Carolyn Quadrio

Born in Perth, Western Australia, Quadrio studied at the University of Western Australia, receiving a Bachelor's degree in Medicine and Surgery (1966). Awarded a Diploma in Psychological Medicine (with Distinction) from The University of Otago, New Zealand (1971). She was the first extramural student accepted into the program.Lunch Hour talk by Dr Carolyn Quadrio on Child Sexual Abuse 18.9 .1997 at 147 A King St. Sydney 2000 Transcribed from audio tape cassette by Elizabeth Lonergan Aug. 2000. URL: https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/IND.0413.001.0001.pdf She became a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 1973 and a member of the Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (RANZCP) in 1987. In 1998 Quadrio completed her Doctoral dissertation at the University of Sydney.{{Cite journal |last=Quadrio |first=Carolyn |date=1991 |title=Women in Australian and New Zealand Psychiatry: The Fat Lady Sings |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679109077723 |journal=Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=95–110 |doi=10.3109/00048679109077723 |pmid=2049026 |s2cid=12007813 |issn=0004-8674}}

Quadrio's research spans from women's mental health to feminism and gender analysis of psychiatry in Australia. She is also known for working against the abuse of children{{Cite news |date=2003-05-14 |title=Psychiatrists call for child sex abuse summit |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2003-05-15/psychiatrists-call-for-child-sex-abuse-summit/1853828 |access-date=2024-09-29 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}} especially in religious institutions, the long-term sequelae of childhood sexual abuse, and psychiatric issues in domestic violence.{{Cite journal |last=Cornwell |first=Max |date=December 2013 |title=Commentary: 'I Have It on Good Authority …' |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anzf.1032_4 |journal=Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy |language=en |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=375–379 |doi=10.1002/anzf.1032_4 |issn=0814-723X}}

Apart from academic researches, Quadrio is a therapist, educator, advocate on injustice and ethical issues as well as boundary violations.{{Cite journal |last=Kozlowska |first=Kasia |date=2013 |title=Introducing Carolyn Quadrio |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ |journal=Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy |language=en |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=370–373 |doi=10.1002/anzf.1032_2 |issn=1467-8438|doi-access=free }}

Quadrio was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2024 for her "significant service to psychiatry". In 2021, she received the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists NSW Meritorious Service Award.{{Cite web |title=Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists |url=https://www.ranzcp.org}}

Quadrio sought to change the dominant, masculine-centred paradigm in psychiatry.{{Cite journal |last=Cornwell |first=Max |date=2013 |title=Introducing Carolyn Quadrio |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ |journal=Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy |language=en |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=370–373 |doi=10.1002/anzf.1032_2 |issn=1467-8438|doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last=Quadrio |first=C. |date=March 1991 |title=Women in Australian and New Zealand psychiatry: the fat lady sings |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ |journal=The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=95–110 |doi=10.3109/00048679109077723 |issn=0004-8674 |pmid=2049026|s2cid=12007813 }} A perspective that pervaded the 1960s theories and methods of family therapy, in particular the Freudian model which saw children separated from parents during therapy sessions. Quadrio invited parents to sessions in order to understand their broader social context insisting females in therapy needed different considerations to males. Previously (and concurrently), clinicians "characterised male attributes as the norm and female attributes – like emotionalism – deviant behaviour, neurosis, so called", when assessing patients. Quadrio stated that discovering family therapy was critical to her professional development.{{Cite journal|last=Quadrio|first=Carolyn|date=December 2013|title=Quadrio: Acceptance Speech|url=https://sydney.edu.au/|journal=Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy|volume=34|pages=373–375|doi=10.1002/anzf.1032_3}}

The marginalisation of women in psychiatry led to Quadrio's future research on female representation in her field.{{Cite journal |last=Kozlowska |first=Kasia |date=2013 |title=Introducing Carolyn Quadrio |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com |journal=Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy |language=en |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=370–373 |doi=10.1002/anzf.1032_2 |issn=1467-8438|doi-access=free }} Following the 1988 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Annual Congress she publicly raised the issue by criticising the lack of female plenary speakers.{{Cite web |title=Uniken 1990, no. 7 (18 May, 1990) |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-252702062 |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=Trove |page=3 |language=en}} At the 1990 Congress, Quadrio was invited to present Development, Gender and Psychotherapy;{{Cite news|title=UNIKEN|page=3|issue=7|url=https://nla.gov.au/}} very few women in that 26-year history received that opportunity. Quadrio was the sole Australian presenter at the 20th [https://eabct.eu/ Annual Congress of the European Association of Behavioural Therapists] held in Paris, 1990.{{Cite web |date=9 November 1990 |title=Parisian touch for behavioural therapists. |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-252725602/view?partId=nla.obj-252726236 |archive-url= |access-date=8 September 2024 |website=Trove |edition=No. 298 (No.18 of 1990)}} She was amongst the first scientific exchanges arranged by the Australia - France Endowment fund. During a civil rights protest outside the conference where placards referencing the violations of the rights of man, Quadrio, held up her own slogan in French "women also have rights".

