In Print
Macquarie alumna helps demystify the therapy experience
Psychoanalysis has moved a long way from the techniques of Freud. These changes are seldom disseminated to the wider community and are frequently misunderstood, even by university scholars, psychologists and students of psychology. A new book by distinguished Macquarie alumna psychologist Dianna Kenny aims to change that. She has written more than two hundred publications and her new...
Harnessing the healing power of thinking positively
Paul Kraus was one of Macquarie’s first graduates, attending the new university when many of its other students were mothers who’d returned to study after raising families, Catholic brothers and nuns and, like him, people who'd been in the workforce. “When I learned I had been accepted I was thrilled at the prospect, when for so long I felt a university education was a glittering priz...
In Print – The Shadow Girl by alumnus John Larkin
This heartbreaking story is inspired by real life. The narrator – the shadow girl – is homeless and on the run, at just 13 years old. Her parents have disappeared, leaving her in the care (and at the mercy) of her uncle and aunt. She sleeps in rail yards, sand dunes and abandoned houses – but tricks her way into a new school, where she pretends to have a family. The Shadow Girl is an ...