Peter O'Connor

Who is Peter O'Connor?

Peter A. O’Connor is a psychologist with a private psychotherapy practice in Melbourne, Australia.

O'Connor was born in Melbourne in 1942. A graduate of Melbourne University, he was Director of Counselling at the Marriage Guidance Council of Victoria for seven years. In 1972 he was awarded the Winston Churchill Fellowship and completed a PhD in marriage and family counselling at the University of Southern California. He has held several academic and clinical positions in Australia and overseas. O'Connor has had a longstanding involvement in working therapeutically with men and is a former columnist with the Good Weekend magazine.

O'Connor is the author of a number of books, including Mirror on Marriage, Understanding Jung, Dreams and the Search for Meaning, The Inner Man, Looking Inwards and Understanding the Mid-Life Crisis which is his best-known and most influential work.