Psychiatry: A Biography of Psychiatry
A Biography of Psychiatry
A Biography of Psychiatry
The story of events and the people involved in the development of services for the psychiatrically ill in South Australia 1939 - 1989
W. A. Dibden
1914 - 1993
Dedicated to all those people, named and unnamed,
who made the telling of this story possible.
The family of the late Dr Dibden have generously given permission for this document to be made available on the University of Adelaide Library website.
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Contents
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PROLOGUE
CHAPTER 1 An Introduction to Psychiatry - 1939 - 1956
CHAPTER 2 BC - "Before Cramond"
CHAPTER 3 In pursuit of prevention
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
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CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8 Director of Mental Health Services
CHAPTER 9 The Security Hospital, Northfield
CHAPTER 10 The Origins of the new Mental Health Act
CHAPTER 11 The Evolution of the new Mental Health Act
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
EPILOGUE
NOTES - page 245 |
List of Appendices, and Accompanying Files
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Letters, Programme, Committee of SponsorsPlans Appendix I Appendix II Appendix III Appendix IV Appendix V Appendix VI |
Appendix VII Appendix VIII Appendix IX Appendix X Appendix XI Appendix XII |
- Appendix I.1Reports on visits to mental hospitals South Australian Association for Mental Health. Memoranda 1-2
- Appendix I.2Reports on visits to mental hospitals South Australian Association for Mental Health. Memoranda 3-4
- Appendix II.1Uniform principles involved in mental health legislation
- Appendix II.2Position statement on the civil rights of psychiatric patients
- Appendix IIIFirst report of the Committee to Review and Make Recommendations in Regard to the Mental Health Act 1935-69
- Appendix IVSecond report of the Committee to Review and Make Recommendations in Regard to the Mental Health Act 1935-69
- Appendix VSeminar on proposed new Mental Health Act - opening remarks
- Appendix VIFinal report of the Committee Appointed to Review and Make Recommendations in Regard to the Mental Health Act 6.1 Preamble and Treatment and protection of the mentally ill 6.2 Care and protection of the mentally handicapped
- Appendix VII.1A bill for an Act...First draft [Prepared by the Parliamentary Counsel] 2/7/76
- Appendix VII.2A bill for an Act...First draft [Prepared by the Parliamentary Counsel] 2/7/76
- Appendix VII.3A bill for an Act...First draft [Prepared by the Parliamentary Counsel] 2/7/76
- Appendix VIIIA bill for an Act..Second draft..contents [Prepared by the Parliamentary Counsel] 15/7/76 A bill for an Act..Third draft..contents [Prepared by the Parliamentary Counsel] 4/8/76 A bill for an Act..Final draft..contents [Prepared by the Parli
- Appendix IXMental Health Bill [Second reading speech, House of Assembly, October 14, 1976]
- Appendix X.1Mental Health Bill [As laid on the table and read a first time, 14th October, 1976]
- Appendix X.2Mental Health Bill [As laid on the table and read a first time, 14th October, 1976]
- Appendix XI.1Report of the Select Committee on the Mental Health Bill, 1976
- Appnedix XI.2Report of the Select Committee on the Mental Health Bill, 1976
- Appendix XII.1The Mental Health Act, 1976-77
- Appendix XII.2The Mental Health Act, 1976-77