• Director of Mental Health Services, Correctional Health Services, New South Wales (1998- 2001){{Cite web |date=26 April 2022 |title=Letter from Prof Philip Morris to Mental Health Select Committee as part of the Inquiry into Mental Health Services In NSW |url=https://documents.parliament.qld.gov.au/com/MHSC-1B43/IQ-5DEF/cor-NAPP-26Apr2022.pdf |page=29}}{{Cite web |last1=Wainer |first1=Jo |last2=Ann Maree |first2=Ann Maree |title=INCREASING RIGOUR IN MEDICAL EDUCATION: A SYMPOSIUM ON TEACHING ABOUT GENDER IN MEDICINE |url=https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/81603429/SydneyReport200202-libre.pdf?1646261476=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DA_Symposium_on_Teaching_About_Gender_in.pdf&Expires=1727583979&Signature=WAzw8EegzWRwDcIW7KpB~ffXyq4ErZjC~iy5Uy3QxDrxFq3kLVfMkY3ViUBGnGAO53v1Xse45OpadL~mN~ceL~U33U4UFEVE1cB161uTDrpc3i7JuqFeHDU5JuWIFCb8XHJLMorXVUQr2sr8mMN-QhBvEVw4dGj2gHuBaph4Xa~0YWBZofmi82NiBaV57hnIVoVVC1smxrzJvYVOrmX84QpStrRsLNBYGMbvdxc3Mr3VYHabrxuk8qjywLPOpYrfflonnnPGxtvjHi44ZDFbNkKerKh9L2j8W2dCryzPfwwU5ut3pRv5wEl~SOoVUcpZla8umOZ3MXSLLOc9JZ4jNQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA |archive-url= |archive-date= |publisher=Monash University School of Rural Health}}
• Visiting Psychotherapy Supervisor, Prince of Wales Hospital, Department of Psychiatry (1990-1998)
• Deputy Medical Superintendent, Department of Psychiatry, Prince of Wales Hospital (1987-1989){{Cite web |title=Carolyn Quadrio {{!}} The University of New South Wales - Academia.edu |url=https://unsw.academia.edu/CQuadrio/CurriculumVitae |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=unsw.academia.edu}}
• Private Practice, Sydney, Australia (full-time1984-1986 and Part-time 1989-2024)

• Prior chairperson of the committee for [https://www.ranzcp.org/training-exams-and-assessments/advanced-training/psychotherapies#formal-education Advanced Training in Psychotherapies], General Councillor, Fellowships board member and NSW Branch Committee member with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP).{{Cite web |date=6 January 2023 |title=NSW Government |url=https://www.justicehealth.nsw.gov.au/about-us/board/bios |website=Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health: Bio's}}
• Advisory Panel, [https://blueknot.org.au/ Blueknot:] Empowering recovery from complex trauma (2024){{Cite web |title=Advisory Panel |url=https://blueknot.org.au/about-us/our-people/advisory-panel/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=Blue Knot Foundation |language=en-AU}}
• Advisory Panel, International support and information for survivors of therapist abuse (1991-2022).
• Advisory Panel [https://www.ascasupport.org/ Adults Surviving Child Abuse] (ASCA ), The Morris Center, U.S.A (2012- 2022).
• Professional Advisory Panel, Victims Services, Department of Justice, NSW (1988- 2021).
• Federal Councillor, RANZCP, Chairperson, Committee for Advanced Training in Psychotherapies (1998-2004).{{Cite journal |date=April 1999 |title=New General Councillors |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1046/j.1440-1665.1999.0187g.x |journal=Australasian Psychiatry |language=en |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=107 |doi=10.1046/j.1440-1665.1999.0187g.x |issn=1039-8562}}
• Regional Vice President (Australia), [http://www.iabmcp.org/ International Academy of Behavioural Medicine Counselling and Psychotherapy](1988-2001).
• Sexual Offenders Ministerial Advisory Group, Attorney Generals Office, New South Wales (1998- 2003).
• President, Editorial Board, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (1988–92){{Cite web |title=EDITORIAL BOARD REPORT {{!}} QUADRIO, CAROLYN {{!}} download |url=https://in.booksc.eu/book/57249812/c43384 |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=in.booksc.eu}} and recipient ANJFT Journal Award for Excellence (2013).
• Honorary Appointment, Ethics Committee, Australian Medical Association (1989–91){{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Russell G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pBMKbSh9v-wC&dq=%22Carolyn+Quadrio%22&pg=PR7 |title=Health Care, Crime and Regulatory Control |date=1998 |publisher=Hawkins Press |isbn=978-1-876067-09-0 |language=en}}

