Talking Therapy - Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing

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.
 

Sommario

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
 

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

Traces the rise of psychiatric nursing in the US from the 1930s to the 1970s. Through an analysis of the relationship between nurses and other mental health professions, this book demonstrates the inherently social construction of “mental health”, and highlights the role of nurses in challenging, and complying with, modern approaches to psychiatry.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kylie Smith
• Editore: Rutgers University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781978801462
• ISBN: 978-1-978801-46-2
• Pagine: 192
• Serie: Critical Issues in Health and; Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series; Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; Psychologie, Geschichte der Medizin, MEDICAL / History, Medical / Nursing, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling