Psychiatric nursing at the crossroads: quo vadis.
Psychiatric nursing at the crossroads: quo vadis.
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处于十字路口的精神科护理: quo vadis 。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1744-6163.1981.tb00122.x
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发表时间:
1981
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
C. Fagin
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作者:
C. Fagin
American medicine’s love affair with psychoanalysis was perfectly in keeping with what has been described as our futuristic and optimistic approach to the belief in the betterment of man. Psychiatrists had convinced themselves and others that the panacea that was psychoanalysis could change the world. It could change the way children were raised and eliminate adult mental illness. It could cure mental illness when that occurred. It could consult with politicians to help them build a better world. It could solve problems of crime and delinquency and, indeed, cure many physical illnesses. Both the psychoanalytic and community mental health revolutions were for a time warmly embraced by psychiatrists, and their influence in the medical field appeared to have extremely high potential. Relying heavily on the psychotherapeutic relationship and minimally on skills more associated with their medical training, psychiatrists had a hard time defining their unique qualifications in contrast to other mental health professionals. By the 60s, pharmacological developments and administrative power changes took much of the luster away from psychoanalytic and community mental health medical people.(Shepherd, 197 1: 302-320) There has been a great deal of recent attention to the decline in the percentage ofAmerican medical graduates choosing psychiatric careers. Much concern has also been expressed about the diminishing presence of psychiatrists in community mental health with notable absence in leadership positions.While article after article in the medical literature decries the diminishing supply of psychiatrists and their decreasing power in the medical field, it should be noted that there is great similarity on this health manpower issue between the report of the President’s Commission on Mental Health in 1978 and the report of the Joint Commission on Mental Health in 1958.(Albee, 1979: 783-786)