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About Dr George Blair-West

Dr George Blair-West is a psychiatrist in private practice in Brisbane. He is semi-retired and no longer taking new patients as he has a large practice of existing patients that he needs to be able to ...

Special interests

Psychotherapy, trauma and relationships.

Qualifications

MB BS (Bachelor Medicine Bachelor of Surgery) QLD, 1983
FRANZCP (Fellow Royal Australian New Zealand College of Psychiatrists) 1990
LFOPATS (Life Fellow Obesity Prevention and Treatment Society)

Awards and Publications

Blair-West GW. Weight Loss for Food Lovers: Understanding our minds and why we sabotage our weight loss. (Australia 2006, Netherlands 2007, New Zealand 2007, UK & Europe 2008, China 2010)
 
Blair-West GW & Blair-West Penny. Taste with your face, Food Loving Kids (UK 2009, Australia 2010)

Invited Presentation, International Congress on Obesity: Blair-West GW. Tantalus, Restraint Theory, and the Low-Sacrifice Diet: The Art of Reverse Abstraction. Medscape General Medicine. 2007;9(4):18.
 
Blair-West GW, Mellsop GW.  Major Depression: does a gender-based down-rating of suicide risk challenge its diagnostic validity? Australian & New Zealand J of Psychiatry. 2001:35:322-30.
 
Blair-West GW.  Management and Leadership, first and foremost are interpersonal processes. Employment Queensland 2000:24:29.
 
Blair-West GW, Cantor CH, Mellsop GW, Eyeson-Annan.  Lifetime suicide risk and major depression: Sex and Age Determinants.  Journal of Affective Disorders 1999:55:171-8.
 
Blair-West GW, Mellsop GW, Piaggio P.  Integration or ‘Integration’. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 1998, April 32:308-11.
 
Blair-West GW, Mellsop GW, Eyeson-Annan ML. Down-rating Lifetime Suicide Risk in Major Depression. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 1997: 95:259-263.
 
Mellsop GW, Blair-West GW, Duraiappah V. The Effect of A New Integrated Mental Health Service on Hospitalization, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 1997; 31:480-483.

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