Anne Barbara Deveson AO (19 June 1930 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian writer, broadcaster and filmmaker who also worked in England.

[2] In 1956, Deveson moved back to Australia and began working for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Sydney.

[3] Deveson wrote about her experiences with her son's illness and death in Tell Me I'm Here, which won the 1991 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission for non-fiction writing,[1][7][8] and then translated her work into the documentary film Spinning Out.

His pioneering work with Anne Deveson to bring the experience of Schizophrenia to the mainstream arena of mental health services dates from this collaboration and his meeting with Anne Deveson at a public event in which he stood up out of the audience to give voice to the experience of Schizophrenia.

Her book Resilience was written after the sudden death of her partner, the English economist Robert Theobald, in 1999 and draws on her emotions and feelings.