Talking Therapy - Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing (Hardcover)

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.  

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Release date:	May 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Kylie Smith
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-978801-46-2
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Rehabilitation Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Nursing > General Books > Academic & Education > Varsity Textbooks > Nursing
LSN:	1-978801-46-7
Barcode:	9781978801462

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