Dr Mary-Anne Kate

Dr Mary-Anne Kate is an award-winning researcher specialising in dissociation and interpersonal trauma, and mental health. She is a Scientific Committee member of International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD).

Mary-Anne currently lectures on the Master of Professional Psychology and Bachelor of Psychological Science programs at Southern Cross University and has previously taught on the Master of Mental Health. She recently developed the master’s unit on Psychological Assessment and Psychopathology, and the undergraduate unit Understanding Psychological Diagnoses, and is the lead author of the Dissociative and Somatic Disorder chapter in the Australasian Wiley textbook Abnormal Psychology.

In 2021 Mary-Anne was awarded the Morton Prince award for Scientific Research. In 2018 she was awarded the Chancellor’s Doctoral Research Medal from the University of New England and in 2019 the David Caul Award from the ISSTD for her PhD on childhood maltreatment, parent-child dynamics, and dissociation. Mary-Anne developed the Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation – 60 item version (MID-60) to screen for dissociative symptoms, DSM-5-TR dissociative disorders and PTSD.

Mary-Anne also has extensive experience improving the quality of life and mental health of refugees, migrants, and other vulnerable groups, including in a diplomatic role in Cairo, as a policy advisor in an influential EU think tank, and strategic policy development in Canberra. Mary-Anne is passionate about creating a mentally healthy and equitable society.