[2] After the First World War, Mary Hemingway worked as the resident medical officer at Bowden House, a nursing home for psychiatric patients run by Hugh Crichton-Miller.
[3] In addition to being a practicing psychiatrist, Hemingway Rees was an active member of the Medical Women's Federation, and was the chairman of its committee on psychological medicine.
[5] Hemingway Rees was a founder of the World Federation for Mental Health (of which her husband became the first president), and hosted WFMH events and participated in both the scientific and social programmes of meetings.
[6] She died shortly after returning from the WFMH Congress in Canada in 1954: the Federation acknowledged her contribution to the field by establishing the Mary Hemingway Rees Memorial Lecture.
[3] This lecture, delivered annually to the WFMH congress since 1958, addresses the theme of ‘spiritual values in mental health’, in accordance with her interests.