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“Sister Alphonsus was walking up and down in the front rows. The words fell sharply from her lips, “What is that noise!?“ She stopped in front of me. “Warwick, would you be awfully offended if I put you out of the choir?” Over half a century later I publish my reply.”
Sixty years after a devastating choir rejection, Cannot Play and Cannot Sing brings together more than 55 poems and songs exploring life’s joys, traumas, humour and heartbreak. Spanning war, love, loss, fatherhood and psychology, these rhythmic ballads offer a diverse, contemplative and often surprising journey through the human experience.
Little did Sister Alphonsus know that her searing criticism would sow the seeds, admittedly a circuitous route, for a later in life blooming in Cannot Play and Cannot Sing, a creative adventure with his son Hugh, musician and musical producer.
Join me with his son Hugh, childhood friend Robyn Bunting, colleague Prof. Martin Dorahy, and of course Warwick, in his right of reply!
| Date | Start Time | Finish Time | Hours | Time Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1, 2026 | 6:00 pm | 7:30 pm | 1.5 | AEDT |
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Dr Warwick Middleton, AM, MB BS, FRANZCP, MD, has considerable ongoing involvement with research, writing, teaching (including workshops and seminar presentations), supervision, conference convening and the chairing of Medical Assessment Tribunals. With Dr Jeremy Butler, he was author of the first published series in the Australian scientific literature detailing the abuse histories and clinical phenomenology of patients fulfilling diagnostic criteria for Dissociative Identity Disorder. He was the first researcher to publish systematic research into ongoing incestuous abuse during adulthood.
Warwick holds appointments as Professor in Psychiatry, University of Queensland, Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, School of Behavioural, Cognitive & Social Sciences, University of New England, Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury. He is Chair of The Cannan Institute.
He is a Fellow (2008) and Past President (2016) of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) and was in 2018, a recipient of that Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Other ISSTD awards include the Morton Prince Award for Scientific Achievement (2013), the Pierre Janet Award for Writing (2014), the President’s Award (2015), and the Distinguished Achievement Award (2017). In 2015 Dr Middleton was awarded the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Joan Lawrence Queensland Meritorious Service Award.
In 1996 he was a principal architect in establishing Australia’s first dedicated unit treating dissociative disorders (the Trauma and Dissociation Unit, Belmont Hospital). He has authored many papers and book chapters and has been the co-editor of two books based on journal special issues.
Warwick is Co-Editor with Prof Martin Dorahy of Contemporary Perspectives on Freud’s Seduction Theory and Psychotherapy: Revisiting Masson’s ‘The Assault on Truth’, (2024), Routledge
Warwick is in full-time private psychiatric practice and lives in Brisbane, Australia.
Warwick presented for Delphi in 2003, 2006 and 2007.
Photo Credit: Jeff Gilbert / Alamy
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