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Quadrio has taught across Sydney as a Senior Lecturer and Visiting Fellow on both psychotherapy and family therapy. She contributes locally and internationally in building family therapy knowledge base and practice.{{Cite journal |last=Moloney |first=Banu |date=2013-06-01 |title=Reflections on Family Therapy in Australia |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10591-013-9272-4 |journal=Contemporary Family Therapy |language=en |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=400–419 |doi=10.1007/s10591-013-9272-4 |issn=1573-3335}}

• Senior Lecturer and Supervisor, [https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/mentalhealth/professionals/Pages/nsw-iop-trstn-to-heti.aspx NSW Institute of Psychiatry]: Postgraduate Program in Psychiatry (1990-2021).{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Institute of psychiatry |url=https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/tp/files/7487/Institute%20of%20Psychiatry%20-%20annual%20report%202012-13.pdf}}{{Cite journal |last1=Burke |first1=David |last2=Moore |first2=Michael |last3=Newman |first3=Louise |last4=Orr |first4=Fran |date=October 1999 |title=Psychotherapy Supervision for Pre-Section I Trainees: Access, Equity and Quality |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1046/j.1440-1665.1999.00206.x |journal=Australasian Psychiatry |language=en |volume=7 |issue=5 |pages=248–250 |doi=10.1046/j.1440-1665.1999.00206.x |issn=1039-8562}}
• Lecturer and Student Supervisor in Psychotherapy and Family Therapy at each of the five major teaching centres in Sydney: Westmead Children's, Royal North Shore Child and Family Unit, Prince of Wales and Royal Women's (Paddington) Hospitals; also Rivendell and Arndell Child and Adolescent Units (1990 -1998).
• Senior Lecturer, [https://heti.edu.au/ New South Wales Institute of Psychotherapy] (1989-1997)
• Founder, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry & Coordinator Post-graduate Psychotherapy Program, School of Psychiatry University of New South Wales faculty of Medicine and the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney (1988-1991)
• Senior Lecturer, Family Therapy Institute{{Cite journal |last=Achimovich |first=Lois |date=March 2008 |title='Therapy Doesn't Exist in a Vacuum': An Interview With Max Cornwell |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1375/anft.29.1.40 |journal=Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy |language=en |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=44 |doi=10.1375/anft.29.1.40 |issn=0814-723X}}

In 2024 Quadrio continues teaching as an Adjunct Associate Professor for the School of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales.

Quadrio has fifty eight publications, cited 479 times{{Cite web |title=Google Scholar |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Uvwnm7wAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra}} with over 14, 500 reads.{{Cite web |title=Research Gate |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carolyn-Quadrio}}

• Women working and training in Australian psychiatry (2001).{{Cite journal |last=Ames |first=David |date=August 2002 |title=Book Review: Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Annual 2001, 1st edn |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1046/j.1440-1614.2002.t01-3-01055.x |journal=Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry |language=en |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=568–569 |doi=10.1046/j.1440-1614.2002.t01-3-01055.x |issn=0004-8674}} Glebe, NSW: Bookhouse.

