AUTHOR BIO

Dr. John Spencer is an English born and bred psychiatrist who qualified in Medicine at the University of Sheffield before moving to Paris and the American Hospital where he was senior resident. Dr Spencer has worked as a psychiatrist in Vancouver, The Bahamas and Australia where was Associate professor at the University of Western Australia. In 1980, he was involved in setting up of the Albany and district psychiatric service He then moved to New South Wales where he worked in rural areas, the Black Dog depression institute, and the Mental Health tribunal service.