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Mental Disorder: An Introductory Textbook for Nurses book cover

1st Edition

Mental Disorder An Introductory Textbook for Nurses

By H. Snell Copyright 1977
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1977, this book was written in response to demands for a textbook of psychiatry which was neither too theoretical, nor so simple that it was inaccurate. It was addressed primarily to pupil nurses in hospitals for the mentally ill, and to student nurses in their first months of training. Its style and content ensured that it could be read with profit by all others whose... Read more

Preface.  1. Past and Present Care of the Mentally Ill  2. Human Development  3. Mental Mechanisms and the Unconscious Mind  4. The Concept of Mental Illness  5. The Causes of Mental Illness  6. The Neuroses  7. Functional Psychoses  8. Organic Psychoses  9. Psychopathic Disorder  10. Drug Dependence  11. Epilepsy  12. Mental Subnormality  13. Fringe Problems  14. Aggressive and Suicidal Behaviour  15. Institutionalism  16. The Treatment of Mental Illness  17. Rehabilitation.  Index.

Biography

H. Snell was born in London and began teaching after seven years’ experience of nursing the mentally ill. At the time of publication, he was teaching pupil and student psychiatric nurses at Goodmayes Hospital, Essex. He was a member of the Panel of Examiners (Psychiatric) and a member of the Panel of Assessors (Psychiatric) of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales.

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