Dr Doris McIlwain
Department of Psychology
Macquarie University

NSW 2109
Australia

Phone: 9850 9430
Email: dmcilwai@psy.mq.edu.au


 

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Last updated March 9, 2007

Keep the dream running.

Please note that I will be on OSP in First semester of 2007.

I'm a personality psychologist.  My research areas span individual differences that make a difference to the way that we negotiate life tasks, and to the way the we experience others and ourselves.  I research the links between Narcissism and such personality styles as Machiavellianism and psychopathy, with an emphasis on psychological mindedness.  An enduring interest is in self-deception and the different forms that takes from the way that we sculpt an image of ourselves to present to others, right down to a motivated lack of insight into the beliefs we hold and the wellsprings of our own actions.  My enduring project is exploring the nature of Charisma and I have a new article on that topic recently completed.

I'm currently doing research on the shifts in expert movement and instructional nudges in long-term yoga pracitioners, affective profiles of Machiavellian and Narcissistic personalities and the way that guided interviews can change the way that different personalities experience rage.

I will be on OSP in the first semester of 2007, and will not be available for honours supervision in that year.  I teach an array of courses at Macquarie University: a first year introductory block of lectures as well as contributing to PSY 234, a second year course which addresses personality and social psychology.  I run two third year courses relevant to personality: PSY 305 - a Third year personality course, and a course on the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (PSY 361). Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (PSY 361) will not run in 2007 due to my being away on OSP.   I was part of the Sydney Silvan Tomkins Research Group into Tomkin's Affect Theory, and retain a keen interest in his work.  I am a foundational member of the Working Through Psychoanalysis group.
 
 
Research Teaching Outreach Wider interests
 Recent Publications Semester One 2006

PSY 234 Students:




PSY 234 



PSY 104 
 

Check this out!
Harmful Social Science
 

Please note:
Philosophy of Psychoanalysis will not be run in 2007.

PSY 361 Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
 

Radio Program
ABC Friday August 5, 2005
Dreams and Psychotherapy
 

TV Show 

2005- Masks
Saturday June 4 at 8pm
Sunday June 5 at 5:30pm
with Antonia Kidman

The Women's channel -
Program: The Bigger Things

 November 2005
All in the Mind
Memory



     Peer talk:  talk

   ABC Radio Program
 

 Radio program March 6: repression
 

   Psychoanalysis and Culture

 
 

 

 Recent Reviews

The charisma of fallible leaders

 Yoga and Psychology

 The Science of Love


Semester Two 2006
 

PSY 305 Personality
 

 

 

 
 
 

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