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CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV 1 Psychology for Nurses, by Mary F. Porter Project Gutenberg's Applied Psychology for Nurses, by Mary F. Porter This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Applied Psychology for Nurses Author: Mary F. Porter Release Date: July 16, 2006 [EBook #18843] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY FOR NURSES *** Produced by Alicia Williams, Laura Wisewell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: Italics have been rendered using underscores and bold using =equals signs=. A number of printer's errors have been corrected, and are listed at the end. * * * * * + + | | | Applied Psychology | | | | for Nurses | | | | | | By | | | | Mary F. Porter, A. B. | | | | Graduate Nurse; Teacher of Applied Psychology, | | Highland Hospital, Asheville, N. C. | | | | | | | | | | | | Philadelphia and London | | W. B. Saunders Company | | 1921 | | | | | + + Copyright, 1921, by W. B. Saunders Company PRINTED IN AMERICA PRESS OF W. B. SAUNDERS COMPANY PHILADELPHIA TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER FOREWORD This little book is the outgrowth of a conviction, strengthened by some years of experience with hundreds of supposedly normal young people in schools and colleges, confirmed by my years of training in a neurological hospital and months of work in a big city general hospital, that it is of little value to help some people back to physical health if they are to carry with them through a prolonged life the miseries of a sick attitude. As nurses I believe it is our privilege and our duty to work for health of body and health of mind as inseparable. Experience has proved that too often the physically ill patient (hitherto nervously well) returns from hospital care addicted to the illness-accepting attitude for which the nurse must be held responsible. I conceive of it as possible that every well trained nurse in our country shall consider it an essential to her professional success to leave her patient imbued with the will to health and better equipped to attain it because the sick attitude has been averted, or if already present, has been treated as really and intelligently as the sick Psychology for Nurses, by Mary F. Porter 2 body. To this end I have dealt with the simple principles of psychology only as the nurse can immediately apply them. The writer wishes to acknowledge her indebtedness for criticism of this work and for several definitions better than her own, in the chapters The Normal Mind and Variations From Normal Mental Processes, to Dr. Robert S. Carroll, who through the years of hospital training helped her to translate her collegiate psychology from fascinating abstract principles into the sustaining bread of daily life. MARY F. PORTER. ASHEVILLE, N. C., August, 1921. CONTENTS PAGE Psychology for Nurses, by Mary F. Porter 3 CHAPTER I WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY? 11 CHAPTER I 4 CHAPTER II CONSCIOUSNESS 20 The Unconscious 23 Consciousness is Complex 29 Consciousness in Sleep 31 Consciousness in Delirium 32 CHAPTER II 5 CHAPTER III ORGANS OF CONSCIOUSNESS 34 The Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems in Action 35 The Sympathetic Nervous System 37 CHAPTER III 6 CHAPTER IV RELATION OF MIND AND BODY 40 The Cerebrum or Forebrain 43 CHAPTER IV 7 CHAPTER V THE NORMAL MIND 47 CHAPTER V 8 CHAPTER VI THE NORMAL MIND (Continued) 59 Instinct 59 Memory 62 The Place of Emotion 67 The Beginning of Reason 69 Development of Reason and Will 71 Judgment 72 Reaction Proportioned to Stimuli 75 Normal Emotional Reactions 77 The Normal Mind 77 CHAPTER VI 9 CHAPTER VII PSYCHOLOGY AND HEALTH 79 Necessity of Adaptability 80 The Power of Suggestion 84 One Thought Can Be Replaced by Another 89 Habit is a Conserver of Effort 90 The Saving Power of Will 93 CHAPTER VII 10 [...]... XII THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE NURSE 139 Accuracy of Perception 141 Training Perception 142 Association of Ideas 143 Concentration 146 Self-training in Memory 150 15 CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIII THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE NURSE (Continued) 152 Emotional Equilibrium 152 Self-correction 160 Training the Will 161 16 CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XIV THE NURSE OF THE FUTURE 164 ***** INDEX 169 Applied Psychology for Nurses 17... the entire realms of feeling, knowing, willing not of man alone, but of all creatures In our study, however, we shall limit ourselves to the psychology of the human mind, since that concerns us vitally as nurses Animal psychology, race psychology, comparative psychology are not within the realm of our practical needs in hospital life We would know the workings of man's mind in disease and health What... the day I was born For it forgets absolutely nothing "That is not true," you say, "for I have tried desperately to remember certain incidents, certain lessons learned and they are gone Moreover, I cannot remember what happened back there in my babyhood." Ah, but you are mistaken, my friend For you react to your task today differently because of the thing which you learned and have "forgotten." Your mind... branching from the main trunks in the spinal cord, we shall not discuss, for you know them through your study of anatomy For the purpose of our psychology we need consider only two of the main divisions of the brain the cerebrum, which includes what we call the right and left hemispheres, and the cerebellum THE CEREBRUM OR FOREBRAIN For convenience the various lobes of the cerebrum are known as frontal,... ideas to form judgments CHAPTER V 33 Intellection, or thinking, might be explained as the mental process which converts sensation into percepts, groups percepts to form concepts or ideas, stores away ideas and sensations for future use, and recalls them when needed the recalling being memory and by reason combines, compares, and associates ideas to form judgments, then compares judgments to form new... unconscious continues its activity It is possible for the human body to live for years, utterly paralyzed, with many of the senses gone, with no consciousness of being if cared for by other persons a merely vegetable existence The current of power is broken; but the spark is still glowing, though utterly useless because connected with nothing And it may continue to glow for some time while properly stimulated... untended by others, for a limited time If the direct nerve connections between the brain and the hand, the brain and the foot, or the brain and the trunk are cut off, the mind henceforth realizes nothing of that part except as the sense of sight reports upon it; for the optic nerves relate the hand and mind, through this sense, as truly as the motor nerves which carry the mind's message for motion to the... thoughts on psychology I was trying to put on paper But how shall we classify these various contents? Some are emotion, i e., feelings; others are intellect, i e., thoughts; still others represent determination, i e., volition or will There is nothing in this varied consciousness that will not be included in one or another of these headings Let us group the contents for ourselves The nurses for whom I... eventually, he makes medicine itself less necessary But another science must walk hand in hand today with that of medicine; for doctors and nurses are realizing as never before the power of mind over body, and the hopelessness of trying to cure the one without considering the other Hence psychology has come into her own as a recognized science of the mind, just as biology, histology, chemistry, pathology,... a name For those few seconds this is all my world a pleasant drowsiness, a being possessed by comfort My consciousness is mere awareness a pleasant awareness of uncomplicated existence In another moment or two it is a consciousness of a day's work or pleasure ahead, the necessity of rising, dressing, planning the day, the alert reaction of pleasure or displeasure to what it is to bring, the effort to . XIII CHAPTER XIV 1 Psychology for Nurses, by Mary F. Porter Project Gutenberg's Applied Psychology for Nurses, by Mary F. Porter This eBook is for the use. * + + | | | Applied Psychology | | | | for Nurses | | | | | | By | | | | Mary F. Porter, A. B. | | | | Graduate Nurse; Teacher of Applied Psychology, |