Associate Professor Michael Robertson
MBBS(Hons) PhD FRANZCP
Clinical Associate Professor
Centre for Values, Ethics &
Law in Medicine (VELIM), School of Public Health
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Curriculum vitae | Curriculum vitae |
Biographical details
Dr Robertson is a Clinical Associate Professor of Mental Health Ethics at SydneyHealth Ethics and a visiting Professorial Fellow at the Sydney Jewish Museum. He is an Approved Medical Specialist for the NSW Worker's Compensation Commission. His clinical work is in Occupational Psychiatry and Civil Forensic Psychiatry. He had worked previously in acute adult and community psychiatry for 20 years and had been a previous Head of Department of Psychiatry at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He has previously coordinated a clinical service for survivors of psychological trauma.
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Research interests
Dr Robertson completed his PhD in the area of psychiatric ethics and traumatic stress. He was the chief investigator in a NSW Health funded study examining involuntary psychiatric treatment in the community. He has published in the area of psychological trauma, philosophy and psychiatry, and brief psychotherapy. He has interests including the depiction of psychiatry in cinema and human rights abuses perpetrated by psychiatrists under National Socialism in Germany.
Along with Garry Walter, Edwina Light and Wendy Lipworth he conducts the research program "Psychiatry and the State", currently focusing on the Holocaust and the National Socialist period in Germany (1933-45)
Ethics and Mental Health - the patient, the profession and the community was published by Taylor and Francis in 2013.His next book The First into the Darkwill be published by UTS e-press later in 2018
Teaching and supervision
Dr Robertson is a co-coordinator of the Ethics in Mental Health unit of study (BETH 5205) in the Sydney Bioethics Program. He teaches in the Holocaust: History and Aftermath unit of study (JCTC 2606) in the Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture program. He contributes periodically to the Medical Humanities and Masters of Public Health teaching program.
Current projects
Psychiatry and the State
The cinematic legacy of Ich Klage an and disability rights
Margarethe Neumann (nee Herzl) - study of Jewish victimhood in the Krankenmorde
Associations
Visiting Professorial Fellow, Sydney Jewish Museum
Member, Australian Institute of Genocide Scholars
In the media
NSW Coroner is wrong to denounce psychiatrist for Lindt Cafe siege - Crikey May 26, 2017
ABC Radio National - The Body Sphere - "New Eugenics:Designer Bodies"
ABC Radio National - Late Night Live - "Medical Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust"
ABC TV - Catalyst - "The Rise of Narcissism"
ABC Radio National - The Philosopher's Zone "The Problem of Evil"
ABC Radio National - The Philosopher's Zone "A Dangerous Method"
ABC Radio National - All in the Mind "Thomas Szasz:Psychiatrists Respond"
Keywords
Ethics; Health practice; Mental health; Philosophy of Medicine; Post-traumatic stress disorders
Clinical Specialty
Psychiatry
Selected grants
2015
- Psychiatry under the Swastika; Robertson M; University of Sydney/Internal Scheme.
2009
- Community Treatment Orders: improving clinical decision-making; Robertson M; Health Administration Corporation/Drug and Alcohol Research Grant.
Selected publications
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