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Talking Therapy traces the rise of modern psychiatric nursing in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Through an analysis of the relationship between nurses and other mental health professions, with an emphasis on nursing scholarship, this book highlights the role of nurses in challenging, and complying with, modern approaches to psychiatry.
List of contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 “The backbone of every mental hospital”: Defining nursing in early psychiatry
2 “The Gospel of Mental Hygiene”: Reimagining practice before WWII
3 “The Future of Nursing”: Creating Advanced Practice Courses in Psychiatry
4 “We called it talking with patients”: Interpersonal Relations and the Idea of Nurses as Therapists
5 “The number one social problem”: Mental Health and American Democracy
Conclusion
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the author
KYLIE SMITH is an assistant professor and the Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow for nursing and the humanities at Emory University in Atlanta. She is the co-editor
of Hegemony: Studies in Consensus and Coercion and
Nursing History for Contemporary Role Development.
