Talking Therapy : : Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing / / Kylie Smith.
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 constructi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (196 p.) :; 4 b&w images |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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 World War II
- Chapter 3. “The Nurse of Tomorrow”: 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
- Conclusion. “An Intolerance of Difference”
- Epilogue. From Alabama to DC and Back Again: The Archives of Mary Starke Harper
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Available titles in the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series