Psychiatric treatment and services in Australia, 1914-1994.
Eighty years ago, psychiatrists believed that mental illnesses were caused by, among other things, excessive devotion to sport, the introduction of phones and motor cars, ill-sorted marriages and perverted sexual intercourse. Psychiatric theories and institutions in Australia have come a long way since then.
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