Dr Traill Dowie
Dr Traill Dowie is an interdisciplinary philosopher, academic, and clinician who holds dual PhDs in Psychiatry and Philosophy. He is an Associate Professor of Psychotherapy at Ikon Institute of Australia, a Research Fellow at Australian National University in the School of Medicine and Psychology, and a Research Fellow in Philosophy at La Trobe University.
With over 25 years of clinical experience, Dr Dowie has worked extensively in both private practice and institutional settings, specialising in the treatment of complex presentations and trauma. He is a co-founder of Integrative Attachment Therapy (IAT), a specialist international training program for adult attachment repair, originally developed at Harvard University. Dr Dowie also chaired the Australian Counselling Association’s Trauma Standards Panel and was responsible for developing the first major training program in psychedelic-assisted therapy in Australia.
He currently serves as the lead therapist and supervisor on a number of clinical trials at Australian National University. As an interdisciplinary thinker, Dr Dowie is committed to applying rigorous philosophical inquiry to real-world clinical challenges.
His work explores the intersection of the clinical and the philosophical, with a central focus on violence and trauma, philosophy of mind, and their implications for therapeutic practice. Core to his intellectual pursuits are questions concerning the capacities, tensions, and limitations of imagination, agency, and autonomy in human life and clinical work.