Australian Dictionary of Biography

12 August 1897
Rose Park, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

27 December 1955
Prahran, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Anglican

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• Reed, John Harford (friend)
• Reed, Lelda Sunday (friend)
• Geroe, Clara Lazar (work colleague)
• Burgmann, Ernest Henry (acquaintance)
• Osborne, William Alexander (mentor)
• Menzies, Robert Gordon (lawyer)
• Hayes, Herbert Edward Elton (patient)
• Sodeman, Arnold Karl (patient)

• St Peter's College (Adelaide) (student, 1909-1914)
• University of Melbourne (student, 1920-1930)

• poet (1918-1955) Victoria, Australia
• soldier (1918-1918) Federal, Australia
• mental health practitioner (1923-1955) Victoria, Australia
• public servant (1923-1931) Victoria, Australia
• communist (1940-1955) Victoria, Australia
• autobiographer/memoirist (1956-1956) Victoria, Australia

• World War I (soldier)

• Royal Commission into the Hospital for the Insane, Kew (Vic, 1924) (witness)

• Angry Penguins (member)

• British Psychological Society (member)
• Melbourne Institute for Psychoanalysis (founding member, 1940)

• Communist (Victoria, 1940-1955)

• Dept of Health (Vic) (psychiatrist, 1918-1931)
• Hospital for the Insane (Kew, Melbourne) (psychiatrist, 1923-1924)
• Hospital for the Insane (Sunbury, Melbourne) (psychiatrist, 1925-1928)
• Royal Melbourne Hospital (psychiatrist, 1925-1928)
• Hospital for the Insane (Mont Park, Melbourne) (psychiatrist, 1928-1931)
• Alfred Hospital (Melbourne) (consultant psychiatrist, 1931-1946)