Psychiatrist, Melbourne

Martien Snellen (MBBS, MPM, FRANZCP) is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Private Practice and Public Appointment Consulting to the Mercy Hospital for Women, Melbourne. He works mainly in the field of Parent-Infant Psychiatry with a psychotherapeutic focus to treatment.

Martien has published in academic journals in the areas of: The relationship between schizophrenia, mental state, and mother-infant interaction, the function of specialist mother-baby units, postpartum sexuality, antenatal care and mental illness and models of psychotherapy in the psychiatric mother and baby setting. He is the author of Sex & Intimacy after Childbirth: Reclaiming Desire in Your Relationship (Text Publishing 2005).