Talking Therapy

Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing

Kylie Smith (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2020
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0146-2 (ISBN)

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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.

First place in the 2020 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award in History and Public Policy

Winner of the 2020 Lavinia L. Dock Award from the American Association for the History of 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 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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	22.07.2020
Zusatzinfo	4 b&w images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Pflege ► Fachpflege ► Neurologie / Psychiatrie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Rehabilitation
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-9788-0146-7 / 1978801467
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-0146-2 / 9781978801462
Zustand	Neuware