Peter B. Todd BA (Hons, Psychology) MAPS graduated from Sydney University in 1968. He started work as a postgraduate research psychologist at the School of Surgery, St George Hospital (University of New South Wales). This research was essentially a psychoanalytic study of quantified unconscious ego-defences and affects as predictors of behavior and outcome in women with symptoms of breast cancer. This was among the first successful attempts in the world to quantify unconscious mental processes. Research was published in the British Journal of Medical Psychology, 1978.
Subsequently, Peter held a position as research psychologist at the Neurop…
Peter B. Todd BA (Hons, Psychology) MAPS graduated from Sydney University in 1968. He started work as a postgraduate research psychologist at the School of Surgery, St George Hospital (University of New South Wales). This research was essentially a psychoanalytic study of quantified unconscious ego-defences and affects as predictors of behavior and outcome in women with symptoms of breast cancer. This was among the first successful attempts in the world to quantify unconscious mental processes. Research was published in the British Journal of Medical Psychology, 1978.
Subsequently, Peter held a position as research psychologist at the Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, became a member of the biopsychosocial AIDS Project at the University of California in San Francisco, consultant at the department of immunology at St. Vincent’s Hospital, and research psychologist at the Albion Street AIDS Clinic Sydney. He has published numerous peer-reviewed papers, including the interdisciplinary journal ‘Mind and Matter’, (2009), Teilhard Studies (2013:66). Currently he works as a registered psychoanalytically oriented psychologist and psychotherapist in private practice in Sydney.
