Pamela Nathan

Pamela Nathan is a clinical and forensic psychologist and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with more than 40 years of experience working across prisons, courts, forensic services, public health, and private practice. She has lived and worked in central Australia and continues to consult with Aboriginal communities through CASSE – Creating A Safe and Supportive Environment – a psychoanalytically informed not-for-profit organisation based in Alice Springs.
Pamela has authored three previous books – A Home Away from Home, Health Business, and Settle Down Country (with accompanying film) – and published over 30 papers in forensic and clinical psychology, sociology, Aboriginal health, trauma, and psychotherapy. She is committed to amplifying the voices of her clients—whether they be inmates, patients, or Aboriginal people—and making psychological insight accessible and deeply human.
A founding board member of both the Australian Forensic Psychotherapy Association and CASSE, she is also a member of VAPP, PPFA, and APS. Throughout her career, Pamela has shared her work at numerous conferences and in publications, always with the goal of telling untold stories and revealing the human truths beneath crime and suffering.