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The second edition of Miss Ingram's book follows the same scheme as the first and will serve the same group, namely, students affiliating in psychiatry. Head nurses and others in the clinical situation will find this text useful and particularly in evaluating the patient's reactions to the nurse and in ascertaining ways of obtaining the desired relationships. Students and teachers whose approach is concerned with general deviations in behavior rather than that which is more characteristic of specific syndromes will derive practical aid and ideas from the material in this text.
The new subject matter which is mainly relative to the shock therapies dwells more on the equipment used by the physician and the method itself than on the patient's psychiatric nursing needs. New topics and arrangements are student reports on practical aspects of psychiatric nursing, psychological aspects of hydrotherapy, and teaching as nursing. The sections on specific therapies and reaction types have been expanded. The section on mental hygiene now includes a discussion of child guidance which is interesting and contains facts essential to a nurse's education.
This text succeeds better than any other in the field so far in translating into language the subtle, though difficult and important nursing, performed