A/Prof Josephine Beatson is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist who has worked in the field of Personality Disorders over many years. She is particularly interested in how early childhood experiences influence personality development in the direction of health or pathology and in what psychotherapeutic treatments are able to achieve through treatment of these disorders. A/Prof Beatson has supervised, taught and published widely in this area and is regarded as one of Australia’s foremost authorities in the field.