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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2013-05-01 human Tom Hyde updated 2025-08-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005363b.htm person Bailey Harry Richard AACR2 29 October 1922 8 September 1985 Place of Birth Picton, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Mount White, New South Wales, Australia Psychiatrist Harry Bailey was enrolled in science at the University of Sydney in 1940. While he did not finish this degree, he became employed as a pharmacist's assistant. He later studied medicine at the University of Sydney and won the Norton Manning memorial prize for psychiatry and the Major Ian Vikery prize for paediatrics. Bailey became a medical officer at Boughton Hall Psychiatric Centre in 1952. He also became assistant-director of psychiatric clinical services in the Department of Public Health and was instrumental in the reassessment of governmental mental health policy. Bailey ran a practice at Chelmsford Private Hospital, Pennant Hill experimenting with deep sleep therapy and ECT from 1951 until its closure in 1979. His professional reputation was questioned with a coronial inquiry in 1967 after the deaths of several of his patients. Another inquest was held in 1983 over the death of patient Miriam Podio in 1977. He was charged with manslaughter in 1983 which was dismissed in 1985. Shortly after he committed suicide. A royal commission was established in 1988 to investigate the deep sleep treatment pioneered by Bailey which found evidence of malpractice and led to the banning of the treatment by the New South Wales government.

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 'Bailey, Harry Richard', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Bailey, Harry Richard Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Bailey, Harry Richard (1922-1985), psychiatrist Garton, Stephen Bailey, Harry Richard (1922-1985), psychiatrist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2007 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 17: 1981 - 1990 A-K Diane Langmore 48-49