Dean Yates
ISBN: 9781761264429
June 2023
Category: Medicine / Trauma & shock
Biography & True Stories / Memoirs
Biography & True Stories / General
Medicine / Mental health service
About Dean:
Dean Yates was head of mental health and wellbeing strategy at Reuters, the world’s largest news provider, for nearly three years until January 2020. Before that he was a journalist, bureau chief and senior editor at Reuters for more than 22 years. A diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder in early 2016 ended his news career. Dean was later told he had moral injury as well.
Dean was a top news editor for Reuters in Asia; bureau chief in Baghdad during which three of his staff were killed in 2007 and a deputy bureau chief in Jerusalem and Jakarta. He covered the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Indonesia’s Aceh province and the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings. He first covered an earthquake in Indonesia in 1994. He has been admitted three times to the Ward 17 psychiatric unit in Melbourne.
Dean is also an outspoken advocate on workplace mental health, press freedom, government accountability and transparency as well as other issues.
Dean Yates is a workplace mental health expert, public speaker, podcast host, and journalist. He is an outspoken advocate on mental health, press freedom and government accountability.
Dean worked for 26 years at Reuters, the international news agency. He was bureau chief in Iraq, responsible for 100 people, and later head of mental health strategy from 2017-2020.
Dean lives in Evandale in Tasmania with his life partner Mary Binks and their three adult children Patrick, Belle and Harry.
Review of Line in the Sand by husband
A gripping, well written, totally raw, no holds bard account of Dean’s journey through PTSD, his career at Reuters as a journalist in war zones to the support of his long suffering family and dealing with his trauma in ward 17.
This is an awakening for everyone in the mental health profession and those who suffer with mental health. Dean lays his journey bare, bringing you to tears, disbelief and finally understanding.
