Hildegard Peplau: Psychiatric Nurse of the Century

Callaway, Barbara; Bullough, Vern L.

doi:10.1891/1062-8061.12.1.253

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“…She was persuaded to do so by Ella V. Stonsby, fi rst Dean of Rutgers' nursing (Callaway, 2002). Peplau saw great opportunity to demonstrate and teach interviewing and group techniques in New Jersey because there was no medical school, and the state psychiatric hospitals had few, if any, psychiatrists.…”

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Creativity is the Heart of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Smoyak¹

2015

J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv

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Editorial OLD AND NEW "P" WORDSEons ago (i.e., in the fi rst half of the past century), two "p" words were operative for those who were learning as student nurses and those who were engaged in continuing studies: principles and practices. The titles of textbooks began with principles and practices and were followed by the specialty-psychiatric nursing, medical-surgical nursing, and so on. Courses also had those labels. At the end of the last century, new "p" words emerged; they are persuasion, persistence, policy, and politics. When I am asked by lay people or students just what it is that psychiatric nurses do, I explain, "We help people to see things with new perspectives, by persuading them that these new ideas will help provide new directions for how they view the world." Importantly, symptoms can be transformed from proofs of illness to life experiences, which are not necessarily illnesses.

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“…Peplau made these earlier contacts and networks when she worked alongside psychiatrists in the 312th Station Hospital and School of Military Neuropsychiatry (Callaway, 2002).…”

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Creativity is the Heart of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Smoyak¹

2015

J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv

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“…Today, the fire at Highland Hospital has historical significance for "Ghost Hunters of Asheville," a tour company that conducts the "Haunted Montford Stroll," where the fire occurred [12] . The company officials claim that their account of the fire, in part, is based on data from the archives at Duke University and on a biography by Callaway of Peplau [13] .…”

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A historical marker in the development of critical and creative thinking in psychiatric-mental health nursing education and practice

Silverstein

2013

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Background: This investigation focuses on traumatic events of World War II and postwar reconstruction in US society in the 1940s, taking into account the development of psychiatric nursing as a specialty within the context of nursing education and practice trends. Scotomas of historic world figures, including Hildegard Peplau, renowned educator and psychiatric nurse, are examined. These blind spots profoundly affected their reactions and behaviors, for the betterment of society or the destruction of it.Method: Psychohistory looks at the "why" of historical events and is concerned with the motivation in human behavior and with the underlying meaning lurking beneath the surface of logic. In this psychohistorical exploration, figurative snapshots highlight a historical marker that commemorates a fire that blazed out of control in 1948 at Highland Hospital, a mental institution in Asheville, North Carolina, where Peplau held directorship. This fire served as a springboard for the evolution of the nurse-patient relationship within the nursing profession, as influenced by Peplau. Relevant questions explored are: What nurses were implicated in the fire? What did the characters at the scene believe and perceive? What were the motivations of key players? Who qualified as nurses? What ramifications did the fire have for nursing education and practice in the development of analytical thought and theoretical concepts?Significance: Some view the historic fire as a black mark against nursing. Nurses, however, with the assistance of Peplau's teachings, can see it as a benchmark that began the process of eradication of resistances that prevent growth and the illumination of educational curricula that promote advancement of critical and creative thinking. Today, nurses can take advantage of their knowledge base learned from the past and can create expansive innovation in nursing education and practice that is supportive of global health and safety in the 21st century.

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“…The evening seminars with Harry Stack Sullivan at Bethesda Golf & Country Club were around the fire with the Dexter Bullards' Great Dane at his feet (Callaway, 2002;p. 82).…”

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Collective biography and the legacy of Hildegard Peplau, Annie Altschul and Eileen Skellern; the origins of mental health nursing and its relevance to the current crisis in psychiatry‡

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Repper

et al. 2009

Journal of Research in Nursing

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Oral history and biographical research gathering previously unpublished material directly from Altschul and Peplau, and new commentaries on Eileen Skellern from colleagues, are triangulated to form a collective biography that accesses historical consciousness of times of great change in psychiatry. We can see core ideas about psychiatric nursing aggregated around the idea active therapeutic engagement. Peplau and Altschul were simultaneously working with innovative methods of community-based therapy during the Second World War in England with shell-shocked soldiers. Both developed founding ideologies in psychoanalysis and therapeutic community practice. A similar trajectory is apparent in the work of Eileen Skellern. User involvement and social inclusion, the corner stones of therapeutic community practice, remain intrinsic to the aspirations of psychiatry today.

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Hildegard Peplau: Psychiatric Nurse of the Century

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Creativity is the Heart of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Creativity is the Heart of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

A historical marker in the development of critical and creative thinking in psychiatric-mental health nursing education and practice

Collective biography and the legacy of Hildegard Peplau, Annie Altschul and Eileen Skellern; the origins of mental health nursing and its relevance to the current crisis in psychiatry‡

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