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Participation of a Psychiatric Nurse

A. J. MANDELL, M.D.; L. FREITAS, R.N.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1961;4(6):597-602.

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There exists a wide range of opinion as to the place of the nurse in the management of psychiatric inpatients. Some writers¹ have expressed the opinion that the nurse should maintain a "professional distance" so as not to interfere with the doctor's psychotherapeutic management of the patient. A number of other articles have stressed acceptance but objective uninvolvement as the attitude of choice for psychiatric nurses² toward their patients. The following constitutes an example of another possibility for selected clinical cases in which the nurse plays a more important role in the management of psychiatric cases.

Previous Reports

From the beginning of the use of intensive psychotherapy for schizophrenia, nurses have been used as ancillary therapists. Federn,³ one of the pioneers of psychotherapy for psychotic patients, kept a "helper" with the patient in between sessions. Schwing,⁴ a nurse who . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
LOS ANGELES

Neuropsychiatric Institute, U.C.L.A. Medical Center, Los Angeles.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec., 1960.

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