title: HK Fry: an early contributor to Australian psychiatry.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the contribution of HK Fry to early Australian psychiatry.
  
  
  METHODS
  A brief biographical review and an examination of Fry's published work.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Fry provided not only insightful research in to what he described as 'Aboriginal mentality', but he also promoted a consideration of psychological factors in general medical therapeutics.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  HK Fry warrants recognition as a significant contributor in the history of Australian psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. robert.goldney@adelaide.edu.au
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goldney
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D005008:Ethnopsychology / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans