Paula Dabovich

Paula is currently an Adjunct Senior Lecturer and postdoctoral researcher with the School of Public Health and Visiting Fellow with the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies at the University of Adelaide. She holds a strong interest in the historical relationships that exist between medicine, psychiatry, and the military, and the ways these relationships have informed major public health advances over the past 100 years. More specifically, Paula uses psychoanalytic theory to link physical, psychological, and social health phenomenon that cannot be accounted for in more reductionist fields. In addition she explores the relationship between this theory (and its clinical application) to the experience of (and recovery from) trauma and related issues such as moral injury, in the context of organisations such as the military, police, and emergency services. Her work is primarily developmental and highlights the strengths and limitations of dominant (i.e. cognitive behaviourist) and emerging (i.e. existentialist, strengths, and values based) approaches to care and cultural reform.