Pharmacotherapy for incarcerated people with a history of violence: Response to commentary by Schofield et al.

Abstract

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 54(1) to ‘register for the draft’ and wait apprehensively to discover whether their ‘number’ was picked – a random selection of birthdates determined which young men would have to join the army (with the prospect of going to war). This was the time when Australians began to travel. We had not travelled. As a defence against our lack of worldly sophistication, we took pride in that lack – we took pride in being ‘Ocker’ – we demonstrated our ‘patriotism’ by demonstrably limiting our horizons. We had not been schooled for revolution. Professor Bastiampillai and his colleagues are to be saluted for suggesting the use of Durkheim’s beautiful concepts which can enable our understanding of ‘the sixties’ suicide spike (which featured a high level of female death).