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Porter, Mary F.

"Applied Psychology for Nurses"


The nurse of the future will know the laws of mind as she knows the
course of disease; she will be dedicated to such wise care of existing
disease as will lead to prevention of future disease; and she will be a
sworn, trained ally of the health-accepting mind.


INDEX

Absent-mindedness, 64
Absolutes, 54
Abstract concept, 52
object concepts, 53
quality concepts, 53
Accuracy of perception, 141
Action cannot be separated from feeling, 68
Acts, compulsive, 106
Adaptability, 79
necessity of, 80
Amnesia, 103
Anesthesia, 101
Aphasia, 103
Apperception, 54
Association of ideas, 143
Attention, 79
of interest, 112
of reason and will, 118
root of disease or health attitude, 112
Autosuggestion, 84
Awareness, 15

Bad habits, 91
Beginning of reason, 69
Body and mind, relation of, 40
Borderland disorders, 107
Brain, 33
hind, 43

Censor, 31
Central and peripheral nervous systems in action, 35
Cerebellum, 43
Cerebrum, 43
functions of, 45
Clear thinking, steps to, 140
Compulsive acts, 106
ideas, 103
Concentration, 146
Concepts, 52
abstract, 52
object, 53
quality, 53
concrete, 52
Concrete concepts, 52
Consciousness, 15, 20, 21
definition, 15
flow of, 47
in delirium, 32
in sleep, 31
is complex, 29
organs of, 34
personal, 57

Delirium, consciousness in, 32
Deluded patient, 133
nursing of, 135
Delusion, 104
nihilistic, 104
of reference, 104
somatic, 104
Determination, 18
Development of reason and will, 71
Disease attitude, attention, root of, 112
Disorders, 95
borderland, 107
of emotion, 99
of functions of intellect, 96
of ideation, 97
of judgment, 99
of memory, 98
of perception, 96
of reason, 98
of sensation, 96
of will, 99
Disorientation, 103
Distractibility, 105

Effort, habit a conserver of, 90
Emotion, 18, 45, 49
disorders of, 99
the place of, 67
Emotional equilibrium, 152
reaction, normal, 77
Environment as cause of variation from normal mental processes, 109
Equilibrium, emotional, 152

False associations, mind a prey to, 137
Feeling, 49
cannot be separated from action, 68
from thinking, 67
from will, 68
Fixed idea, 103
Flight of ideas, 102
Forebrain, 43
Future, the nurse of the, 164

Getting other man's point of view, 126
patient's point of view, 124

Habit a conserver of effort, 90
bad, 91
hospital, 92
Habit-formation, 79
Hallucination, 101
Health and psychology, 79
attitude, attention, root of, 112
Heredity as course of variation from normal mental processes, 108
Hind brain, 43
Hospital habit, 92
How to study, 146
Hurt, 70
Hyperesthesia, 101
Hypersuggestability, 84
Hypochondriasis, 102, 108
Hysteria, 107

Idea, compulsive, 103
fixed, 103
Ideas, association of, 143
flight of, 102
Ideation, 52
disorders of, 97
Ideogenous pains, 103
Illusion, 101
Imagination, 58
Impulses, insane, 108
Inhibition, morbid, 104
Inorganic memory, 52
Insane impulses, 108
Insanity, 107
Instinct, 59
Instincts, list of, 61
Intellect, 18, 45
functions of, disorders of, 96
Interest, attention of, 112

Judgment, 56, 72
disorders of, 99

Life, mental, 14
conditions of, 19
phenomena of, 15

Mania, 107
Melancholia, 107
Memory, 51, 62
disorders of, 98
inorganic, 52
organic, 51
self-training in, 150
Mental disability, states of, 100
life, 14
conditions of, 19
phenomena of, 15
processes, normal, variations from, 95, 101
factors causing, 108
Mind, 14, 33
a prey to false associations, 137
and body, relation of, 40
functions of, 50
normal, 47, 77
Mood, 49
Morbid inhibition, 104
Motion, 26
Movement, 26
Mutism, 106

Necessity of adaptability, 80
Negativism, 106
Nervous systems, central and peripheral, in action, 35
sympathetic, 37
Nervousness, 106
Neurasthenia, 108
Neuropath, 108
Neurosis, 106
from psychosis, 82
Neurotic, 108
Nihilistic delusion, 104
Normal emotional reactions, 77
Normal mental processes, variations from, 95, 101
factors causing, 108
mind, 47, 77
Nurse of the future, 164
psychology of, 139
Nursing deluded patient, 135

Obsessed patient, 136
Obsession, 105
One thought replaced by another, 89
Organic memory, 51
Organs of consciousness, 34
Overactivity, psychomotor, 106

Pain, 69
ideogenous, 103
Patient, deluded, 133
nursing of, 135
obsessed, 136
Patient's point of view, getting, 124
what determines it, 124
Percept, 51, 52
Perception, 51
accuracy of, 141
disorders of, 96
training of, 142
Peripheral and central nervous systems in action, 35
Personal consciousness, 57
reactions as cause of variation from normal mental processes, 110
Personality, psychopathic, 108
shut-in, 104
Perversions, 95, 101
Phenomena of mental life, 15
Phobia, 108
Place of emotion, 67
Pleasure, 69
Point of view, getting other man's, 126
patient's, getting, 124
what determines it, 124
Poor memory, 64
Power of suggestion, 84
Premise, 72
Protozooen, consciousness in, 15
Psychasthenia, 108
Psychology and health, 79
definition, 12
of the nurse, 139
Psychomotor overactivity, 106
retardation, 106
Psychoneurosis, 106
Psychopathic personality, 108
Psychosis, 107
neurosis from, 82
Pugnacious instinct, 60

Reactions, normal emotional, 77
proportioned to stimuli, 75
Reason, 56
and will, attention of, 118
development of, 71
beginning of, 69
disorders of, 98
Reference, delusion of, 104
Relation of mind and body, 40
Retardation, psychomotor, 106

Saving power of will, 93
Science, 13
Second-nature, 90
Self-correction, 160
Self-training in memory, 150
Sensation, 51
disorders of, 96
Sense of unreality, 104
Shut-in personality, 104
Sleep, consciousness in, 31
Somatic delusion, 104
Steps to clear thinking, 140
Stimuli, reaction proportioned to, 75
Stimulus, definition, 22
Stream of thought, 50, 57
Study, how to, 146
Suggestibility, 79
Suggestion, power of, 84
Sympathetic nervous system, 37

The unconscious, 23
Thinking, 49, 58
cannot be separated from feeling, 67
clear, steps to, 140
Thought, stream of, 50, 57
Thought-substitution, 79
Tic, 105
Training perception, 142
the will, 161

Unconscious, the, 23
Universals, 53
Unreality, sense of, 104

Variations from normal mental processes, 95, 101
factors causing, 108
Volition, 45, 50

What determines patient's point of view, 124
we attend to determines what we are, 86
Will, 50, 79
and reason, attention of, 118
development of, 71
cannot be separated from feeling, 68
disorders of, 100
saving power of, 93
training of, 161


=A Short History=
=of Nursing=
From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
By
=Lavinia L.


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