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Applied Psychology for Nurses

INDEX

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M

N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

Protozoön, 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

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