Talking Therapy
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Talking Therapy

Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing

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Talking Therapy

Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing

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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 demonstrates the inherently social construction of 'mental health', and highlights the role of nurses in challenging, and complying with, modern approaches to psychiatry. After WWII, heightened cultural and political emphasis on mental health for social stability enabled the development of psychiatric nursing as a distinct knowledge project through which nurses aimed to transform institutional approaches to patient care, and to contribute to health and social science beyond the bedside. Nurses now take for granted the ideas that underpin their relationships with patients, but this book demonstrates that these were ideas not easily won, and that nurses in the past fought hard to make mental health nursing what it is today.

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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781978801479
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction: Where Are the Nurses in the History of Psychiatry?
  8. Chapter 1: “The Backbone of Every Mental Hospital”: Defining Nursing in Early Psychiatry
  9. Chapter 2: “The Gospel of Mental Hygiene”: Reimagining Practice before World War II
  10. Chapter 3: “The Nurse of Tomorrow”: Creating Advanced Practice Courses in Psychiatry
  11. Chapter 4: “We Called It ‘Talking with Patients’ ”: Interpersonal Relations and the Idea of Nurses as Therapists
  12. Chapter 5: “The Number One Social Problem”: Mental Health and American Democracy
  13. Conclusion: “An Intolerance of Difference”
  14. Epilogue: From Alabama to DC and Back Again: The Archives of Mary Starke Harper
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes
  17. Index
  18. About the Author
  19. Series List