Harry Bailey

Harry Richard Bailey (29 October 1922, Picton, New South Wales – 8 September 1985, Mount White, New South Wales) was a controversial Australian psychiatrist and hospital administrator. He bore the primary responsibility for treatment of mental patients and drug dependent clients via deep sleep therapy, and other methods, at a mental hospital on the Sydney North Shore suburb of Pennant Hills, in which he was principal of. He has been linked with the deaths of a total of 85 patients, including 19 that committed suicide He committed suicide while being investigated. One of Bailey's best known clients was Australian rock and pop singer and songwriter Stevie Wright, who was being treated for methadone addiction, a report that was later part of a 2013 documentary on Australian Story

Harry Richard Bailey was born on 29 October 1922 in the small town of Picton, in the New South Wales Macarthur Region to Jack Nelson Bailey, a stationmaster and railway officer and Ruth Kathleen Bailey née Smith, and attended Christian Brothers at Waverley before enrolling in science at University of Sydney, he did not complete his studies and took a position as a pharmacist's assistant and whereas most of his compatriots who specialized in psychiatry sought out their advanced further training in Britain, Bailey worked in Louisiana with Robert Heath of Tulane University. He also studied electroconvulsive therapy and surgical and pharmacological care under Sir William Trethowan and Cedric Howell Swanton back in Australia.

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