Psychological Medicine

Head: Professor B J Tonge
Address: Department of Psychological Medicine, Level 3, Block P, Monash Medical Centre, 246 Clayton Road, Clayton 3168
Telephone: (03) 9550 1477

• + Psychological medicine Consultation-liaison psychiatry; impact of psychological factors on physical illness; psycho-oncology; depression in the medically ill; psychosomatic medicine; mental health during pregnancy; post-natal mental health; attitudes to neo-natal death; psychological aspects of IVF; psychiatric complications of Parkinson's Disease; health psychology; frontal dementias; eating disorders; movement disorders; anti-androgen therapy and cognition; effects of trauma; role of essential fatty acids in dyskinesias; clinical aspects of tardive dyskinesia; essential fatty acids in Huntington's Disease; carer abuse by the mentally ill; treatment resistant schizophrenia and atypical neuroleptics; running a movement disorder clinic.
• + Psychotic illnesses Clinical and experimental psychoneuro-endocrinology; schizophrenia phenomenology, classification and treatment; treatment-resistant schizophrenia; community treatment and epidemiology of psychoses; neurophysiological and neuropsychological studies in schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease; neuronal growth and transmitter function; first onset psychosis in adolescents; women and psychosis; substance abuse and psychosis; gender issues in schizophrenia; menstrual cycle abnormalities and schizophrenia; neurochemical changes in schizophrenia; low prevalence psychosis; schizophrenia and essential fatty acids.
• + Psychogeriatrics Measurement of quality of care in nursing homes; non-pharmacological management of behaviour disorders in persons with dementia; management of behaviour disorders in elderly general practice patients with dementia; outcome of depression in elderly general practice patients; kinematics in Alzheimer's Disease.
• + Community psychiatry Database development; individual service plan development; service organisation; mental disorder in general practice; general practitioner education; recognition and treatment of depression by GPs; public attitudes to psychiatric disorders; general practice shared care; evaluation of deinstitutionalization of long-stay psychiatric patients; disaster studies.
• + Psychoanalytic studies Psychoanalytic theory; mother-infant interaction; psychodynamics of transition in individual, group, community and organisational developments; religion and psychiatry; group and organisational behaviour and structures; history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis with children; cross-cultural factors in mother-infant interaction; Winnicott; psychoanalytic practice; applications of psychoanalysis.
• + Children and/or adolescents Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; eating disorders; depression and suicide; Tourette syndrome; school refusal; neuropsychiatry; prevention of firesetting; ethics and child psychotherapy; obsessive compulsive disorder; adolescent mental health; psychopathology and intellectual disability; anxiety disorders in children; autism; compliance with treatment of serious renal disease in children; child psychoanalytic psychotherapy; outcome of training in child psychoanalytic psychotherapy; psychopathology of sexual abuse in children.
• + Forensic psychiatry Relationship between mental disorder and violent behaviour; stalkers and impact of stalking on its victims; mortality among those with severe mental illness; assessment and treatment of sex offenders; abuse of benzodiazepines among offender population.
• + General Medical education; compliance with medication; survivor psychology; ethnic psychiatry; gender issues; forensic psychiatry; psychopharmacology; outcome measures in therapy.