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This book is exceptionally well documented. Each chapter has many references, and a very extensive bibliography is at the end of the book. These references have not included some very helpful ones in respect to
dynamics and relationships, but have covered the educational field thoroughly.
There are three parts, called “Status of Psychiatric Nursing,” “Nature of Psychiatric Nursing,” and “Direction of Psychiatric Nursing,” each containing several chapters not all as expected by the headings.
There is much useful statistical information in Part I and a fairly adequate discussion of the different disciplines concerned with behavior or emotional problems. The chapter “Mental Institutions” covers the development of these institutions in the United States very nicely. The evolving concepts of psychiatry and the accompanying ideas of education are included in a general way.
Part II which apparently is to justify the second part of the title of this book leaves much to be desired in discussing behavior. The material is written in very long involved sentences which are misleading, unclear and not always according to medical authorities. It seems the relation of psychodynamics to clinical manifestations is less secure ground than educational aspects for the author. One example is that dynamics of human behavior are not adequately or functionally described with the general heading of “overactive” or “underactive”. Emotions are given as fear, hate, jealousy and anguish which are incomplete as they are more often manifestations of the real emotions than primary emotions of themselves. Defensive and other mechanisms used to handle impulses are not mentioned in describing behavior or in managing it, therefore the use of this book as a nursing text is not advised. Good general suggestions are given but need to be specifically applied to facilitate understanding and correlation.
The third part of this book dealing with educational matters is helpful for organizing courses in psychiatri