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Emeritus Professor Russell MearesEmeritus Professor Russell Meares

 

Emeritus Professor Russell Meares has been Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Sydney University and Director of Joint Centres of Mental Health Excellence, Sydney since 2002.


He trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospital in London from 1963-1968. He worked for two years at an in-patient unit specialising in personality disorder which was headed by the Jungian analyst, Robert Hobson. Together, they attempted to develop an approach to psychotherapy appropriate to this group of patients, now called borderline. Hobson called it the "Conversational Model".

 

Research Interests

 

Russell Meares has established programs for the treatment of borderline personality disorder which have been taught across Australia. Faculties for these programs have been created at the University of Sydney and also within the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy, of which Russell Meares was the foundation president. Outcome studies of the university program have appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Psychiatry.

 

His major interests have been directed towards an understanding of the origins of borderline personality disorder and to the delineation of suitable methods of treatment for it. These explorations have been experiential, neuroscientific, and linguistic. The current NHMRC grant with Professor David Butt and Macquarie University is of a linguistic kind, and involves an attempt to characterize the essential linguistic structure of the beneficial therapeutic interplay between a borderline patient and the therapist.

 

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Publications

Russell Meares has been published extensively on psychotherapy, child development, and psychosomatic medicine. His most recent books are " Meares, R (2005). Metaphor of Play: Origin & Disruptions of Personal Being. 3rd, revised & enlarged edition. London : Routledge. "Intimacy and Alienation: Memory, Trauma and Personal Being" (2000).

 

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2007

  • Korner, A., Gerull, F., Stevenson, J., & Meares, R. (2007). Harm avoidance, self-harm, psychic pain, and the borderline personality: life in a "haunted house". Comprehensive Psychiatry.48(3):303-8.

2006

2005

2004

  • Stevenson, J, Gordon, E, Meares, R. A Jacksonian & biopsychosocial hypothesis concerning borderline and related phenomena. Psychiatria di Counita. 2004; 1 N:145 - 156.
  • Meares, R. (2004). From Neurosis to Trauma. Menjin, 63(4):16-27.
  • Meares, R. The conversational model: an outline. American journal of psychotherapy. 2004; 58:51-66. 

2003

  • Meares, R. Towards a psyche for psychiatry. The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry. 2003; 37:689-95. 
  • Melkonian, D, Blumenthal, T, Meares, R. High-resolution fragmentary decomposition - a model-based method of non-stationary electrophysiological signal analysis. Journal Of Neuroscience Methods. 2003; 131:149-159.
  • Stevenson, J, Meares, R, Comerford, A. Diminished impulsivity in older patients with borderline personality disorder. American Journal Of Psychiatry. 2003; 160:165-166.
  • Blumenthal, T, Meares, R, Melkonian, D. High-resolution fragmentary decomposition- a model-based methos of non-stationary electrophysiological signal analysis. Journal Of Neuroscience Methods. 2003; 131:149-159.
  • Sidis, A, Williams, L.M., Gordon, E., Haig, A. and Meares, R.A. (2003). Impaired functional connectivity in Borderline Personality Disorder. Neuroimage, 19,38.

2002

  • Meares, R, Stevenson, J, D'Angelo, R. Eysenck's challenge to psychotherapy a view of the effects 50 years on. Australian And New Zealand Journal Of Psychiatry. 2002; 36:812-815.
  • Meares, R., Stevenson, J., Gordon, E. (2002). Ipotesi jacksoniana e biopsicosociale sule manifestazioni dell’area borderline. Psichiatria Di Comunita, 1:145-156.

2001

  • Meares, R. A specific developmental deficit in obsessive-compulsive disorder: the example of the wolf man. In: Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Germany: Springer-Verlag 2001. p. 59-76.
  • Hall, J, Caleo, S, Stevenson, J, Meares, R. An economic analysis of psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder patients. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics. 2001; 61:8830-8837.
  • Bahramali, H, Lim, C, Rennie, C, Meares, R, Gordon, E. ERPs associated with and without an. International Journal of Neuroscience. 2001; 69:93-98.
  • Gordon, E, Williams, L, Haig, A, Wright, J, Meares, R. Symptom profile and. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 2001; 31(11):1155-1161.
  • Lazzaro, I, Gordon, E, Whitmont, K, Meares, R, Clarke, S. The modulation of late component event related potentials by pre-stimulus EEG theta activity in ADHD. International Journal of Neuroscience. 2001; Wyndham Anatole, Dallas Texas, USA; 2001.
  • Meares, R. (2001) Priming and Projective Identification. Bulletin of Menninger Clinic, 64(1), 76-90.
  • Meares, R. (2001) A specific developmental deficit in obsessive compulsive disorder: the example of the Wolf Man. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 21: 289-319.
  • Meares, R. (2001). Dr Meares Replies. Letters to the Editor. American Journal of Psychiatry, 158(1):145-146.
  • Meares, R. (2001). What happens next? A developmental Model of Therapeutic Spontaneity: Commentary on Paper by Philip A. Ringstrom. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 11(5):755-769.

