Annual General Meeting & Dinner 2025
WHEN: 19 September 2025 at 6:00PM
WHERE: Claremont Hotel, Grevillea Room
1 Bay View Terrace, Claremont WA 6010
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr Marc Joffe
Dr Marc Joffe is a Clinical Psychologist with more than 30 years of experience, both locally and internationally. Clinical work and professional teaching, training and mentoring have always been at the center of his professional life. While currently in independent private practice in West Perth, Marc has held the following professional roles over time: Dean of Arts and Law in private tertiary education; Head of Department, Psychology, Industrial Psychology and Social work; Hostage Negotiator and Crisis Intervention Specialist in a Police Service; Lecturer; Clinical Trainer; Board Approved Supervisor; Visiting Supervisor, Eating Disorders Program, PMH; Senior Clinical Psychologist, Residential Care, DCP; Medico-legal consultant; architect of EAP services; and Clinical Trainer and Consultant to a number of industries including advertising, oil and gas, mining, public utilities, rehabilitation services, police services, and the military.
Topic: "Chair Work - where the blood and guts of Dentistry and Psychology overlap."
Psychologically speaking, there are two, and occasionally three critical periods of vulnerability when a patient engages with dental and specialist dental services. The first, it could be argued, is when the patient is in the chair about to undergo a procedure – this extends for the duration of the procedure; the second is when the patient must pay for the service; and the third is when a patient might elect to complain about a service provider. The presentation outlines a psychological technology known as projective identification, based on Psychoanalytic developmental theory, which explains some of the less obvious forces at play in these moments; it provides some understanding tools; and it also provides some selfmanagement tools for the practitioner. While the presentation sounds terribly serious it is also designed to entertain.
Schedule:
6:00pm: Pre-dinner drinks
6:30pm: Guests seated
6:45pm: AGM, lecture, dinner
10:00pm: Finish
