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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 in 1934 and a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery 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.
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