• Incest that continues into adult life (2019). In: Benjamin, R., Haliburn, J., & King, S. Humanising mental health care in Australia : a guide to trauma-informed approaches. Routledge.{{ISBN|9780429021923}}
• Psychiatry and the Depressed Woman (2010) in Hussin, I., (ed.), Women and Depression. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne UK.{{Cite web |title=School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales |url=https://psych.med.unsw.edu.au/}}
• Criminalisation of Post-Therapeutic Relationships in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (1998). In: Smith, RG., Health Care, Crime and Regulatory Control. Sydney: Hawkins Press.
• Three Generations of Greek Brides in Western Australia (1994). In: Weddings and Wives. Spender, D., (ed), Penguin, Sydney.
• Family Therapy: Clinical Aspects (1991). In: Mental Health and Illness. Kosky,R., Eshkaviri, H., and Carr,V.,(eds), Butterworths, Australia.
• The Mid-Life Transition for the Homemaker (1990). In: Women and Health. Saltman,D., (ed), Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Sydney.

• Peisah, C., Brodaty, H., & Quadrio, C. (2006). Family Conflict in Dementia. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 21, 485–492.
• Quadrio, C. (2004). A personal view of our history to 1988: Family therapy in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 25, 64–67.
• Quadrio, C. (2004). Boundary violations in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy in Australia, 10( 3), 28–37.
• Quadrio, C. (1998). On psychiatry: Some reflections circa 1998. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 32, 751–752.
• Quadrio, C. (1997). Women and men and the medical workforce in Australia. Editorial, Medical Journal of Australia, 166, 7.
• Quadrio, C. (1996). Sexual exploitation in therapy: Gender issues. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 30, 124–133.
• Quadrio, C. (1996). Contemporary cinematic representations of the female psychiatrist. Australian Feminist Studies, 23, 115–128.
• Quadrio, C. (1994). Woman‐centred perspectives on female psychosexuality. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 28, 478–487.
• Quadrio, C. (1994). Do we need a psychology of gender difference? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 15( 4), 177–183.
• Quadrio, C. (1994). Sexual abuse involving therapists, clergy and judiciary: Closed ranks, collusions and conspiracies of silence. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 1( 2), 189–198.
• Quadrio, C. (1992). Sex and gender and the impaired therapist. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 26, 346–363.
• Quadrio, C. (1991). Women in Australian psychiatry: The fat lady sings. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 25, 95–110.
• Quadrio, C. (1988). Remedicalisation as regression in psychiatry. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 22, 242–245.
• Quadrio C. and Levy, F. (1988). Separation anxiety in over‐attached families. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 9( 3), 123–130.
• Quadrio, C. (1987). Family therapy: What are the basic assumptions? Editorial comment. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 21, 420–422.
• Quadrio, C. (1986). The middle years, education update. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 7( 1), 33–37.
• Quadrio, C. (1986). Analysis and system: A marriage. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 20, 2l9–224.
• Quadrio, C. (1986). Individuation as a life process – the interface of intrapsychic and systems theories. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 7( 4), l89–l93.
• Quadrio, C. (1984). Families of agoraphobic women. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, l8, l64–l70.
• Quadrio, C. (1982). Rapunzel and the pumpkin eater – A study of marital systems in agoraphobic women. Australian Journal of Family Therapy, 4 ( 2), 81–85.
• Quadrio, C. (1982). The Peter Pan and Wendy syndrome – A marital dynamic. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, l6, 23–28.
• Quadrio, C.(1981). Psychiatry and family law in Western Australia, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, l5, l9–22.
• Quadrio, C.(1981). Schizophrenia and family therapy. Australian Journal of Family Therapy, 2( 3), l23–l29.

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• 2024. Psych Matters, [https://psychmatters.ranzcp.org/1072258/episodes/14425983 'Sheroes' in Psychiatry- Associate Professor Carolyn Quadrio]. Podcast by RANZCP
• 2023. 7:30 Report, ABC National: {{Cite web |date=2023-11-06 |title='The sort of thing you see on Netflix': Inside one psychologist's web of lies |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-06/like-something-on-netflix-inside-one-psychologist-s-web-of-lies/103071706 |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.abc.net.au |language=en-AU}}
• 2015 Royal Commission session into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfjzVLd9Bdc
• 2015 [https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/6651692 Background Briefing ABC Radio National] - Extended interview with Carolyn Quadrio (32mins)
• 2015 Long term impact of sexual abuse - [https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/worldtoday/child-abuse-inquiry-sexual-abuse-causes-long-term/6495268 ABC radio]
• 2010 Expert panel: [https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/sundaynights/behind-the-media-scandal-of-clerical-sexual-abuse/7742092 Behind the Media Scandal of Clerical Sexual Abuse] ABC National Radio, Australia
• 1997 Lunch Hour Talk on Sexual Abuse (transcript 2000): https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/IND.0413.001.0001.pdf

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