Endnotes
1. My thanks go to Sebastian Gurciullo at PROV and the two referees who provided very useful and constructive feedback on earlier drafts of this article.
2. H Herman, S Saxena & R Moodie, Promoting mental health. Concepts. Evidence. Practice. A report of the World Health Organization, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse in collaboration with the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation and the University of Melbourne, World Health Organisation, Geneva, 2005.
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4. Cited in EB Brody, 'The World Federation for Mental Health: its origins and contemporary relevance to WHO and WPA policies', World Psychiatry, vol. 3, no. 1, February 2004, pp. 54-5.
5. Minutes of Council Meetings of the Australian Association of Psychiatrists, 8 June 1948, Series 10, held at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
6. WD Rubinstein & HL Rubinstein, Menders of the mind: a history of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 1946-1996, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1996, p. 19.
7. J Damousi, Freud in the Antipodes: a cultural history of psychoanalysis in Australia, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2005, p. 249.
8. Letter from Alexander Kennedy to CP Gartside, PROV, VA 629 Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel, (previously known as Parliamentary Draftsman, 1879 to 1970), VPRS 10265/P0 Parliamentary Counsel Bill Files, Unit 386 Mental Hygiene EB 298, 27 October 1949.
9. PROV, VA 652 Health Commission of Victoria, VPRS 6345/P0 General Correspondence Files, Unit 28, Item 500/2 Pt. 2 Mental Hygiene - Appointment of Members.
10. Age, 29 December 1951, p. 3.
11. Argus, 20 July 1951, p. 2.
12. Letter from EC Dax to WO Fulton, PROV, VPRS 6345/P0, Unit 421, Item 1094 Mental Health Advisory Committee Reports, 21 July 1952.
13. Mental Hygiene Authority Annual Report, 1955, p. 7.
14. EC Dax to Minister for Health, PROV, VPRS 6345/P0, Unit 86, Item 556 Mental Hygiene Information Bureau, 27 November 1952.
15. EC Dax, Asylum to Community, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1961, pp. 185-7.
16. Human Services Archives, Minutes of the Mental Hygiene Authority, 98/352/1, meeting held 2 November 1960.
17. Dax, op. cit., p. 148.
18. Mental Hygiene Authority Annual Report, 1959, p. 7.
19. Dax, Asylum to Community, pp. 87-94.
20. P Beilharz, M Considine & R Watts, Arguing about the welfare state: the Australian experience, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1992, p. 109.
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22. C Syme & L Townsend, Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Hospital and Health Services in Victoria, Melbourne, 1975, p. 58.
23. JFJ Cade, Mending the mind: a short history of twentieth century psychiatry, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1979, p. 50.
24. ibid, p. 77.
25. Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Archives, Minutes of meeting held 12 October 1959.
26. G Rosen, Madness in society: chapters in the historical sociology of mental illness, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968, pp. 326-7.
27. DA Hamburg (ed.), Psychiatry as a behavioural science, Prentice-Hill, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1970, p. 2.
28. ibid., p. 36.
29. J Krupinski et al., A community health survey of the rural town of Heyfield, Victoria, Australia, MHA, Melbourne, 1970.
30. RANZCP archives, minutes of Council meeting 4 May 1969.
31. N McConaghy, Liberation movements and psychiatry: Geigy Psychiatric Symposium, Ciba-Geigy, Sydney, 1974.
32. A history of the Richmond Fellowship is available on the Mind Australia website, while the history of the Schizophrenia Fellowship can be found on the website of Mental Illness Fellowship Victoria (both accessed 30 August 2008).
33. See PROV, VA 2838 Mental Hygiene Authority, VPRS 8787/P1 Alphabetical Subject Index to General Correspondence Files (Mental Health), Unit 1, which contains a file on the Victorian Association of Psychiatric Patients (81/181); Unit 2, which contains files on the Campaign Against Psychiatric Injustice (82/72) and the Patients Complaints Council (81/173).
34. Syme & Townsend, op. cit.
35. PROV, VPRS 6345/P0, Unit 470 Victorian Council on Mental Hygiene, File No. 2, letter from the Victorian Mental Hygiene Council to the Minister for Health, 8 July 1975.
36. ibid., letter from David Fearon, President of the VMHC to Major General Sir Rohan Delacombe, 23 August 1971.
37. Letter from Steve Crabb to VO Dickie, PROV, VPRS 6345/P0, Unit 369, Item 662/2 Larundel Mental Hospital General Correspondence, 19 June 1978.
38. PROV, VPRS 6345/P0, Unit 536, Item 2109 Social Welfare Department - Inter Departmental Committee, Minutes of meeting of Health Department/Social Welfare Committee 25 October 1978.
39. Dax, 'Are we treating the wrong patients?', in R Ball (ed.), Ethics in relation to psychiatric practice: proceedings of the conference, 1st July 1983, Fitzroy, Victoria, St Vincent's Hospital, [1983], pp. 2-17.
40. Advisory Committee on Volunteers, Volunteer and self-help groups in mental health and retardation fields: seminar October 3rd 1981, The Committee, Prahran, Victoria, 1981.
41. PROV, VPRS 6345/P0, Unit 622, Item 81/174 Health Promotion, 'Report on Working Party on Health Promotion', 13 February 1981.
42. ibid., memo from P Mundy to J Bennie, 25 February 1981.
43. ibid., memo to Deputy Secretary, Health Commission, 20 February 1980.
44. ibid., report by JL Evans on Health Promotion, 26 November 1980.
45. Social Development Committee, Parliament of Victoria, Report Upon the Inquiry into the Future Use of Willsmere Hospital, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1985, pp. 95-100.
46. ibid., p. 96.
47. The Better Health Commission Interim Report, Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1986.
48. G Burrows, 'Mental health community awareness', in The mental health status of the nation, Australian National Association for Mental Health, National Conference, 23 and 24 August 1988, pp. 17-20.
49. PROV, VA 898 Essendon City, VPRS 12751/P1 General Correspondence Files, Multiple Number System, Unit 94, Item 315/1/16 Pt 1 Office of Psychiatric Services Mental Health Services, Community Mental Health Service in Essendon 1987-89, Discussion Paper 'Community Mental Health Services', 1 February 1989.
50. Rubinstein & Rubinstein, op cit., p. 165.
51. Hickie et al., op. cit., p. 401.
52. P Pichot, A century of psychiatry, F Hoffmann-La Roche and Co., Basel, 1983, p. 177.
53. A Scull, The insanity of place/the place of insanity: essays on the history of psychiatry, Routledge, London, 2006, see Chapter 9, 'Psychiatry and social control in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'.
54. R Porter, Madness: a brief history, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002, p. 214.
55. ibid., pp. 217-18.
56. Department of Human Services, Because mental health matters. A new focus for mental health and wellbeing, consultation paper, Melbourne, 2008.