Richmond, Melbourne — and Australia-wide by telehealth
Myles Medwell: Clinical Psychologist & Psychoanalyst in Melbourne
Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Richmond, Melbourne
Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Richmond, Melbourne
I’m a Clinical Psychologist and psychoanalyst working in Richmond, Melbourne. My practice is grounded in Lacanian psychoanalysis, and the people I see are usually trying to make sense of something in their life that has not yielded to other approaches — patterns that repeat, feelings that resist being named, a sense that something is being said by the symptom that has not yet been heard.
What brings someone to analysis is not always a diagnosis. It can be a difficulty in love, in work, in sexuality, in relation to one’s own body. It can be a repetition that has begun to feel like a fate. Often what matters is not the presenting symptom but the desire to speak and to work something through — to find out what is at stake in one’s own life.
The clinical work I do covers a wide range: conversion (better known in contemporary medicine as Functional Neurological Disorder), complex trauma, dissociation, obsessional difficulties, sexual difficulties, difficulties in relationships, and the questions of identity and desire that move beneath them. Theoretically I am also drawn to hysteria, to the place of the sacred and the profane in a life, and to the limits of contemporary diagnostic categories — areas I write about and continue to think through clinically.
I am a member of the Freudian School of Melbourne, where my training and analytic work continue, and I have presented at the Brisbane Psychoanalytic Congress (2025). A psychoanalytic reading group, regular supervision, and ongoing personal analysis are part of the work, not separate from it.
I grew up in Ballarat. The values that shaped me there which are curiosity, care, and a certain plainness of speech all still inform how I listen.
A psychoanalyst is a clinician trained to listen to the unconscious. A Lacanian psychoanalyst works in the tradition initiated by Freud and developed by Jacques Lacan, which is a tradition that takes language, speech, and desire and the singularity of a person as central to how a subject comes to suffer, and to how that suffering may be worked through.
In Australia the title psychoanalyst is not legally regulated, which means it is worth knowing what stands behind it in any given case. In mine, it stands for membership of the Freudian School of Melbourne which is distinct from the title of Analyst of the School, which is a separate designation conferred through the School’s own procedures ongoing training in that tradition, regular clinical supervision, and personal analysis. In this sense, I work as psychoanalyst and so stands my position respectfully in the work. Of course, it also stands for a clinical practice in which the analysand is engaged in long-form analysis rather than short-term, protocol-driven treatment.
I am also a Clinical Psychologist and general Board Approved Supervisor registered with AHPRA. The two practices sit alongside each other.
Member — Freudian School of Melbourne (M.F.S.M.)
Presenter — Brisbane Psychoanalytic Congress, 2025
Convenor — psychoanalytic reading group / cartel
Ongoing personal analysis and clinical supervision
Affiliated with the Colorado Analytic Forum
Master of Clinical Psychology — Federation University
Registered Psychologist — AHPRA, Psychology Board of Australia
Board-approved Supervisor — Psychology Board of Australia
Member — Australian Clinical Psychology Association (AMACPA)
Member — FND Australia
MVS Psychology
Peaceful Mind Psychology
One Red Tree Psychology (rural Victoria)
Austin Health (research)
Australian Centre for Heart Health; Melbourne Clinic (research on trauma and resilience)
Publication
Psychological Resilience Protects Against Depression One Month Following Acute Coronary Syndrome. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 30, S262.
I see people at 53 Erin Street, Richmond — a few minutes from the city, easily reached from Cremorne, Burnley, Hawthorn, Kew, Collingwood, Fitzroy, East Melbourne, and the wider inner east. The clinic is private and kept deliberately quiet and unhurried. The work I am most interested in is long-form analysis, and I also offer treatment for conversion and FND, as well as clinical supervision for registrars and other practitioners. A verified profile is available on Psychology Today.
Telehealth is available across Australia for analysis, consultation, supervision, and selected assessments.
mylesmedwell@gmail.com
Telehealth available Australia-wide