Dr Christopher Wurm

Dr Christopher Wurm

MBBS FRACGP FAChAM

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Some other projects include:

• Founding Vice President, Viktor Frankl Institute of Australia (2017-2018)

• Chair, Mental Health Network Healthfirst (2010-2013)

• Visiting fellow, Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide

• Fellow, Australian College of Psychological Medicine

• Fellow, Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine

• Corresponding Member, the Gesellschaft für Logotherapie un Existenzanalyse (GLE-international) since 1988

• Co-Editor: Living your own life: existential analysis in action.

• Invited speaker at biennial conference of GLE Russia, Moscow 2019: Intoxication, Shame, Regret, and Recovery: Existential Aspects of Alcohol and Other Drug Use

• Debate at 2nd World Congress of Existential Therapy, Buenos Aires 2019: Are different cultures a barrier or an opening to change?

• Roundtable on Logotherapeutic Approaches at 2nd World Congress of Existential Therapy 2019: Self-transcendence and substance use: the missing ingredient in recovery?

• Author: How much does alcohol-related brain damage extend length of stay in alcohol-related liver disease?

• Author: Is addiction a useful concept? An existential view.

• Author: Evidence and existentialism in addiction

• Poster, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Congress 2009: Existential themes and goal-setting in ‘recovery’ and related aproaches

Dr Christopher Wurm is a specialist in addiction medicine and an accredited counsellor in logotherapy and existential analysis in Adelaide, South Australia.

His work in education includes his role as Visiting Fellow, Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, where he lectures third-year medical students and psychiatry trainees. He also co-presents several blocks of “AOD Live” for the RACGP Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) GP Education program, and is a Senior Consultant for Central Adelaide Local Health Network Hospital Avoidance and Supported Discharge Service.

Chris is one of Australia’s leading experts in logotherapy and existential analysis, having been a corresponding member for the Gesellschaft für Logotherapie un Existenzanalyse (GLE-international) since 1988 and, more recently, the founding Vice President of the Viktor Frankl Institute of Australia in 2017-2018. He often combines this expertise with his interest in alcohol and drug medicine, both in his presentations at conferences locally and internationally and in his publications.

His publications include articles in professional journals and two book chapters. He is also co-editor of the book Living Your Own Life: Existential Analysis in Action.