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Mary Barkas: a New Zealand pioneer at the Maudsley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2016

Robert M. Kaplan
Robert M. Kaplan*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Medicine, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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*Address for correspondence: Robert M. Kaplan, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Wollongong, 2 Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW 2502, Australia. (Email: rob@rmkaplan.com.au)
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Abstract

Objective

An account of the life of pioneer New Zealand psychiatrist Mary Barkas.

Conclusion

At a time when women were rare in psychiatry, New Zealand-born Mary Barkas excelled. A pioneer in the early years of the Maudsley Hospital, Barkas demonstrated her versatility in organic psychiatry, psychoanalysis and child psychiatry. Her career was terminated at an early stage and her life took a puzzling turn after she returned to New Zealand in 1933. Many questions about this intriguing and accomplished psychiatrist need to be explored.

Keywords

Encephalitis lethargicaMary BarkasMaudsley HospitalNew Zealandpsychoanalysis
Type
Historical Paper
Information
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , September 2017 , pp. 205 - 208
Copyright
© College of Psychiatrists of Ireland 2016 

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