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J Ellard

Publications and source records attributed to J Ellard.

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PubMed1989

The dangerousness of psychiatrists.

Since psychosis occasionally leads to behaviour requiring constraint, psychiatrists are involved in decisions which may lead to loss of liberty. In some places and at some times psychiatrists and their predecessors have made those decisions unrestrained. This essay considers how we have used that power in the past, indicates some of the abuses extant now, recognises that there is no satisfying solution to the problems which exist and argues for the consistency of the legal system with all its limitations rather than the uncertain and unrestrained judgment of individual psychiatrists.

Altruism↗
PubMed1988

A proof of the beneficial effects of psychotherapy, with an evaluation of two competing models.

The heuristic evaluation (HE) of differential strategies (DS) for the dissipation of dysfunctional cognitive and affective psychopathology (DODCAAP) has been addressed with ongoing evaluative modalities (OEM) for many years without an emergent consensus concerning their meaningful effective roles (MER). Their strategic perspectives (SP) have been addressed in this study, and the attention deployment (AD), reactive vigilance (RV), process withdrawal reactivity (PWR) and other ongoing responses to two strategic modalities of intervention are addressed with investigational techniques (IT).

Humans↗
PubMed1988

The history and present status of moral insanity.

Psychiatric taxonomies, always a little uncertain, are most confused and illogical when they endeavour to encompass the moral and legal aspects of human behaviour. The concept of moral insanity represented a step backwards when it came into being, but it has persisted for a century and a half, changing only its title. Its creation and its subsequent history exemplify some of the common errors in psychiatric theorising.

Australia↗
PubMed1987

Did schizophrenia exist before the eighteenth century?

Madness has resisted a satisfactory categorisation for 2,000 years or more. During the last century attempts to define and understand schizophrenia as an entity within that disorder have failed. This article explores some of the reasons why this may have happened, in particular considering whether the syndrome that we now call schizophrenia has changed in recent years and whether it existed at all four centuries ago. It is based on the author's experience and upon contemporary case histories.

History, 16th Century↗
PubMed1987

Drugs and prisons.

For as long as it has existed, our Australian society has been attempting to deal with addiction and criminal behaviour. Both crime and the taking of illicit drugs are reflections of the divisions, hatreds and wretchedness that have long existed within our society and within the individuals that comprise it. The prison, as a micro-society, brings the larger problems into an intense focus, with consequent difficulties for those who must administer it. This essay is concerned with those difficulties, their history and their management.

Australia↗
PubMed1985

The music of psychiatry.

The author argues that the practice of psychiatry is impeded by a central paradox. On the one hand, psychiatry cannot develop unless the methods of science are used to unravel its problems. On the other, a significant part of what has been advanced as science is of little value and has done no more than divert attention from the important non-scientific aspects of psychiatric practice. Empathetic and perceptive practice is central for good psychiatry; there is no reason to believe that scientific method alone--good or bad--will lead to its achievement.

Philosophy, Medical↗