Wednesday 26 – 30 August 2026 – Adelaide CBD
APAS will be holding its Annual Conference in Adelaide.
Our international keynote speaker will be Dr Paul Williams psychoanalyst.
There will be a guest appearance at the Open Day (29th August) by renowned author J.M. Coetzee.
Please find further details about our speakers below:
Dr Paul Williams
Dr Paul Williams trained as a Psychoanalyst with The British Psychoanalytical Society where he was a Training and Supervising Analyst. He was awarded the Rosenfeld Essay Prize for the treatment of severe disturbance, was Joint Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis with Glen Gabbard between 2001 and 2007, and worked as a Consultant Psychotherapist for the British National Health Service in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
He lives and works in Northern California, and has published many books and papers on the subject of severe disturbance, including psychosis. He is joint editor of American Psychiatric Publishing’s Textbook of Psychoanalysis. He has published a literary trilogy depicting severe disturbance seen from the inside: The Fifth Principle, Scum and The Authority of Tenderness, and recently a novel, ‘Nothing Happened’, depicting the experience of and redemption from soul murder.
He was recently awarded the 2025 Haskell Norman Award for Psychoanalytic Excellence by The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.
John Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town in 1940 and educated at the University of Cape Town and the University of Texas, where he earned his PhD in 1968. During a lengthy academic career, he held professorial appointments at the University of Cape Town and the University of Chicago, as well as visiting appointments at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University, and the Universidad San Martin (Buenos Aires).
He has published twenty works of fiction, as well as literary criticism and translations. Among the awards he has won are the Booker Prize (twice) and, in 2003, the Nobel Prize for Literature. He lives in Adelaide, South Australia, where he is Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.
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