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Australia's national mental health strategy in historical perspective: beyond the frontier

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Alan Rosen
Alan Rosen*
Affiliation:
Royal North Shore Hospital and Community Mental Health Services, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, email arosen@nsccahs.health.nsw.gov.au
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The history of Australian psychiatry is entwined with the impact of European (British) invasion and settlement, initially in 1788, to form penal colonies to alleviate the overcrowding of English jails, which generated a masculine-dominated, individualistic culture. As European settlement in Australia expanded, the colonisers tried to come to terms with this remote, vast landscape and fought over land and resources with the original Aboriginal inhabitants, who had been there between 40000 and 60000 years. Australian psychiatry was profiled in a previous article in International Psychiatry (issue 10, October 2005).

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International Psychiatry , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 19 - 21
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