Kylie Smith

Talking Therapy

Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781978801455
• ISBN-10: 1978801459
• Artikelnr.: 58033447

Autorenporträt

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.  

Inhaltsangabe

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