Anne Buist is an Australian researcher and practising psychiatrist specializing in women's mental health, in particular postpartum psychiatric illnesses.
[citation needed] Buist has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and "Psychiatric Disorders Associated with Children" (1995)[3] She is also the past president of the Australasian Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health.,[4] and was the director of the Beyond Blue postnatal depression program from 2001 to 2005.
[citation needed] Buist has written novels in the genres of crime and erotica, and also a psychiatric text.
The first of these was Medea’s Curse (which shortlisted for the Davitt Awards (Best Adult Novel and Best Debut Crime categories).
[11] Medea’s Curse has been optioned by Causeway Films and Two Steps Forward by Fox Searchlight with Ellen DeGeneres' A Very Good Production to produce.