As a psychoanalyst, Chris seeks to create a non-judgemental space in which thoughts, both conscious and unconscious, can be explored. While there are techniques and ethics for conducting a treatment, ultimately there is no formulaic approach, the patient is a unique and singular being, so the psychoanalysis must be reinvented with every new patient.

Before becoming a psychoanalyst, Chris designed exhibitions. His exhibitions presented stories of immigration which often involved loss, trauma and notions of identity. He also designed exhibitions featuring antiquities from Ancient Greece, Rome and the Middle East, as well as Australian history and innovations in medical science.

Chris has a sustained interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, having first become interested in psychoanalysis in the 1990’s when studying Fine Arts and Design. He began his education at the Rietveld Académie in Amsterdam and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT Melbourne in 2002. His research was focused on notions of space, particularly the body in space, and the body as a space. This formative introduction to psychoanalytic concepts of space has led to an exploration of Jacques Lacan’s use of topology to understand the formation of the human subject.