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CONTENTS APPENDIX 1. Obituary of Dr. Neville Thomas Yeomans Psychiatrist 1928 - 2000 APPENDIX 4 The Roles of Fraser House Nurses – A Paper by Patients (Yeomans 1965, Vol. 4, 17-20) APPENDIX 5 - Fraser House Big Groups – A Paper by Patients (Yeomans 1965, Vol. 4, 50-54) APPENDIX 6 - The Roles of the Fraser House Patient/Outpatient Committees APPENDIX 7 - A list of the Questions That Were Asked in Neville’s Values Research. APPENDIX 12. A Comparison of Goffman’s ‘Total Institutions and Fraser House. 505 APPENDIX 14. A List of Advisory Bodies and Positions Held by Neville APPENDIX 15. Participants in the Watson’s Bay Festival (Yeomans 1965, Vol. 12, p. 3) APPENDIX 16. The Range of Events and Activities Teed up as Part of the Centennial Park Festival. APPENDIX 17. Terms Listed in the Natural Business Concepts Lexicon APPENDIX 18. Globalocal Realplay - Healing Nightmares APPENDIX 20. Governments and the Facilitating of Grassroots Wellbeing Action APPENDIX 21. Nexus Groups’ Constitution APPENDIX 22. Excerpts From an Aboriginal Woman’s Diary APPENDIX 23. A List of Some of the Activities Used in Cultural Healing Action APPENDIX 24. A Summary of Ken Yeomans’ 1992 Petford Keyline Survey APPENDIX 25. Some of Neville’s Actions Leading to the UN Funded Gathering APPENDIX 26. One Fortnight’s Laceweb Action in the Atherton Tablelands APPENDIX 27. The Rapid Creek Project APPENDIX 28. Extegrity - Guidelines for Joint Partner Proposal Application APPENDIX 29. Inter-people Healing Treaty Between Non-Government Organizations and Unique Peoples APPENDIX 30. The Young Persons Healing Learning Code APPENDIX 32. A list of Laceweb Aspects as a ‘New Social Movement’ APPENDIX 33. Possible Ways Laceweb Differs From Latin American New Social Movements APPENDIX 34. Cape York Communities Aboriginal Youth Living Well Project 563 APPENDIX 1. Obituary of Dr. Neville Thomas Yeomans Psychiatrist 1928 - 2000 Neville Yeoman's affection for and
empathy with the original inhabitants of Australia began very early in his
life when, at the age of 3, he was saved by an Aborigine after he had
wandered off and become lost in the bush in far north Queensland. This rescue
from certain death, laid the foundations for his later work with indigenous
communities as a carer, with an intense interest in the peoples and their
cultures. He was a co-healer rather than a prescriber and believed in
approaching the problems of mental health, alcoholism and drug addiction from
a community perspective. He devoted much of his life to providing counselling
and treatment to those most underprivileged and handicapped especially women,
alcoholics and drug addicts. After 1975, he extended these activities to
northern Australia, from the Atherton Tablelands to the Kimberleys, from
Arnhem Land to Central Australia. In a sense it was a repetition of his
childhood years when his family travelled like "gypsies" throughout
the northern parts of Australia with his prospecting father. Neville Yeomans was born in Sydney on 7
October 1928 to Percival Alfred ("P.A.") and Rita Yeomans. It was
the depression and life was hard. His
father, "P.A." Yeomans, a mining engineer (who later became famous
for his contributions to agriculture including Keyline Farming, City Forest,
Shakaerator plough and other agricultural developments) took the family
around northern Australia trying their luck at prospecting. These were
important years for Neville Yeomans when many aspects of his character were
molded. The vagabond existence of the family
meant that they were never in the one place for long. Experiences such as
attending 13 schools in one 12 month period, taught him that friendships were
ephemeral and superficial. He completed his schooling at Scotts College
in Sydney and then went to Sydney University from where he graduated as a
Bachelor of Science (Biology) in 1948. He wanted to work with and heal people
and he went on to obtain his Bachelor's degree in Medicine and Surgery in
1956. But it was people's minds that fascinated him most and he completed a
Diploma in Psychological Medicine in 1959. In the same year he won an
overseas scholarship that enabled him to meet with some of the World's
leading psychiatrists. Neville Yeomans was a brilliant and sensitive man who
understood things in their context, and he had an ability to see things from
different perspectives to those commonly held. He was appalled by the methods used at
the time to treat psychiatric disease (especially shock treatment which he regarded
as a crime) and on his return from overseas he established and became the
Director of Fraser House at North Ryde Psychiatric Clinic, Australia's first
family Therapeutic Community with accommodation for some 86 adults and
children. It was a revolutionary contextual approach that treated psychiatric
disease on a family and community basis instead of treatment of just the
individual. Patients were able to be rehabilitated and return to society
rather than being locked away out of sight and restrained with drugs and
straight-jackets. Many of his peers did not understand this radical approach
to treatment and Neville was frequently vilified for being out of step with
the main stream of things. It is interesting to note that 40 years later, his
approach to psychiatric treatment has become the norm rather than the
exception. During the period from 1959 to 1972, he
ran "healing community" courses for Aboriginal and Islander peoples
in Sydney, in country New South Wales and at Alice Springs in Central Australia. He was the Co-ordinator of Community
Mental Health for New South Wales
Health Department from 1965 to 1970. He published many papers on psychiatric
treatment (which are now held in the Mitchell Library in Sydney) and with a
colleague, wrote a book "Fraser House: Theory Practice and Evaluation of
a Therapeutic Community."