2000

  • Meares, R, Stevenson, J. Borderline personality disorder. The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry. 2000. p. 869-71. 
  • Haig, A, Gordon, E, de Pascalis, V, Meares, R, Bahramali, H, Harris, A. Gamma activity in schizophrenia: evidence of impaired network binding?. Clinicl Neurophysiology. 2000; 11:1461-1468.
  • Haig, A.R., De Pascalis, V. Gordon, E., Meares, R.A., Bahramali, H., Harris, A.W.F. (2000). Abnormal evoked gamma response in schizophrenia. Clinical Neurophysiology, 111:1461-1468.
  • Haig, A.R., Gordon, E., Wright, J.J., Meares, RA, Bahramali, H. (2000). Synchronous cortical gamma-band activity in task-relevant cognition. Neuroreport; 11:669-675.
  • Meares, R. Mind-brain in psychotherapy. In: Integrative Neuroscience. : Harwood Academic Publishers 2000. p. 223-232.
  • Brown, K, Gordon, E, Williams, L, Bahramali, H, Harris, A, Gray, J, Gonsalvez, C, Meares, R. Misattribution of sensory input reflected in dysfunctional target:non-target ERPs in schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine. 2000; 30:1443-1449.
  • Meares, R. Priming and projective identification. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. 2000; 64:76-90.
  • Haig, A, Gordon, E, Wright, J, Meares, R, Bahramali, H. Synchronous cortical gamma-band activity in task-relevant cognition. Neuroreport. 2000; 11:669-675.
  • Meares, R. (2000) Value, trauma, and personal reality. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 63(4), 443-458.
  • Williams, L.M., Gordon, E., Bahramali, H., Wright, J.J., Meares, R.A. (2000). Late component ERPs are associated with distinct schizophrenia syndromes. International Journal of Neuroscience, 105, 37-52.
  • O Connell, O., Bahramali, H., Gordon, E., Comerford, A., Meares, R.A. (2000). Central and autonomic dysfunction in patients with borderline personality disorder. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 35:71.
  • Meares, R. (2000). A linguistic model of self. Selbstpsychologie (Self Psychology). European Journal for Psychoanalytic Therapy and Research, 2/2000:133-145.
  • Lazzaro, I., Gordon, E., Whitmont, S., Kristoffersen, S., Clarke, S., Meares, R. (2000). The modulation of late component ERPs by pre-stimulus EEG theta activity in ADHD. International Journal of Psychophsyiology, 35:68-68.
  • Brown, K., Gordon, E., William, L., Bahramali, H., Harris, A., Gray, J., Gonsalvez, C., Meares, R. (2000). Misattribution of sensory input reflected in dysfunctional target:non-target ERPs in schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine, 30(6):1443-9.
  • Bahramali, H., Gordon, E., Rennie, C., Kozek, K., Meares, R. (2000). A pattern of CNS-ANS association in patients with schizophrenia and matched controls. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 35:61.

1999

  • Meares, R. (1999). The Contribution of Hughlings Jackson to an Understanding of Dissociation. American Journal of Psychiatry, 156: 1850-1855.
  • Meares, R., Stevenson, J., Gordon, E. (1999). A Jacksonian and biopsychosocial hypothesis concerning borderline and related phenomena. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 33: 831-840.
  • Lazzaro, I., Gordon, E., Lim, C.L., Plahn, M., Whitmont ,S., Clarke, S., Barry, R.J., Dosen, A., Meares, R.A. (1999). Simultaneous EEG and EDA measures in adolescent attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 34:123-134.
  • Manor, B.R., Gordon, E., Williams, L.M., Rennie, C.J., Bahramali, H., Latimer, C.R., Barry, R.J., Meares, R.A. (1999). Eye movements reflect impaired face processing in patients with schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 46(7):963-969.
  • Meares, R., Stevenson, J., Comerford, A. (1999). Psychotherapy with Borderline Patients, I: a comparison between treated and untreated cohorts. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 33 (4):467-472.
  • Stevenson, J., Meares, R. (1999). Psychotherapy with Borderline Patients, II: a preliminary cost benefit study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 33 (4):473-477.
  • Meares, R. (1999). The Adualistic Representation of Trauma: on malignant internalisation. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 53(3):392-402.
  • Meares, R. (1999). Value, Trauma, and Personal Reality. The Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 63(4):443-458.

 

 

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