Clinical Professor in Psychology at the University of Sydney and a Visiting Research Professor at the University Witwatersrand South Africa. She is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Supervisor in private practice in Sydney, is the Director of Centre for Applied Studies in Psychotherapy and Counselling, and is involved in a number of training programs. She has broad experience working in the area of posttraumatic and continuing traumatic stress. She has worked with UNHCR on programs for refugees and survivors of torture and detention. She was involved in Detainees Counselling Services in South Africa and was a founding member of the Sanctuaries Counselling Team providing services to individuals on the run from the Apartheid State. She has numerous publications in the fields of posttraumatic stress, psychotherapy, peace studies, and spirituality. She has published a book called Faces in the Revolution.
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