Australian clinical psychologist, writer and human rights advocate
Alice Eve-Marie SpigelmanAM is a Hungarian-born Australian clinical psychologist, writer and human rights advocate. She is currently chair of Sculpture by the Sea. Her most recent book is The Budapest Job, a thriller set in 1989, at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union. She has written a play A Kind of Reunion, to be premiered in Sydney, NSW in December 2020.
Early life and education
Spigelman was born in Hungary[1] and came to Sydney with her family in 1956.[2] On arrival in Sydney, with little English, she started school at Santa Sabina College. She has a BA and MA and a postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology from the University of Sydney.[3]
Career
Following publication of her biography of architect Harry Seidler, Spigelman gave a speech on him at The Sydney Institute in April 2011 which was subsequently published in Sydney Papers, vol. 13, no. 2 in 2001.[4][5]