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Psychiatric Nursing

‘Mental Health Nursing’

This podcast offers a deeper understanding of the development of mental health nursing:

https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/psychhist/index.php/2017/01/24/mental-health-nursing/

Handbook for the Instruction of Attendants on the Insane 1885 (often referred to as the “Red Handbook”)

This publication was the first of its kind as mental health nurses were hitherto not required to possess knowledge about how to care for patients with mental illnesses:

https://archive.org/details/handbookforinst01assogoog/mode/2up

Dorothea Dix: When will we see your like again in Scotland?

Article from Cambridge University Psychiatric Bulletin by A. D. T. Robinson in 1986. This article provides some information on the conditions of Scotland’s asylums as witnessed by Dorothea Dix (1802-1887), an American pioneering nurse and social reformer for the improvement for the care of the mentally ill:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/98274B9D9BC6F5D7EB989D4FBD252865/S0955603600013519a.pdf/dorothea_dix_when_will_we_see_your_like_again_in_scotland.pdf