Letters to the Editor

Briscoe O. V. (1968) The meaning of ‘mentally ill person’ in the Mental Health Act, 1958–1965 of NSW Australian Law Journal 42, 207–15

Doutney C. (1986) Mental health law reform: advance towards enlightenment or denial of reality? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 20, 266–75

Errington M. R. (1986) The operation of the Mental Health Act, 1983 (NSW) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 20, 278–92

Shea P. B. (1984) The statutory definition of a mentally ill person in NSW, 1958–1983 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 18, 218–23

Silove D. Doutney C. Pollock C. (1986) The contest between psychiatrists and lawyers over involuntary detention: the effects of recent changes in mental health legislation in New South Wales Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 20, 294–302

Supreme Court Proceedings cited: RAP v. AEP (1982), 2 NSWLR 509–10

GNM v. ER (1983) 1 NSWLR 144–9

GPG v ACF (1983) 1 NSWLR 54–61

Errinoton M. The Operation of the Mental Health Act 1983 (NSW) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 20, 1986 278–92

RAP v. AEP (1982) 2 NSWLR 508; CF v. TCML (1983) 1 NSWLR 138; GNM v. ER (1983) 1 NSWLR 144; GPG v. ACF (1983) 1 NSWLR 54; DW v. JNW (1983) 1 NSWLR 61

DW v. JNW (1963) 1 NSWLR 61

RAP v. AEP (1982) 2 NSWLR 508

Errington M. Mental Illness in Australian Legislation, paper presented at International Conference on Health, Law and Ethics, Sydney, 1986

Craze L. (1983) Unpublished research paper, submitted to Senior Social Worker, Rozelle Hospital

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION. Use and Abuse of Psychoactive Drugs: Report of a Seminar, Beijing. 15–20 August 1983, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1983

Edmondson K. Zhu Li-Qin The Rational Use of Psychotropic Substances: Seminars in the People's Republic of China, August 1985 Dr Ken Edmondson, Canberra, 1985

Drew L. R. H. Khan I. Cai ZHI-JI The Rational Use of Anxiolytics and Hypnotics in Medical Practice: Report of a Seminar in Jilin, August 1986 (in preparation)

Dubovsky S. L. Grabon S. Berl T. Schrier R. W. (1973) Syndrome of appropriate antidiuretic hormone with exacerbated psychosis Annals of internal Medicine 79, 551–4

Ferrier I. N. (1985) Water intoxication in patients with psychiatric illness British Medical Journal 291, 1594–6

Nielsen E. B. Lyon M. (1973) Drinking behaviour and brain dopamine Psychopharmacologia 33, 299–308

Peck U. Shenkman L. (1979) Haloperidol induced syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiurtic hormone Clinical Pharmacology Therapy 26, 442–4

Raskind M. A. Weitzman R. E. Orenstein H. (1978) Is antidiuretic hormone elevated in psychosis? A pilot study Biological Psychiatry 13, 385–90

Shen W. W. Sata L. S. (1983) Hypothalamic dopamine receptor supersensitivity? A pilot study of self induced water intoxication The Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa 8, 154–8

Yellowlees P. Thiamine deficiency and prevention of the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome Medical Journal of Australia 145, 216–19, 1986

Finlay-Jones R. Should thiamine be added to beer? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 20, 3–6, 1986