Lessons from history: the first 25 years of psychiatric hospitals in South Australia.
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this paper is to examine an 1862 report of the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum and commentary on its establishment.


CONCLUSIONS
Many of the administrative issues surrounding psychiatric practice then remain pertinent today.
Goldney
Robert
R
Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. robert.goldney@adelaide.edu.au
D001294:Attitude to Health; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D013021:South Australia