Biographical entry Ellery, Reginald Spencer (1897 - 1955)

Summary

Reginald Ellery worked with the Victorian Department of Mental Hygiene 1923-1931 and was a psychiatric clinic assistant at the Royal Melbourne Hospital 1925-1931. From 1931 he was Psychiatrist to the Alfred and Women's Hospitals, Melbourne.

Archival resources

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

• Reginald Spencer Ellery - Records, 1910 - 1950, MS 7979; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• Gurciullo, Sebastian, 'Ellery, Reginald Spencer (1897-1955), Psychiatrist and Author' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 14 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. 89-90. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140102b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Kaplan, Robert M., 'The First Psychiatric Royal Commission: Reg Ellery and the Attendants at Kew Hospital', Health and History, 16 (1) (2014), 45-65. Details
• Kaplan, Robert M., 'A radical psychiatrist and the law: the forensic career of Reg Ellery', Australasian Psychiatry, 23 (2) (2015), 183-6. Details
• Kaplan, Robert M., 'Reg Ellery and the establishment of psychoanalysis in Australia', Health & History, 17 (1) (2015), 37-52. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7308872. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/8851435. Details
• 'Ellery, Reg S (18970812-19551227)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-579706. Details