Section: Overview
Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career

Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Psychodynamic therapy
  • Professional ethics
  • Psychoanalytic theory and practice
  • Interview-based qualitative research

Available to supervise research students

Not available for media queries

About Gavin Ivey

Gavin trained as a clinical psychologist at Rhodes University, South Africa, and went on to lecture and supervise trainee psychologists at various South African universities. He migrated to Australia in 2010 and is currently the Clinical Psychology Masters Course Chair at VU, as well as Director of Professional Postgraduate Psychology Programs. Gavin is registered as a clinically endorsed psychologist and clinical supervisor with the Psychology Board of Australia.

Gavin’s teaching and research interests concern the process of adult individual psychotherapy, particularly the unconscious influences on the psychotherapy relationship, and the teaching, learning, and supervision of psychodynamic psychotherapy. He is also involved in migrant psychology and gender research, with a focus on conflicted masculinities. Gavin is primarily a qualitative researcher, using psychosocial inquiry, auto-ethnography, thematic analysis, and interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore the nuances, layering and complexity of experience. He also practises part-time as a psychodynamic psychotherapist and clinical supervisor. 

Gavin teaches Research Methods, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Professional Ethics, Child Observation, and Reflective Practice to postgraduates, and Introduction to Psychoanalysis at undergraduate level. He also supervises clinical masters students’ psychotherapy case work. In his research supervisor capacity, Gavin works with honours, masters and PhD students conducting qualitative research projects.

Gavin is an elected fellow of the College of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and is a member of the Glen Nevis Clinic Research Subcommittee, as well as the Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network. He is a reviewer for ten local and international scholarly journals.

Qualifications

  • Ph.D.
  • Master of Social Science (Clinical Psychology)

Key publications

Year Citation
2024 Shevlin, A., & Ivey, G. (240401). The discursive construction of self-diagnosed pornography addiction . Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 33(1), (86-98).

doi: 10.3138/cjhs-2023-0034

2024 Syed, N., Shearson, K. M., Hosking, W., Gill, P. R., Ivey, G., & Sharples, J. M. (240101). Custody Dissatisfaction and Conformity to Masculine Norms as Risk Factors in Male Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: Findings from a National Australian Survey. Violence and Gender,

doi: 10.1089/vio.2022.0050

2023 Grady, J., Dean, S., Godfrey, C., Beaufoy, J., Pullen, J., Smale, S., Hill, C., Ivey, G., & Tonge, B. (231201). The Melbourne Study of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy II: Patients' and psychotherapists' perspectives on expectations, therapeutic experience and benefits. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 20(4), (573-595).

doi: 10.1002/aps.1850

2023 Dean, S., Tonge, B., Beaufoy, J., Godfrey, C., Grady, J., Pullen, J., Smale, S., Hill, C., Ivey, G., & Taffe, J. (231201). The Melbourne Study of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy low-cost clinic I: Implementation, mental health and life functioning gains. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 20(4), (551-572).

doi: 10.1002/aps.1847

2023 Grady, J., Dean, S., Godfrey, C., Beaufoy, J., Pullen, J., Hill, C., Ivey, G., & Tonge, B. (231201). The Melbourne Study of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy III: Patients' and psychotherapists perspectives on progress and challenges. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 20(4), (596-618).

doi: 10.1002/aps.1852

2023 Gill, P. R., Arena, M., Rainbow, C., Hosking, W., Shearson, K. M., Ivey, G., & Sharples, J. (231201). Social connectedness and suicidal ideation: the roles of perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness in the distress to suicidal ideation pathway. BMC Psychology, 11(1),

doi: 10.1186/s40359-023-01338-5

2023 Boyd, F., & Ivey, G. (230101). Child observation and emotional discomfort: the experience of trainee psychologists. Infant Observation, 26(1-2), (81-102).

doi: 10.1080/13698036.2023.2179522

2023 Ivey, G., & Denmeade, L. (230101). Trainee psychologists experiences of learning and conducting psychodynamic therapy via telepsychology. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 37(2), (155-178).

doi: 10.1080/02668734.2022.2158210

2023 Ivey, G. (230101). Interpreting hidden meaning in qualitative research interview data: opportunities and challenges. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 20(1), (21-51).

doi: 10.1080/14780887.2022.2067509

2022 Griffin, L., Hosking, W., Gill, P. R., Shearson, K., Ivey, G., & Sharples, J. (220901). The Gender Paradox: Understanding the Role of Masculinity in Suicidal Ideation. American Journal of Men's Health, 16(5),

doi: 10.1177/15579883221123853

Research funding for the past 5 years

Please note:

  • Funding is ordered by the year the project commenced and may continue over several years.
  • Funding amounts for contact research are not disclosed to maintain commercial confidentiality.
  • The order of investigators is not indicative of the role they played in the research project.

Evaluation of the gender equality through the Arts Grants Program
From: VicHealth, VU Internal Funding
Other investigators: Dr Kim Shearson, Prof Christopher Sonn, Prof Jenny Sharples
For period: 2019-2020
Not disclosed

Supervision of research students at VU

Available to supervise research students

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Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
1 PhD Associate supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (1) Associate supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
1 PhD Principal supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (1) Principal supervisor

Other supervision of research students

Primary supervisor for one PhD student at Monash University, Department of Psychiatry.

Careers

Details of this Researcher's career are currently unavailable.