The rise of mental health nursing : a history of psychiatric care in Dutch asylums, 1890-1920 /
A unique analysis of psychiatric care and the emerging field of mental health nursing in the Netherlands at the turn of the 19th century.
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2003]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Care of the mentally ill
- Asylum attendants and mental nurses
- The historiography of mental health nursing
- Four asylums as case studies
- The chapters in brief
- Chapter I. Asylum reform ideals: personnel matters. The appeal of institutional care and moral treatment
- A legal basis for asylum reform
- Increased medical influence
- Liberal views, reform rhetoric, and the problem of personnel
- Lower-class institutions
- The position of attendants and patients in the asylum hierarchy
- Different responses and different solutions: Roman Catholic initiatives
- Reform ideals frustrated: asylum growth and a new law
- A second law on the insane
- Awakening of Protestant duty
- Chapter II. The ideal of a mental hospital. New medical opinions: scientific psychiatry
- Medical views in Veldwijk: a Christian psychiatry.
- Bed rest
- Architectural changes and the increased application of bed rest
- Hydrotherapy and bath treatment
- Work remained
- The inspiring example of the general hospital: a new demand for skilled nursing
- Chapter III. Female compassion: mental nurse training gendered female. Religious roots
- Female compassion, domestic ideology and the women's movement
- Growing demand
- A new educational structure for nurses
- A respectable salaried occupation
- Female influence
- Hospital hierarchy
- Raising the status of psychiatry: the introduction of mental nurse training
- Gendered ideals: raising the morality of asylum personnel
- Het Wilhelminahuis (The Wilhelmina Home)
- Chapter IV. The burdensome task of nurses. The invisible role of nurses
- The nurse as object and agent of a disciplined asylum routine
- Threat, repression, and abuse: the division of wards as a control mechanism
- An analysis of patient records.
- Responding to dependency
- Growing old and demented
- Sick since youth
- Suffering from mania, acutely or periodically
- The care of paralyzed and handicapped syphilis patients
- They wished to be dead: the risk of suicide
- Overcome by delusions: the risk of refusing food, self-mutilation, violence and escape
- Nervous afflictions and brain trauma: rare cases in the turn-of-the-century asylum
- Chapter V. Negotiating class and culture. A gendered structure
- A new discipline and morale
- Culture shock
- The Orthodox Protestant Perception of mental nurse training: a family ideology
- Gendered nursing leadership in Veldwijk
- Implementing an educational structure
- Mental nurse training at Veldwijk
- Debate over the Boschhoek
- The Boschhoek revisited
- Roman Catholic "Resistance"
- Chapter VI. The marginalization of male nurses. Nursing, a respected occupation
- but not for men
- Squeezed out
- Nurse artisans.
- The home of a married nurse: a place of family care?
- Growing class consciousness
- Male nurse activism and the career of P.N. Bras
- Gendered politics versus expertise
- Chapter VII. Controversy and conflict over the social position. An ambiguous social position
- Growing social awareness among asylum nursing personnel
- Activism among the VCV nurses
- Seeking legal protection from the state
- Controversy over training
- Ambivalence over morality and class background
- The threat of private duty
- Tension over the NVP exam criteria
- Controversy over the somatic approach and biomedical footing of psychiatric care
- Conclusion: the politics of mental health nursing
- The disappointment of somatic explanations in turn-of-the-century psychiatry
- A gendered notion of civilized care
- The Educational versus the social value of mental nurse training
- Economic problems, growing costs
- Ideals and limitations.