Dr George Blair-West is an author and medical doctor specialising in psychiatry who for twenty years has sub-specialised in just relationship therapy and treating trauma. George’s writing career began 25 years ago with scientific publications on suicide and depression while a Senior Lecturer with the University of Queensland. This work resulted in his admission to the New York Academy of Sciences in 1998. A variety of lay articles and five books followed.

Dr Blair-West sees his therapy and writing on preventing long-term relationship breakdown as central to his life’s work as a therapist and an author. His book ‘How to make the biggest decision of your life – Unlocking the secrets to a healthy lasting relationship‘, builds on his talk on TED.com now with over 4 million views. (While launched in Australia in early 2021 during the pandemic, it’s international launch has been delayed until 2023.)

His bestselling first book, Weight Loss for Food Lovers: Understanding our minds and why we sabotage our weight loss, was the first book to comprehensively review the research into Restraint Theory, the correlates of sustained weight loss and the psychology of exercise and then formulate the clinical application of these and other psychological findings into patient care. Weight Loss for Food Lovers is now published in every English-speaking country in the world and has been translated into Dutch and Chinese. This was followed by a children’s book co-authored with his wife, Penny, a clinical psychologist.

His third book, the award-winning, THE WAY OF THE QUEST released in 2012 is a “self-help novel” set in the time of Queen Elizabeth. It is all about the importance of finding one’s meaning and purpose in life as seen through the eyes of young man and his adventures training as knight on Mont St Michel. The book is designed to help people develop their self-confidence through showing them how to find what they are passionate about and how to make sense of how to live their best life.

He, and his psychologist wife of 34 years, Penny, live in Brisbane, Australia and have two children.