Together with writing her own research papers, Colette has a special interest in mentoring the writing of others. Sometime this is with other therapists wanting to write creatively or academically, and at other times with writers wanting encouragement and critique. Additionally she runs book groups for people wanting to read and reflect on their readings as they pertain to their own lives.
Colette’s psychoanalytically oriented writing includes
Quiet Please: Metamorphosis is Taking Place – Metaphor as vehicle for Change and Harbinger of Transformation
The Self in Conversation Volume IV, Ed Russell Meares and Pauline Nolan, 2005
ANZAP Books, pp76-91.
The Metaphor of Play: Origin and Breakdown of Personal Being
(Review)
Third edition, Russell Meares, ANZAP Bulletin, Winter 2005 Volume 15 No. 2, pp35 -37.
From Coleridge’s Conversational Poems to the Conversational Model or It Takes Two to Tango
The Self in Conversation
Volume V, Ed Russell Meares and Pauline Nolan, 2006
ANZAP Books, pp204-220.
Poetry and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Negotiating World and Word
The Self in Conversation
Volume VI, Ed Russell Meares and Pauline Nolan, 2007
ANZAP Books, pp136-150.
Mara Linga, A Visual Metaphor for Trauma and its Integration
A paper given at The World Congress of Psychotherapy
Sydney 2011.
Relationally and Creatively
A paper given at the IARPP Conference
New York, 2012.
Writing Workshops
Colette’s recent Writing Workshop: ‘The Autobiographical Self: Organising the Past’ facilitated the writing of life stories from psychotherapists at the 22nd ANZAP Annual Conference, September 2010.
The Autobiographical Urge: From Trauma to Health
Given at the Combined Conference Initiative of Westmead Hospital and The Australia and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy (ANZAP)
Sydney 2012.
Wordsworth. Hobson and the Ineffable Something
Paper given to ANZAP Conference
2014.
Master of Ships, Master of Metaphor: Hobson’s Debt to Joseph Conrad
Paper given to ANZAP Conference
2016.
From Dissociation to a Grounded Gnosis
Paper presented to IARPP Conference Sydney
2017.