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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 demonstrates the inherently social cons...

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Autor principal: Smith, Kylie M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: Where are the nurses in the history of psychiatry?
  • Chapter 1. "The backbone of every mental hospital": defining nursing in early psychiatry
  • Chapter 2. "The gospel of mental hygiene": reimagining practice before WWII
  • Chapter 3. "The future of nursing": creating advanced practice courses in psychiatry
  • Chapter 4. "We called it talking with patients": interpersonal relations and the idea of nurses as therapists
  • Chapter 5. "The number one social problem": mental health and American democracy
  • Epilogue: From Alabama to DC and back again: the archives of Mary Starke Harper
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index.