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By Dominic Upton
Introducing Psychology for Nurses and Healthcare Professionalsis a refreshingly enticing, and available creation to psychology written in particular to help nurses and different scientific and wellbeing and fitness care execs, corresponding to Midwives and Care Assistants, in either their stories and in perform. Assumingno earlier wisdom, the textual content emphasizes the significance of realizing the mental concept and motion of sufferers to ensure that nursing and healthcare pros to supply applicable and passable sufferer care in perform. The seven chapters conceal psychology subject matters correct to nursing and health and wellbeing care together with some of the mental techniques and the way they are often utilized, psychology around the lifespan, the psychology of conversation, cognitive psychology, the root of mental suggestion and motion, and the psychology of pressure and soreness. as well as being a great introductory textual content for all pre-registration nursing classes, this ebook is additionally compatible for these in perform requiring a refresher or reference textual content.
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This is referred to as catharsis (although please note that specialist education is required to practise psychoanalysis properly). Displacement – often referred to as ‘kick the cat syndrome’ – involves the expression of an unconscious impulse, but against a substitute person, animal or object. If a displacement results in some socially acceptable or beneficial activity it is called sublimation. In recent years there have been several highly publicised cases in which carers have neglected or mistreated elderly patients.
Over a dozen defence mechanisms have been proposed by Freud and his followers. Among those commonly described are displacement, sublimation, projection, reaction formation, rationalisation and denial. The most basic and fundamental defence mechanism is called repression and implies the purposeful forgetting of anxiety-laden thoughts, memories or desires. Extreme reactions as well as high levels of anxiety can be indicative of repressed thoughts and feelings. In order to resolve these issues, the patient or client should be invited to talk about their anxieties and encouraged to discharge negative emotions, thoughts, memories and so on.
Freud’s theories are highly reductionist and deterministic. ● Too much emphasis on innate biological drives. B. Watson and monopolised psychology, particularly in the USA, until the early 1960s. Watson, who was influenced by the Nobel Prize-winning work of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936) on conditioned reflexes, became increasingly critical of the introspective approach which previously dominated psychology. He argued that introspective reports were unreliable and difficult to verify and he made a radical break from traditional introspective psychology.