CHAPTER XI

GETTING THE PATIENT'S POINT OF VIEW 124
What Determines the Point of View 124
Getting the Other Man's Point of View 126
The Deluded Patient 133
Nursing the Deluded Patient 135
The Obsessed Patient 136
The Mind a Prey to False Associations 137

CHAPTER 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

CHAPTER XIII

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE NURSE (Continued) 152
Emotional Equilibrium 152
Self-correction 160
Training the Will 161

CHAPTER XIV

THE NURSE OF THE FUTURE 164

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INDEX 169

Applied Psychology for Nurses

CHAPTER I

WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY?

Wise men study the sciences which deal with the origins and development
of animal life, with the structure of the cells, with the effect of
various diseases upon the tissues and fluids of the body; they study the
causes of the reactions of the body cells to disease germs, and search
for the origin and means of extermination of these enemies to health.
They study the laws of physical well-being. They seek for the chemical
principles governing the reactions of digestive fluids to the foods they
must transform into heat and energy. So the doctor learns to combat
disease with science, and at the same time to apply scientific laws of
health that he may fortify the human body against the invasion of
harmful germs. Thus, 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