Applied Psychology

About this eBook

Author

Porter, Mary F.

Title

Applied Psychology for Nurses

Credits

Produced by Alicia Williams, Laura Wisewell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

RT: Medicine: Nursing

Subject

Nurses

Category

Text

eBook-No.

18843

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18843

Release Date

July 16, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Applied Psychology for Nurses — By Mary F. Porter, A. B. Graduate Nurse; Teacher of Applied Psychology, Highland Hospital, Asheville, N. C.
2. 2.FOREWORD
3. 3.CONTENTS — Applied Psychology for Nurses
4. 4.CHAPTER I WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY?
5. 5.CHAPTER II CONSCIOUSNESS — The Unconscious — Consciousness is Complex — Consciousness in Sleep — Consciousness in Delirium
6. 6.CHAPTER III ORGANS OF CONSCIOUSNESS — The Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems in Action — The Sympathetic Nervous System
7. 7.CHAPTER IV RELATION OF MIND AND BODY — The Cerebrum or Forebrain
8. 8.CHAPTER V THE NORMAL MIND
9. 9.CHAPTER VI THE NORMAL MIND (Continued) — Instinct — Memory — The Place of Emotion — The Beginning of Reason — Development of Reason and Will — Judgment — Reaction Proportioned to Stimuli — Normal Emotional Reactions — The Normal Mind
10. 10.CHAPTER VII PSYCHOLOGY AND HEALTH — Necessity of Adaptability — The Power of Suggestion — One Thought Can Be Replaced by Another — Habit is a Conserver of Effort — The Saving Power of Will
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII VARIATIONS FROM NORMAL MENTAL PROCESSES — Disorders and Perversions
12. 12.CHAPTER IX VARIATIONS FROM NORMAL MENTAL PROCESSES (Continued) — FACTORS CAUSING VARIATIONS FROM NORMAL MENTAL PROCESSES — Heredity — Environment — Personal Reactions
13. 13.CHAPTER X ATTENTION THE ROOT OF DISEASE OR HEALTH ATTITUDE — The Attention of Interest — The Attention of Reason and Will
14. 14.CHAPTER XI GETTING THE PATIENT’S POINT OF VIEW — What Determines the Point of View — Getting the Other Man’s Point of View — The Deluded Patient — Nursing the Deluded Patient — The Obsessed Patient — The Mind a Prey to False Associations
15. 15.CHAPTER XII THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE NURSE — Accuracy of Perception — Training Perception — Association of Ideas — Concentration — Self-training in Memory
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE NURSE (Continued) — Emotional Equilibrium — Self-correction — Training the Will
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV THE NURSE OF THE FUTURE — The Nurse of the Future
18. 18.INDEX
19. 19.A Short History of Nursing From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
20. 20.Some of the Putnam Nursing Books

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