Selected essays. vol. 1, Containing anxiety in institutions / Isabel Menzies Lyth.
By: Lyth, Isabel Menzies.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Free Association Books, 1988Description: xi, 269 p. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1853430013.Subject(s): Nursing -- Psychological aspects | Hospitals -- Psychological aspects | Anxiety | Hospital patients -- Psychology | Nurses -- Job stressDDC classification: 610.73019Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 610.73019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00085645 | ||
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Isabel Menzies Lyth has formulated a way of thinking about social structures as forms of defence. The author extends her analytic range to cover themes of children in long-stay hospitals and day-care institutions, and the maternal role today.
Bibliography: p. 259-264. - Includes index.
Reflections on my work; Isabel Menzies Lyth in conversation with Ann Scott and Robert M. Young -- The functioning of social systems as a defence against anxiety (1959, 1961 [1961b], 1970) -- Nurses under stress (1961 [1961a]) -- Some methodological notes on a hospital study (1969) -- Action research in a long-stay hospital -- Thoughts on the maternal role in contemporary society (1975) -- Staff support systems: task and anti-task in adolescent institutions (1979) -- The development of the self in children in institutions (1985).