A forgotten pioneer in Australian psychiatry: Dr Edward Waldegrave Wardley (1813-1872)

Author:Luke, Sarah

Article Title:A forgotten pioneer in Australian psychiatry: Dr Edward Waldegrave Wardley (1813-1872)

Abstract:
British-born Dr Edward Waldegrave Wardley (MRCSL, 1842) is an unacknowledged pioneer in the history of mental health care in Australia. Between 1857 and 1872, he assisted in the development of a policy of non-restraint across lunatic asylums in New South Wales (NSW). He then went on to extend this approach to the treatment of NSW's criminally insane patients. In addition, he trialled experiments to intellectually engage educated psychiatric patients across the colony. A prolific writer, and sufferer of chronic depression, Dr Wardley serves as a unique example of a nineteenth-century alienist with lived experience of mental illness.

Keywords:  Colonial psychiatry; mental illness; biography; history of psychiatry; lived experience

DOI: 10.1177/09677720241266307

Source:JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOGRAPHY

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