S4E7: The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius with Dr. Brent Willock

Dr. Brent Willock earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan. After serving on staff for several years in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical Center, he relocated to Toronto, becoming Chief Psychologist at a clinical/teaching facility associated with the University of Toronto (C.M. Hincks Treatment Centre, now part of the Hospital for Sick Children). He was Adjunct Faculty, York University, and Associate Faculty Member, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto. 

He is Past President of the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and served on the Board of the Canadian Institute for Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He is a faculty member in the Postgraduate Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at Adelphi University’s Derner School of Psychology, Writing Mentor for the Washington Psychoanalytic Foundation’s New Directions in Psychoanalytic Thinking Program,  Associate Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, and has contributed many articles and book chapters. He is author of Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis, and The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius, and edited several books that received Gradiva and Goethe Awards.

His many contributions have been honored by the Ontario Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, the Canadian Psychological Association, the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, the University of Chicago, the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Last year, an article he wrote ("On Dreaming, Parasomnia, Dream Enactment, and Murder") for a journal of the American Psychological Association received the Gradiva Award for best article of the year.