Louise Newman

Louise Newman

Professor Louise Newman AM, BA (Hons), MBBS (Hons), Ph D, FRANZCP, Cert Child & Adol Psych., is Professor of Developmental Psychiatry and Director of the Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology at Monash University. She is a practising infant psychiatrist with expertise in early attachment difficulties. She is researching the needs of parents with issues relating to early trauma and factors contributing to the transgenerational transmission of interactional disturbance. Her current research is focused on the evaluation of infant-parent interventions in high-risk populations, the concept of parental reflective functioning in mothers with borderline personality disorder, and the neurobiology of parenting disturbances.