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1Victorian Aboriginal Health Service and St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. mmgduke@bigpond.net.au
Objective:
The aim of this paper was to survey the writings by Western-trained and other psychiatrists and mental health professionals about Aboriginal peoples of Australia.
Method:
A literature survey of works by psychiatrists and Aboriginal people from 1788 to the mid-1990s was undertaken.
Results:
There is a dearth of literature until the 1960s when there is an upsurge which continues to grow.
Conclusions:
There has been an exponential growth of interest in Aboriginal and psychiatric perspectives since the 1960s. Some suggestions are made to explain this.
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