Dean Quirke
Dean Quirke
Dean specialises in men’s health and wellbeing, primary prevention education and community development. His area of expertise is in the use of behavioural science and primary prevention strategies to help empower boys and men.
He has worked and partnered with key stakeholders within the community to tackle a variety of social issues that impact the lives of young men, including domestic violence, community, youth violence, suicide, social isolation, addictions, unemployment and lack of purpose and direction.
In 2018, Dean consulted with the Department of Veteran Affairs (DVA) as an experienced Community Support Advisor, delivering key health initiatives to promote health and wellbeing amongst the veteran community.
In his role with DVA, he provided advice in planning, developing, implementing and evaluating programs such as the Men’s Health Peer Support program, which assists DVA in its commitment to the DVA Social Health Strategy 2015–2023. www.facebook.com/toxiclovecommunity
Toxic Love
Are you a victim of domestic abuse? Or do you desire to stop abusing your intimate partner? Do you simply want to understand what motivates an abusive perpetrator to reoffend? If so, this ground-breaking book is for you.
With their innovative approach, clinical psychologist Indira Haracic-Novic and men’s health expert Dean Quirke shed new light on the epidemic of domestic violence against women.
Instead of viewing spousal or intimate partner abuse as the sole result of power and control tactics, the authors invite readers to explore the repetitive patterns of abusive behaviour – which tend to escalate in frequency and severity – within a behavioural addiction paradigm.
They have consolidated their expertise in this book, assisting victims to heal from the trauma of abuse, and to prevent it from happening in future relationships.
Reaching out to men who want to stop abusing their loved ones, Haracic-Novic and Quirke also provide strategies to break free from their repetitive patterns of abusive behaviour. By dismantling the dangerous aspects of the personality that may have become addicted to abusing their partners, victims and perpetrators become freer to create healthier loving relationships.
'Indira and Dean have compiled a thought-provoking masterpiece that compels the reader to take a fresh look at the addictive cycle of violence; repetitive behaviour patterns and the build-up of tolerance. Toxic love is an informative discourse and will be useful to a wide audience; victims, perpetrators and therapists as well. The wisdom in this work reflects the authors expertise and profound understanding of the human psyche.'
P. Fernandez, Clinical Psychologist
'Toxic Love shines a light on understanding the motivations for a perpetrator to abuse their partners, how it develops into such a pattern, why victims can't leave and how people can change. Highly recommend this book! A great read for everyone to gain a deeper insight into toxic love and its underpinnings.'
Julia Green, Health Squad
'Having worked in men's development for many years I've been very concerned about men that commit domestic violence. As a result, I interviewed the co-author of Toxic Love, Dean Quirke, and we explored domestic violence from a man's point of view. His and Indira's book was in development when we did the interviews and now it's released I can see the depth of thinking and experience that has gone into it. I'm sure it will become a valued resource as their new concepts are digested and tested by practitioners in the field.' See the interviews on this URL https://cant2can.com/tag/dean-quirke/
Hilton Barr, Director of Cant-2-Can
