Abstract
THIS is an account of the results of treatment at the Cassel Hospital for Functional Nervous Disorders. The account covers twelve hundred patients. About 40 per cent of the patients reported themselves well at the end of three years, 34 per cent at the end of five years. We do not like to think that the nursing staff were meant to be neutral. An understanding nurse can do so much to help a patient; the doctor need not think he is a little tin god who gets all the patient's confidence. Nurses trained on psychological lines can be so understanding. The common-sense attitude adopted towards the much over-rated placebo, occupation therapy, is welcome.
An Enquiry into Prognosis in the Neuroses
Dr.
T. A.
Ross
By. Pp. vii + 194. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1936.) 10s. 6d. net.
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An Enquiry into Prognosis in the Neuroses. Nature 138, 743 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138743d0
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