Applied Psychology for Nurses. Mary F. Porter
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Mary F. Porter
Applied Psychology for Nurses
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664642202
Table of Contents
CHAPTER III ORGANS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
CHAPTER IV RELATION OF MIND AND BODY
CHAPTER VI THE NORMAL MIND (Continued)
CHAPTER VII PSYCHOLOGY AND HEALTH
CHAPTER VIII VARIATIONS FROM NORMAL MENTAL PROCESSES
CHAPTER IX VARIATIONS FROM NORMAL MENTAL PROCESSES (Continued)
FACTORS CAUSING VARIATIONS FROM NORMAL MENTAL PROCESSES
CHAPTER X ATTENTION THE ROOT OF DISEASE OR HEALTH ATTITUDE
CHAPTER XI GETTING THE PATIENT’S POINT OF VIEW
CHAPTER XII THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE NURSE
CHAPTER XIII THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE NURSE (Continued)
CHAPTER XIV THE NURSE OF THE FUTURE
A Short History of Nursing From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Some of the Putnam Nursing Books
FOREWORD
This little book is the outgrowth of a conviction, strengthened by some years of experience with hundreds of supposedly normal young people in schools and colleges, confirmed by my years of training in a neurological hospital and months of work in a big city general hospital, that it is of little value to help some people back to physical health if they are to carry with them through a prolonged life the miseries of a sick attitude. As nurses I believe it is our privilege and our duty to work for health of body and health of mind as inseparable. Experience has proved that too often the physically ill patient (hitherto nervously well) returns from hospital care addicted to the illness-accepting attitude for which the nurse must be held responsible.
I conceive of it as possible that every well trained nurse in our country shall consider it an essential to her professional success to leave her patient imbued with the will to health and better equipped to attain it because the sick attitude has been averted, or if already present, has been treated as really and intelligently as the sick body. To this end I have dealt with the simple principles of psychology only as the nurse can immediately apply them.
The writer wishes to acknowledge her indebtedness for criticism of this work and for several definitions better than her own, in the chapters The Normal Mind and Variations From Normal Mental Processes, to Dr. Robert S. Carroll, who through the years of hospital training helped her to translate her collegiate psychology from fascinating abstract principles into the sustaining bread of daily life.
Mary F. Porter.
Asheville, N. C.,
August, 1921.
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
Consciousness 20The Unconscious 23Consciousness is Complex 29Consciousness in Sleep 31Consciousness in Delirium 32
CHAPTER III
Organs of Consciousness 34The Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems in Action 35The Sympathetic Nervous System 37
CHAPTER IV
Relation of Mind and Body 40The Cerebrum or Forebrain 43
CHAPTER V