about Jim Crawley
Qualifications
I originally trained in the UK as a psychiatric social worker. My undergraduate degree was in sociology (at University of Exeter) followed by graduate professional training in psychiatric social work at the London School of Economics (University of London). I also have graduate degrees in social policy and in theology. My training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy was undertaken 1993-2000 with the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Western Australia (APPWA), a member organisation of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australasia (PPAA).
Professional experience
My early career in the UK involved working in adult and child psychiatric clinics, and then lecturing in social work at the Middlesex Polytechnic (now Middlesex University). This was followed by 10 years as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Philip Institute of Technology (now RMIT University) in Melbourne, where I taught couple and family therapy and group leadership.
From 1984-90 I was Executive Director of the Marriage Guidance Council of WA (now Relationships Australia), and then established my private psychotherapy practice in 1990. From 1994-2002 I held a part-time lecturing position at Edith Cowan University, teaching on the graduate programme in counselling and psychotherapy.
Professional Memberships
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Member, Australian Association of Social Workers
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Clinical Member, Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Western Australia (APPWA) ~ member of the Training Committee
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From 1998-2002: Inaugural President of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)
Spirituality and spiritual direction
Apart from my professional work as a psychotherapist, I am also an ordained minister in the Anglican Church. I have a particular interest in issues of religious experience and spirituality in psychotherapy, and in the different but related field of spiritual direction.
Publications
Recent publications include: 
Grant, J. and Crawley, J. (2002). Transference and Projection: Mirrors to the Self. London, Open University Press.
(Chinese edition, McGraw-Hill & Peking University Medical Press, 2009)
Shaw, E. and Crawley, J. (eds.). (2007) Couple Therapy in Australia: issues emerging from practice. Melbourne, PsychOz Publications.
Crawley, J. and Grant, J. (2008). Couple Therapy: the self in the relationship. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
(Spanish edition published 2011)
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Crawley, J. (1998). Couples Therapy: unravelling the strands; Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy; Vol. 19, No. 4.
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Grant, J. and Crawley, J. (2001). The self in the couple relationship (Part 1). Journal of Psychodynamic Counselling; Vol. 7, No. 4.
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Crawley, J. and Grant, J. (2001). The self in the couple relationship (Part 2). Journal of Psychodynamic Counselling; Vol. 7, No. 4.
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Schofield, M. and Crawley, J. (eds.). (2006). But Does it Work? Exploring Effectiveness in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Proceedings of PACFA National Conference, August 2005; Melbourne: PACFA (published electronically as a CD).
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Crawley, J. and Grant, J. (2005). Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples and Attachment Theory. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Vol. 26, No. 2.