DrBarry O'Donnell

Director, Psychotherapy Programmes

School of Medicine

  • Director, Psychotherapy Programmes
    School of Medicine
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  • University College Dublin, School of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Elm Park Dublin 4

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    Conference
    10 May 2023
    International conference on the ethics of psychoanalysis in light of the the teaching of Jacques Lacan
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    12 Sep 2020
    Two Lectures by Dr. Christian Fierens (Brussels) with response from Professor Dany Nobus (Brunel, London) based on Dr. Fierens' 2020 publication Le principe de jouissance (eme-editions).
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    28 Sep 2019
    A workshop by Dr. Christian Fierens based on his 2018 publication in English of The soul of narcissism. Held in St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Undergraduate and Taught Masters Research Ethics Committee (UTMREC-SM)
    15 Sep 2019
    Member
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    30 Nov 2018
    The symptom of the psychoanalytic group and the transmission of psychoanalysis – a tribute to the work of Cormac Gallagher, who introduced the practice and teaching of Lacanian psychoanalysis into Ireland
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    Conference
    9 Dec 2016
    International conference responding to the question: what is anxiety? with contributions from psychoanalytic and psychiatric perspectives
  • CONSULTING / ADVISORY
    30 Nov 2016
    I co-ordinated and drafted the response to the invitation from Simon Harris, TD, Minister for Health, in November 2016, on behalf of the Psychotherapy programmes in the School of Medicine in UCD and The School of Psychotherapy in St. Vincent’s University Hospital
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    19 Jun 2015
    Dr. Michael Plastow (Melbourne) held a workshop The ages of a child based on his 2015 publication What is a child?
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    Conference
    6 Dec 2013
    Treatment Challenges in Psychosis: Voices of Difference – Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in Dialogue, SVUH, December 2013
  • CONSULTING / ADVISORY
    Quality Qualifications Ireland (QQI)
    3 Oct 2011 - 30 Jun 2014
    Standards Development Group for Awards Standards for Qualifications in Counselling and Psychotherapy which authored the Awards Standards for Qualifications in Counselling and Psychotherapy [QQI , 2014]
  • PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
    1 Dec 2007
    An organisation for the the furtherance of research in the filed of Lacanian psychoanalysis
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    Conference
    5 May 2006
    Freud 150, a congress marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, May 2006.
  • CONSULTING / ADVISORY
    Psychological Therapies Forum
    1 Oct 2005 - 12 May 2007
    As Chairperson of APPI at the time I participated in the setting up of the Psychological Therapies Forum, an initiative recommended by the Minister of State with responsibility for the Mental Health Services, Tim O’Malley, T.D to prepare for the Health and Social Care Professionals Act (2005).
  • CONSULTING / ADVISORY
    A Vision for Change
    1 Jul 2005
    A VISION FOR CHANGE (2006): I contributed to the submission from APPI to the Expert Group on the Mental Health Services, who subsequently published the A Vision for Change policy document 2006, the document guiding the delivery of mental health treatment in Ireland.
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    Conference
    15 Jun 2005
    Joyce/Lacan - an international conference responding to Jacques Lacan's reference to James Joyce in his Seminar Le sinthome
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    21 May 2005 - 12 May 2007
    Chair
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Board of Trustees
    15 Jan 2005 - 1 Nov 2006
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    1 May 2002 - 12 May 2007
    Elected member