Ainslie Meares

Ainslie Meares
Born (1910-03-03)3 March 1910
Malvern, Victoria, Australia
Died 19 September 1986(1986-09-19) (aged 76)
Melbourne, Australia
Occupation Psychiatrist, hypnotherapist, psychotherapist, advocate of meditation
Spouse(s) Bonnie, née Byrne (died 1979)
Children Russell, Garda, Sylvia
Parent(s) Albert and Eva Meares

Ainslie Dixon Meares (3 March 1910  19 September 1986) was an Australian psychiatrist, scholar of hypnotism, psychotherapist, authority on stress and a prolific author who lived and practised in Melbourne.[1]

Early life

Ainslie Meares was born in Malvern, Victoria, on 3 March 1910, the son of Albert and Eva Meares. Both of his parents died when he was 16.

Meares was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, where he boxed and played tennis, and at the University of Melbourne, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science degree in 1934 and a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree in 1940. He married Bonnie Byrne on 18 June 1934.

Meares received his Diploma in Psychiatric Medicine (London) in 1947 and, on the basis of his presentation of a collection of 17 published papers relating to medical hypnotism (with each paper being independent of the others), he was awarded the higher degree of Doctor of Medicine by the University of Melbourne in 1958.

Meares also served as a captain in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps (1941–1945).

Meares was a founding fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and, for a time, the president of the International Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.[2]

Hypnotism

Meares was an internationally recognised expert [3] in the medical uses of hypnotism and wrote a number of books describing his approach.

Death

Meares died suddenly, of pneumonia, in a Melbourne hospital on 19 September 1986. His wife, Bonnie, died in 1979. He was survived by their three children, Russell Meares (also a psychiatrist), Garda Meares Langley and Sylvia Meares Black.

Selected publications

Selected books

Other works

See also

References

  1. "Dr. Ainslie Meares, Cancer Victim's Guru". The Sydney Morning Herald. September 22, 1986.
  2. Bower, H. "Obituary: Ainslie Dixon Meares". Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 21, No. 2 (June, 1987): 251–2. doi:10.3109/00048678709160920.
  3. Westmore, A. (2012). Meares, Ainsley Dixon. Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 18.

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