published by Springer, New York (1969). As his interest in community work
developed, he completed a Diploma in Sociology at the University of New South
Wales in 1963, to better understand the social aspects of human responses. He
also broadened his interests to studying other cultures and their values and,
among other things, joined the Australia Eurasian Association in the late
1960's, and followed his passion for multiculturalism. He regarded Australia
as a "cooking pot" rather than a "melting pot" of
cultures, cooking up a new and better culture for the future! It was on a
platform of multiculturalism that he stood for the seat of Philip (Liberal,
Sydney) in the 1972 elections and gained sufficient votes not to lose his
deposit, but failed to gain the seat. Not content with his already numerous
qualifications he went on to complete a Bachelor of Law degree from the
University of New South Wales in 1975 and was admitted to the Bar. In spite
of this, he was more interested in mediation than litigation and closely
studied the mediation systems used in China. He studied Japanese and Chinese
languages and travelled overseas to Asia, Europe and the Americas on several
occasions over the years. He was an avid supporter of Bliss Symbolics, an
international sign language based on symbols. Neville Yeomans was drawn more and more
to the area he grew up in and in 1975 he moved back to north Queensland where
he became engrossed in working with Aboriginal people. He conducted a private
psychiatric counselling and family therapy practice, facilitated community
support for Aboriginal and Ethnic groups, established "Healing
Haven" houses in North Queensland and assisted in the creation of a
black women's shelter in Cairns. In the early 1980's he became interested
in and a keen qualified practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
which was a revolutionary way of treating emotional states and of helping
people overcome psychiatric illness and addictions. He and a friend, Terry
Widders, set up NLP Centres in Cairns, Townsville in Queensland and Bondi
Junction in Sydney. Neville Yeomans continued to pay the price of being a
pioneer of new ideas and was regarded as a pariah by many of his professional
colleagues in the establishment, with many refusing to refer patients to him.
In 1987 he was a consultant to Petford
Aboriginal Training Farm in far North Queensland and from 1989 to 1994 he
facilitated camp-outs/Intercultural Healing Training festivals in the
Atherton Tablelands and at the Petford Aboriginal Training Farm. In 1990 he
was an Adviser to the Australian South Sea Islander United Council. He was on
the Steering Committee for Training on Torture and Trauma in 1994 and
conducted a three day training course in Darwin. His working career came to
an end in 1997 in Darwin where he was discovered sick with bladder cancer by
his youngest son, and brought back to Sydney for treatment. Neville Yeomans was a very intelligent,
passionate and insightful person with a deep sense of purpose and an ability
to focus absolutely on the job in hand, a characteristic that often made it
difficult for those closest to him. He was also an introspective, artistic
and aesthetic person who loved music (he played the clarinet) and art and he
wrote poetry on a regular basis from the mid 1960's. Many of the poems
demonstrate his sharp wit and sense of fun. The hundreds of poems he wrote,
which give glimpses of the man within, will be published shortly. His passion
was to treat people in need, his skill was his ability to engage with people
and to make suggestions for change. His dying wish was to leave a legacy of
clinics for Aboriginal people to enable them to help themselves. Neville
Yeomans died in Brisbane on 30 May 2000 following a painful struggle with
cancer. He spent his final days at home, surrounded by members of his family
and friends. He is survived by his two brothers, two half-sisters, five
children from two dissolved marriages, and eight grandchildren. Peter N. Carroll Leura, N.S.W. APPENDIX 2. List of the Early Actions and the Isomorphic Social Action Neville Had me Experience as Action Researcher
APPENDIX 3. Diagnosis of Fraser House Population as at 30th June 1962 (Clark, A. & Yeomans, N., 1969 Page 56) Male
Female Total 1 Disorders Caused by or Associated with Impairment of Brain
Tissue 1. Acute and Chronic brain disorders 0 0 0 2. Mental deficiency, mild with epilepsy 1 0 1 2
Disorders of psychogenic
Origin 3
Psychotic Disorders Affective
Reactions: Manic Depressive reaction depressive type 1 1 2 Schizophrenic Reactions: Schizophrenic reaction, simple type 3 8 11 Schizophrenic reaction, hebephrenic type 0 3 3 Schizophrenic reaction, catatonic type 2 2 4 Schizophrenic reaction, paranoid type 3 6 9 Schizophrenic reaction, acute undifferentiated type 1 2 3 Schizophrenic reaction, schizo-affective type 2 0 2 TOTAL 12 22 34 2 Psychoneurotic Disorders Psychoneurotic Reactions Anxiety reaction 0 1 1 Conversion reaction 0 1 1 Obsessive - compulsive reaction 1 1 2 Depressive reaction 2 2 4 TOTAL 3 5 8 3 Personality disorders Personality Pattern Disturbances: Inadequate personality 0 1 1 Schizoid personality 1 0 1 Sociopathic Personality Disturbances Anti-social reaction 3 2 5 Dyssocial reaction 1 2 3 Sexual deviations: homosexuality 4 0 4 pedophilia 2 0 2 prostitution and beastiality 0 1 1 Personality
Trait Disturbances Compulsive personality 1 0 1 Addiction: alcohol 4 2 6 |