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Since the appearance of the first edition of this manual in 1928, it has become through successive enlarged issues a comprehensive neuro-psychatric text from the standpoint of exacting and clinically important nursing procedures. Through extensive use it has served an excellent purpose in implementing nursing education and training with the advancing concepts of clinical neurology and psychiatry. One of the chief virtues of the approach offered, rare in works of admitted limited scope, is the representation of the conception of disease indicating the bearing of psychogenic factors in aberrant somatic manifestations, thus making possible a better perception and understanding of the deeper processes involved in the disorders dealt with.
In the present fourth edition the author has added a completely rewritten section on multiple neuritis, as well as further matter in the accounts relating to medical psychology, psychoanalysis, and nursing requisites attendant upon new therapeutic procedures in neuropsychiatry. Other enlargements deal with encephalitis and the significance of psychological considerations in the rehabilitation of the individual.
The thirteen chapters include separate sections on the factors of elementary medical psychology, neuro-anatomy, the endocrines; thereafter giving under specific headings the essential features, symptoms and signs of each clinical entity, supplementing the descriptions in each case with detailed instructions for nursing care. Other chapter titles include The Common Neurological Disorders; The Nature, Causes, Symptoms, and Classification of Mental Disorders; The Common Psychogenic Psychoses; Borderline Mental Diseases; The Development of Modern Psychiatry; Mental Hygiene; and Psychoanalysis and Psychobiology. This new edition would incorporate for the needs of the student and graduate nurse such new data as relate to those developments in neurology and psychiatry put forward since the last edition: these are specified as the use of